It appears this issue is not resolved as of 3.6.

Can we expect this to be addressed (announced "next week" 3 years ago)...?

Yeah, IO8 is high, and IO9 can be left floating or brought low for download mode.

When IO9 is left floating for normal bootup, I get the infinite cycle above. If I try holding IO9 low, the cycle doesn't happen, but I am also not prompted with "download mode", just no text response.

After uploading code to an ESP32-C6 (which should have worked), I am stuck with the chip repeating the following messages. Holding IO9 low (and IO8 is pulled high) stops the messages but I don't see the "awaiting download" message. Trying to connect to the chip through USB-JTAG just fails now. Is th...

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Turns out to have been a very mundane issue. The part making the connection to the serial / jtag pads on the board, while appearing OK, was not making good enough a connection.

Hello, I have a custom board with footprints broken out for VCC, GND, TX, RX, along with USB-JTAG IO12 and IO13. The setup: * ESP32-C6-M1 dev board ( https://espressif-docs.readthedocs-hosted.com/projects/esp-dev-kits/en/latest/_static/esp32-c6-devkitm-1/schematics/esp32-c6-devkitm-1-schematics.pdf ...