Splitting program locations in flash

[cald0s]

Hi all, this is a little tricky to explain, but my motivation is:

When I add wifi components to my project, the code size grows quite large and flashing takes a minute, instead of seconds. However the wifi addition is now completed, I will only need exactly what I have, so to me it seems reasonable to load these components into a separate partition in flash, so that I only need to flash this once.

This would allow me to update the application code without having to also flash the wifi components.

Is such a thing possible with ESP-IDF, or could it ever be?

[ESP_Sprite]

Not what you are asking about, but you know you can increase the serial speed during flashing? It's a menuconfig option, or you can do it on the commandline with e.g. 'idf.py flash -b 1000000' or 'make ESP_BAUD=1000000 flash'.

[cald0s]

I had tried to set the flasher via menuconfig to use QIO as I figured this would be faster, but I am also using the vscode plugin and I can see in the console output that it is still using DIO.

I will give your option a go too, thank you.

For anyone not understanding, this may help

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[cald0s]

Not what you are asking about, but you know you can increase the serial speed during flashing? It's a menuconfig option, or you can do it on the commandline with e.g. 'idf.py flash -b 1000000' or 'make ESP_BAUD=1000000 flash'.

Thanks, this helped a lot and cut down a 1MB flash that took 60 seconds, to 7 seconds.
I use the vscode extension and found that the flash speed is not easily configured, maybe it needs to be added to the sdkconfig
https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp ... issues/207