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rp2xxx: Add flash support on RP2350#934

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@tact1m4n3 tact1m4n3 commented Apr 16, 2026

Previously, hal.flash didn't work on RP2350 as it tried to use the second stage bootloader for XIP setup which obviously wasn't available (this is only a RP2040 thing). Conveniently, on RP2350, the bootrom places a copy of the XIP setup function in boot ram that we can use instead.

Tested on RP2350 (arm, arm_flashless and riscv). I haven't run any tests on RP2040.

PS: I have reverted some of my changes from #705. The reason for this is that stage2_rom didn't have any guaratee for being half word aligned and jumping to it is therefore unsafe. Aligning it is not that hard (but also not trivial as @embedFile doesn't allow you to specify alignment), but I noticed that pico sdk doesn't use the second stage bootloader in flashless images so maybe it is best to do as they do it. I can re-revert this if it is not wanted.

PS_2: I might have discovered a bug in pico-sdk here. They set the thumb bit regardless of the architecture. It might not be a bug if on riscv PICO_NO_FLASH is expected to be set but idk.

Fixes #932

@mattnite mattnite force-pushed the rp2350_flash_support branch from 6bd396d to 2d45a5f Compare May 19, 2026 06:06
@mattnite mattnite merged commit beef57d into main May 19, 2026
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@mattnite mattnite deleted the rp2350_flash_support branch May 19, 2026 06:15
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Programming flash in RP2350

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