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Don't miss out! Join us at the next Open Source Summit in Seoul, South Korea (November 4-5). Join us at the premier vendor-neutral open source conference, where developers and technologists come together to collaborate, share knowledge, and explore the latest innovations and advancements in open source technology. Learn more at https://events.linuxfoundation.org/ Snag It, Flash It, Ship It: Rethinking Factory Flashing With Open Tools - Romain Gantois, Bootlin & Paresh Bhagat, Texas Instruments Factory flashing is a critical stage in the lifecycle of any embedded product. It can quickly become a bottleneck in the supply chain, and its correct execution is essential to ensure that shipped devices are both fully functional and secure. Today’s available tools are often closed-source and tightly coupled to specific vendors, limiting flexibility and making customization difficult. In 2023, Bootlin introduced Snagboot—an open-source, vendor-agnostic tool designed for recovering and reflashing embedded platforms. Building on this foundation, Bootlin and Texas Instruments collaborated in 2024 to expand Snagboot into a comprehensive factory flashing solution, maintaining its open-source and vendor-neutral nature. In this talk, we’ll present Snagboot as a recovery and reflashing solution, highlighting its core tools, snagrecover and snagflash. We’ll then dive into the unique challenges of factory flashing and explain how our extended toolset—Snagfactory—addresses them effectively.