Hi,
I have spent quite a significant amount of time to figure out how and then write a simple bootloader for MSP430F5529 that I would like to share with you.
It was written for mspgcc (4.6.3) and uses small memory model; for accessing high flash (20-bit addressed) I use some simple assembler inlines. It won't work out of the box in CCS.
This project is fully functional and I use it to remotely reflash my weather station (https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/102121325118286323880/albums/5936572393229426625?authkey=CJ3N8Y2CtJiOIQ). I just push the new application image onto the web server, then the application working on the target device downloads it, parses and puts onto the flash and then lets the bootloader to the rest.
The methods used for reflashing are kinda primitive (e.g. word access, while the block write would be way more efficient), anyway, I had to have this up and running in reasonable time.
I think making the code CCS-compatibile is not a big deal, the main part is flash access enclosed in flash.c. Moving code to RAM is even simpler in CCS with LOAD and RUN directives.
Anyway, any issue reports and comments are welcome!
repo url: https://bitbucket.org/tlorek/msp430bootloader
Best Regards,
Tomek