ESP32 BAUD Rate - a question of speed.

[mnfisher]

Programming the ESP32 in a code - program - test loop is fairly slow. The 'test' program I am using takes 38.4 seconds to
upload (the compilation time if sdkconfig is changed is several minutes )

So I tried to change the BAUD rate - in theory is should work at 921600 - but I didn't achieve that.

However, I did manage 460800 (upload 9.9s):

I didn't manage to find the correct setting in sdkconfig (though it is surely there - various values just resulted in them changing back..)

So I tweaked esptool.py (in D:\esp-idf\components\esptool_py\esptool on my machine)

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    def _set_port_baudrate(self, baud):
        try:
            self._port.baudrate = baud
        except IOError:

I changed to

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    def _set_port_baudrate(self, baud):
        try:
            self._port.baudrate = baud * 4    // Set the speed to 4 * requested :-) 
        except IOError:

This sets the baud rate to 4 * the specified rate and gives the (much reduced) faster load times.

In theory - it should be possible to go to x8 - my laptop couldn't handle this however.. It should be possible to set the rate without the 'tweak' I used....

I get the message

Features: WiFi, BT, Dual Core, 240MHz, VRef calibration in efuse, Coding Scheme None
WARNING: Detected crystal freq 41.47MHz is quite different to normalized freq 40MHz. Unsupported crystal in use?

Which might explain some of the problems with faster speeds?

Martin