Usb hub stalls when asking for descriptors - usb

I have started with an Atmel Start project:
My goal is to have a usb hub connected to this demo board:
SAM V71 Xplained Ultra Evaluation Kit
The problem is atmel doesn't supply a hub driver, and they haven't responded to our questions about this. So I have been attempting to write one based upon the msc and other drivers they do provide.
Currently I'm having an issue when I connect the USB hub. It is returning a STALL when I send a GET_DESCRIPTOR request with the type DEVICE. This seems odd to me because other USB devices such as a flash drive or USB to serial converter do not reply STALL to the same request. In fact the Flash drive goes through the entire enumeration process and msc installation so that I can successfully read and write to the drive.
I am detecting the stall via a single break point set in the STALL handling section of the pipe handler.
I have been reading the Universal Serial Bus
Specification Rev 2.0 but I can't find any differences between the way to read descriptors from hubs vs other devices. And I don't understand why a STALL would ever be sent in reply to a GET_DESCRIPTOR request.
Thanks

Just in case this is useful for anyone else. The issue I was having was apparently caused by the compiler optimization settings. Specifically I had change this setting to: "None (-O0)", after changing this back to the default I have had no problems enumerating USB devices. Picture of Optimization configuration
My colleague discovered this because of a seemingly unrelated problem which was causing Hard faults and Bus faults on the chip, these were also fixed by switching back to -O1. It seems -O0 needs to be used with a grain a salt or not at all on this chip.

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Is it possible program STM32 device wireless?

I have an STM32-discovery board and I am trying to program it with not using any cables.In the place where I am doing my internship, they first wanted me to program STM32-discovery with UART. I was able to do this by making the necessary connections and using the Flash loader demo. Now my next task is to add an ESP-07 wifi module on the STM32-discovery board, connect this module to the same network as my computer, and wirelessly program it from my computer. No other device is wanted in between (like Raspberry). I did some research on this topic but couldn't come to a conclusion. What I found; I can remote program by connecting the card to a Raspberry or a device called Codegrip. Is it possible to do this with only an ESP-07 without these devices? I will be glad if you just tell me what should I look for.
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opened the UART port,
received the new program data via the UART (using some protocol),
and then programmed that new data onto the flash.
To do likewise wirelessly, the STM32 will need to be running a program that:
opens the Wi-Fi port,
receives the new program data via Wi-Fi (using some protocol),
and then programs that new data onto the flash.
You may have used the STM32 internal ROM bootloader to reprogram via the UART. And if so then you used the protocol required by that ROM bootloader. But the ROM bootloader probably does not support Wi-Fi. So you'll probably be creating your own bootloader program that can communicate over Wi-Fi. And you might be defining your own protocol for transferring the program data over Wi-Fi. Or maybe you can apply some established protocol such as FTP. Search for examples of bootloaders that support OTA (over the air) firmware updates.
There are two possible solutions.
Write a custom bootloader for the STM32 - the flash is organised with smaller blocks at the start to support that, so you would move your application to higher memory and have the bootloader either jump to the application to load a new application. The bootloader can then access the Wi-Fi module (and other interfaces) to get updates.
Write custom firmware for the ESP0-07 so that it receives and stores the STM32 image, then transfers it to the STM32 using the existing ROM serial bootloader. In this case you need the details of the bootloader protocol, and it would be useful if the ESP-07 had a GPIO connection to the STM32 reset line so that it can invoke the bootloader without a manual reset.
Either way, you need to write software for one or other of the devices.
You can use any standard bootloader and connect the Wireless module like ESP32 (Bluetooth and Wifi), ESP8266 (Bluetooth and Wifi), BT-05 (Bluetooth), HM-10 (Bluetooth), etc.
Then create the android application or web application and update the Firmware or application.
If you don't want to use the Standard Bootloader, you can implement your own bootloader and add this OTA feature to that.
We have added the Tutorials step by step. Please refer to this if you get time. There we have developed the custom bootloader and updated the Firmware.

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I have tried using Devcon, although the device was disabled, power was still provided to the device.
I have also tried to disable the USB root hubs ,that also didn't work.
I have read some other posts indicating that a SSR could be used, this option is not desired. I would rather choose the software solution(if there is one of course).
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