""" mbed SDK Copyright (c) 2011-2013 ARM Limited Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. http://www.nxp.com/documents/user_manual/UM10360.pdf 32.3.1.1 Criterion for Valid User Code The reserved Cortex-M3 exception vector location 7 (offset 0x1C in the vector table) should contain the 2's complement of the check-sum of table entries 0 through 6. This causes the checksum of the first 8 table entries to be 0. The boot loader code checksums the first 8 locations in sector 0 of the flash. If the result is 0, then execution control is transferred to the user code. """ from struct import unpack, pack def patch(bin_path): with open(bin_path, 'r+b') as bin: # Read entries 0 through 6 (Little Endian 32bits words) vector = [unpack('