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UNIFLASH: Uniflash on Mac M1

UNIFLASH: does not work with Apple M1 Chips

SPEEDBIRD
Intellectual 721 points

Part Number: UNIFLASH

Hi everyone, 

I know TI does not officially support Apple M1 Chips, but up to now CCS V11 works quite well with the M1. On the other hand, the UI of Uniflash does not work at all and is stuck "detecting devices". I tried installing Uniflash on parallels (Windows VM on Mac) and experienced similar issues.

When will TI officially support apples M1 Chips? Are there any workarounds to get Uniflash running? Is it possible to "use" Uniflash via the Terminal and skip the UI?

It would be very helpful and in my opinion crucial for TI to support M1 or in general arm based chips. It's almost impossible to nowadays get a MacOS System without the M1...

Thanks again :)

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    TI__Guru**** 163015 points

    SPEEDBIRD,

    There is an M1 specific issue I am aware of where Monterey introduced an issue that breaks the M1 support in our installers for CCS and UniFlash. To workaround that you have to open the installer and run the x86 runtime.

    I think I see the issue you are seeing.  I normally only run CCS on my M1 machine.  I just installed UniFlash 7 (using the workaround above).  When the UI comes up I see "Loading device list" for a very long time.  I honestly thought it was hung and started responding here.  Eventually it did finish.  Once it finished even the auto-detect of LaunchPads is working.

    I closed UniFlash and I see the same thing again with the long delay.

    I gave the cloud version a try (from dev.ti.com).  It does not have the issue.  If you haven't used the cloud version in a while it will prompt you to install an updated cloud agent but once that was done it worked for me.  So you could use that for now.

    I will file a bug to track the issue with the desktop version. 

    Regards,

    John

  • 0 in reply to JohnS
    Intellectual 721 points

    Thanks John! 

    I totally forgot the Cloud Solutions TI offers... UniFlash via the Cloud works great!.

    You seem to be correct. I thought UniFlash was not working... It actually does work, just the "first" process while scanning devices takes forever. 

    I do have one more question, when I use UniFlash through the Cloud and want to flash a targeted device with a new firmware. Does it physically upload the firmware to TI servers? 

    Regards,

    SPEEDBIRD

  • +1 in reply to SPEEDBIRD
    TI__Guru**** 163015 points

    SPEEDBIRD,

    It does upload the image to the cloud into your personal cloud workspace.  It is possible to delete the file from your workspace.

    If you click on the box where you select the image to flash you can see the images that are in your workspace and delete them.

    Regards,

    John