Packages Stlink Tools

stlink-tools

Flash and debug STM32 targets through an ST-Link probe

• Version recorded: 1.8.0
• Categories: programmer
• Upstream: https://github.com/stlink-org/stlink

What it does

Four programs for ST-Link probes: st-flash writes and reads flash, st- info identifies the probe and target, st-util provides a GDB server, and st-trace reads the SWO trace pin.

Why you would want it

ST-Link probes are on the front of every Nucleo and Discovery board and cost a few pounds standalone, which makes them the default way onto an STM32. This is the lighter alternative to openocd for that one family — fewer configuration files and a faster path to a working flash command.

Before it will work

An ST-Link probe. Access comes from the programmer hardware class; the package ships rules for 11 identifiers covering the V1 through V3 probes.

How it installs

• apt: stlink-tools

Known problems

A cloned ST-Link with mismatched firmware reports a target it cannot then talk to, which reads as a broken board rather than a broken probe. st-info --probe is the first thing to run and it distinguishes the two.

STM32 devices in DFU mode present `0483:df11`, the generic STM32

bootloader identifier this catalog refuses to treat as a device — that is dfu-util's job, not this package's.

Keeping it current

• probe: apt policy
• strategy: apt_upgrade

Source: catalog/packages/stlink-tools.yaml