Hello,
I posted earlier about getting uboot up and running on the leopardboard using RidgeRun SDK. I have successfully loaded uboot! Thanks!
But, now I am attempting to launch the RidgeRun linux SDK. I am able to communicate to the leopardboard with the 'sudo make install' and other commands. The problem I am seeing is that the kernel is not being correctly loaded into NAND flash. I believe the 'nand erase' is not working properly.
I am able to go to the uboot prompt and type 'nand erase KERNEL' and then dump the memory location 'md KERNEL' and the memory is not FF's...
Are there any issues with 'nand erase' ??
Here is some useful info:
Here is the output of the 'sudo make installkernel':
tliebau@baboon:~/DM355SDK738407/logs$ cat install.logdummy_commandUnknown command 'dummy_command' - try 'help'Leopard Board # nand infoDevice 0: NAND 256MiB 3,3V 8-bit, sector size 128 KiBLeopard Board # printenv mtdpartsmtdparts=mtdparts=nand_davinci.0:4096k(UBOOT),128k(UBOOT_ENV),3200k(KERNEL),20480k(FS)Leopard Board # printenv kernelmd5sumkernelmd5sum=e8f53d57c9820c154dca146232b057ceLeopard Board # nand erase KERNELNAND erase: device 0 offset 0x420000, size 0x320000Erasing at 0x720000 -- 100% complete.OKLeopard Board # nand write 0x82000000 KERNEL 2A0000NAND write: device 0 offset 0x420000, size 0x2a0000 2752512 bytes written: OKLeopard Board # setenv kernelloadaddr 0x82000000Leopard Board # setenv kernelsaveaddr 0x420000Leopard Board # setenv kerneloffset 0x420000Leopard Board # setenv ksize 0x2A0000Leopard Board # setenv kernelmd5sum e8f53d57c9820c154dca146232b057ceLeopard Board # saveenvSaving Environment to NAND...Erasing Nand...Writing to Nand... doneLeopard Board #
Leopard Board # mtdpartsdevice nand0 <nand_davinci.0>, # parts = 4 #: name size offset mask_flags 0: UBOOT 0x00400000 0x00000000 0 1: UBOOT_ENV 0x00020000 0x00400000 0 2: KERNEL 0x00320000 0x00420000 0 3: FS 0x01400000 0x00740000 0active partition: nand0,0 - (UBOOT) 0x00400000 @ 0x00000000defaults:mtdids : nand0=nand_davinci.0mtdparts: mtdparts=nand_davinci.0:640k(UBOOT),128k(UBOOT_ENV),896k(SPLASH),3200k(KERNEL),15m(FS)Leopard Board #
Got it! :-)
The script for 'make installkernel' does not have a 'nand unlock' command. Debugged from uboot prompt doing all these steps...unlocked, downloaded kernel image, wrote to nand...rebooted and I see the kernel! Now...I have to get the file system up... :-/
tliebau,
I added
send_uboot_cmd("nand unlock $KERNEL_LOAD_ADDRESS $KSIZE_ALIGNED\n"); right after nand_write command in the save_kernel after line 738,
however it didn't work for me.
Also tried
# nand unlock 0x00420000 340000
to unlock the area where kernel is written after running $make installkernel on the ubuntu.
Your posts are very informative,
and It'd be great if I'm able to load and run the SDK kernel image.
Thanks
tunca
ps: editted to add nand unlock on the u-boot command prompt
The ridgerun blog says something about "No support for NAND flashing from uboot. Recommended boot modes are NFS and SD card."
www.ridgerun.com/blog
-chris