sys-usb && flashing (arduino and others)

[haaber]

Dear all,

on a standard linux distro, flashing microcontrollers like arduino,
esp32, and many others  is quite straightforward.  Of course I may
mimick this on qubes: create a "flash" qube, give it acces rights to USB
controller, run alternatively sys-usb  or "flash" and flash as I would
on any other linux distro.

However I wonder what  would be the best "qubes way" to do it. I imagine
leaving sys-usb as it is (only qubes with HW access) and "forwarding"
data stream from a "flash" qube to sys-usb. One point here is that in
contrast with harddrives, mouses, keyboards etc these chips are usually
"silent": when you plug them on usb they do not communicate (they only
take power). Therfore  the "attach XXX" to qube YYY menu will not be
click-able, so I might need to do all "by hand" in a dom0  terminal?

Maybe some of you have already solved this question before me?


best, Bernhard