genio-tools 1.7.0

Tools for flashing boards using MediaTek Genio SoCs

Genio Tools

The Genio tools are a set of utilities to flash, control, and configure MediaTek boards, in particular the Genio evaluation kits.

These tools are typically used during board bring-up, firmware flashing, and system development for Genio-based platforms.

Installation

This tool depends on the fastboot utility and drivers.

Please refer to IoT Yocto Develop Guide to setup drivers and tool dependencies before installing Genio Tools.

Usage

After installation, then following command-line utilities are available:

• genio-flash
• genio-board

Below are a few common examples. For detailed options, use --help on each command or refer to the online documentation.

To flash an IoT Yocto image, unarchive the tarball first, then:

cd path/to/image/directory
genio-flash

or:

genio-flash -P path/to/image/directory

For full documentation, please refer to the IoT Yocto Develop Guide.

Release Notes

Version 1.7

Released on 2025-12-29, version 1.7 provides the following updates:

1. Support for the Genio 520 and Genio 720 SoC families.
2. Fix the failure caused by using -P and -daa in conjunction.
3. Add a timeout mechanism for multi-download scenarios.
4. Improved support for AOSP Android "RITA" images, including erasing arbitrary partitions that are not in the image list.
5. Fix out-of-order logs when launched non-interactively on Windows.

Version 1.6

Released on 2025-03-31, version 1.6 provides the following updates:

1. genio-flash --list now shows dtbo files that will be auto-loaded.
2. Add the genio-flash --unload-dtbo argument to allow disabling specific auto-load dtbo files.
3. Add support for the "RAW Image Type".

RAW Image support

If a raw_image.json is provided, the JSON file will be used as the partition file configuration.

If no JSON file is given, this image type checks a default set of image binary names. The names come from the MediaTek internal conversion tool. Refer to the document titled "Converting Android Image to RAW Image and Flashing Using Public Tool" for more details.

Version 1.5

• genio-flash now supports --daemon mode to flash multiple boards.
• New genio-multi-download-cli command to interact with the genio-flash daemon via a text-based UI.
• Add a new argument --skip-erase to genio-flash to skip erasing the storage when flashing boards.
• Support genio-board power on Windows.