TMS320DM6467T booting problem

Alan Alor

hello

i have some issues with my board dm6467t, i use teraterm on windows xp or on linux minicom using a virtual machine on VMWare, and booted the board using NAND flash, and on the command console of the serial communication, i typed 'nand erase' in an attempt to restore uboot to its original values, but now it looks like i erased it from the NAND, and now when y try to boot it, on the console only displays BOOTME, and now i want to know how to recover it, or to loading it again, anyone who can help?

over 14 years ago

0 srirami over 14 years ago

TI__Expert 8260 points

Alan,

Looks like you erased u-boot in the NAND. You need to reprogram the u-boot using the CCS. Required Tools and Instructions are available DVSDK3.x wiki:

http://software-dl.ti.com/dsps/dsps_public_sw/sdo_sb/targetcontent/dvsdk/DVSDK_3_10/latest/index_FDS.html

In particular look at following items at above wiki to fix your problem.

"PSP_03.02_Release_Notes" (PSP Release Notes for DM6467/DM6467T)

"board-utils-dm646x.tar.gz" (Images: Serial Flash, NAND Writer and UBL Utilities for DM6467T)

Regards, Srirami.

0 Alan Alor over 14 years ago in reply to srirami

Prodigy 240 points

I followed the steps on the wiki you send me, but i get an error, and i cant move on, im here

http://arago-project.org/wiki/index.php/Setting_Up_Build_Environment

specificly in this part

Set the environment variables

$ . arago/setenv

that doenst tun in the terminal, i thought it wold be more like this ./arago/setenv, y tried that too, and nothing happened, but qhen i get to tipe the following command 
bitbake arago-base-image, first, i get a permission denied error, when i add it sudo or log as root, the following error appear



well, i figure that if i finished this i can do whats on this page
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/DM6467_EVM_Installation#Flashing_UBL_and_U-Boot_to_NAND_using_Serial_Flasher

specially the topic "Flashing UBL to NAND", if you can help i'd really appreciate it.

0 Alan Alor over 14 years ago in reply to Alan Alor

Prodigy 240 points

well, i gave up on linux and have find a more easiest way for lading uboot into my nand flash,

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/DM6467_EVM_Installation

In the section Flashing UBL and U-Boot to NAND using Serial Flasher, here it says i can load wwith the command prompt of windows, if a hace frammework 2.0, wich i have, but the problem its that there are two files i cant find in the web they are davinciUBLais.bin and u-boot.bin, u-boot.bin i dont think its a problem, because i have another file named dm6467t_495_ubl.bin, and i think i can replace it with it, but i cant find davinciUBLais.bin, if anyone know where to donwload this, id really appreciate it

0 srirami over 14 years ago in reply to Alan Alor

TI__Expert 8260 points

Are you using DM6467 EVM or DM6467T EVM? The files are different for these two different processors.

Regards, Srirami.

0 Alan Alor over 14 years ago in reply to srirami

Prodigy 240 points

I'm using dm6467t, sorry for not specifying, i'm following the instructions i told you in my last replay, and now i know i skipped a lot of steps, im currently in the

Prerequisites for Build

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/DM6467_EVM_Installation

i have alredy downloaded u-boot-git-snapshot.tar.gz

im stuck in the CROSS_COMPILE variable, i dont know where to modify it, it says that i should change it in the bash, dont know where that is, and put

"export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-"

I remember done something similar before, i changed the file .bashrc in the home directory, 
but when i follow the next instructions, like make, i doesnt create me the uboot.bin, instead
 show me the following errors

administrator@administrator:~/git$ make davinci_dm6467_evm_config
Configuring for davinci_dm6467_evm board...
administrator@administrator:~/git$ make
/bin/bash: arm-linux-gcc: command not found
Generating include/autoconf.mk
/bin/bash: line 3: arm-linux-gcc: command not found
Generating include/autoconf.mk.dep
/bin/bash: line 3: arm-linux-gcc: command not found
/bin/bash: arm-linux-gcc: command not found
for dir in tools examples/standalone examples/api ; do make -C $dir _depend ; done
make[1]: arm-linux-gcc: Command not found
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/administrator/git/tools'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/administrator/git/tools'
make[1]: arm-linux-gcc: Command not found
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/administrator/git/tools'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `_depend'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/administrator/git/tools'
make[1]: arm-linux-gcc: Command not found
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/administrator/git/examples/standalone'
/bin/sh: arm-linux-gcc: not found
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
/bin/sh: arm-linux-gcc: not found
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
/bin/sh: arm-linux-gcc: not found
/bin/sh: arm-linux-gcc: not found
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `.depend', needed by `_depend'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/administrator/git/examples/standalone'
make[1]: arm-linux-gcc: Command not found
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/administrator/git/examples/api'
/bin/sh: arm-linux-gcc: not found
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `_depend'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/administrator/git/examples/api'
make -C tools all
make[1]: arm-linux-gcc: Command not found
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/administrator/git/tools'
gcc -g -Wall -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include2 -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -I /home/administrator/git/libfdt -I /home/administrator/git/tools -DTEXT_BASE=0x81080000 -DUSE_HOSTCC -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -O -c -o mkimage.o /home/administrator/git/tools/mkimage.c
gcc -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include2 -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -I /home/administrator/git/libfdt -I /home/administrator/git/tools -DTEXT_BASE=0x81080000 -DUSE_HOSTCC -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -O -c -o crc32.o /home/administrator/git/lib_generic/crc32.c
gcc -g -Wall -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include2 -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -I /home/administrator/git/libfdt -I /home/administrator/git/tools -DTEXT_BASE=0x81080000 -DUSE_HOSTCC -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -O -c -o image.o /home/administrator/git/common/image.c
gcc -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include2 -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -I /home/administrator/git/libfdt -I /home/administrator/git/tools -DTEXT_BASE=0x81080000 -DUSE_HOSTCC -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -O -c -o md5.o /home/administrator/git/lib_generic/md5.c
gcc -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include2 -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -I /home/administrator/git/libfdt -I /home/administrator/git/tools -DTEXT_BASE=0x81080000 -DUSE_HOSTCC -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -O -c -o sha1.o /home/administrator/git/lib_generic/sha1.c
gcc -g -Wall -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include2 -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -I /home/administrator/git/libfdt -I /home/administrator/git/tools -DTEXT_BASE=0x81080000 -DUSE_HOSTCC -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -O -c -o fdt.o /home/administrator/git/libfdt/fdt.c
gcc -g -Wall -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include2 -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -I /home/administrator/git/libfdt -I /home/administrator/git/tools -DTEXT_BASE=0x81080000 -DUSE_HOSTCC -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -O -c -o fdt_ro.o /home/administrator/git/libfdt/fdt_ro.c
gcc -g -Wall -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include2 -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -I /home/administrator/git/libfdt -I /home/administrator/git/tools -DTEXT_BASE=0x81080000 -DUSE_HOSTCC -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -O -c -o fdt_rw.o /home/administrator/git/libfdt/fdt_rw.c
gcc -g -Wall -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include2 -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -I /home/administrator/git/libfdt -I /home/administrator/git/tools -DTEXT_BASE=0x81080000 -DUSE_HOSTCC -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -O -c -o fdt_strerror.o /home/administrator/git/libfdt/fdt_strerror.c
gcc -g -Wall -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include2 -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -I /home/administrator/git/libfdt -I /home/administrator/git/tools -DTEXT_BASE=0x81080000 -DUSE_HOSTCC -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -O -c -o fdt_wip.o /home/administrator/git/libfdt/fdt_wip.c
gcc -g -Wall -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include2 -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -I /home/administrator/git/libfdt -I /home/administrator/git/tools -DTEXT_BASE=0x81080000 -DUSE_HOSTCC -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -O -c -o os_support.o /home/administrator/git/tools/os_support.c
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include2 -idirafter /home/administrator/git/include -I /home/administrator/git/libfdt -I /home/administrator/git/tools -DTEXT_BASE=0x81080000 -DUSE_HOSTCC -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -O  -o mkimage mkimage.o crc32.o image.o md5.o sha1.o fdt.o fdt_ro.o fdt_rw.o fdt_strerror.o fdt_wip.o os_support.o
strip mkimage
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/administrator/git/tools'
make -C examples/standalone all
make[1]: arm-linux-gcc: Command not found
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/administrator/git/examples/standalone'
/bin/sh: arm-linux-gcc: not found
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
/bin/sh: arm-linux-gcc: not found
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
arm-linux-gcc  -g  -Os   -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 -msoft-float  -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8 -msoft-float  -D__KERNEL__ -DTEXT_BASE=0x81080000 -I/home/administrator/git/include -fno-builtin -ffreestanding -nostdinc -isystem  -pipe  -DCONFIG_ARM -D__ARM__         -march=armv5te -march=armv5te -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes    -o hello_world.o hello_world.c -c
make[1]: arm-linux-gcc: Command not found
make[1]: *** [hello_world.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/administrator/git/examples/standalone'
make: *** [examples/standalone] Error 2

before, it also says that i should go to the uboot root directory, i supossed, it was the git 
directory wich was created after i uncompressed the u-boot-dm646x.tar.gz, so... yeah, 
i know that i have a lot of doubts, sorry, if you could help, id really appreciate it

0 Alan Alor over 14 years ago in reply to Alan Alor

Prodigy 240 points

well, i managed to buil uboot.bin, how, i just set the crooscompiler variable in the file .bashrc in the home directory, and added in this variable, the path of my compiler, in my case were export CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/arm-2009ql/arm-none-gnuebi/bin, its not exactly how i put it, but its pretty similar, in the following link are the steps i used to do that

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/DM6467_EVM_Installation#Flashing_UBL_to_NAND

i was stucked in Building U-Boot, but now i finally created the image, and now im in the step Flashing UBL and U-Boot to NAND using Serial Flasher, because i succesfully created the uboot.bin and davinciUBLais.bin, and alredy have the sfh_DM646x.exe, this was a tool that comed with the board-utilities-dm646x.rar. Ok, so i typed sfh_DM646x.exe -p COM1 -nandflash -UBLStartAddr 0x20 davinciUBLais.bin u-boot.bin
in wondows command promt and after it finishes it displays only BOOTME at the end, i closed the prompt and now switched SW3[0-3]:1110, then opened terater, and connected it via UART mode, and the following message displays in the window

Booting PSP Boot Loader

Starting NAND Copy

NAND Boot failed. Starting UART
BOOTPSP

0 Alan Alor over 14 years ago in reply to Alan Alor

Prodigy 240 points

well, i loaded it again, i typed sfh_DM646x.exe -p COM1 -nandflash -UBLStartAddr 0x20 davinciUBLais.bin u-boot.bin, in the command prompt again, hoping things will go well this time, this time it didnt get me the bootme message in the prompt, in fact, it said that it was succesfully write, but qhen i change to nand boot mode, in tereterm it displays another message, trying to load but never advancing, i got a print of it

and it stays there, dont know the problem, ill kepp looking for a solution, but if anyone know, my hears are open

0 Prateek Bansal over 14 years ago in reply to Alan Alor

TI__Expert 4510 points

Do you have Code Composer Studio and emulator to connect to board? If so, I would recommend following instructions below to flash it.
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/DM6467_EVM_Installation#Flashing_UBL_and.2For_U-Boot

Prateek

0 Alan Alor over 14 years ago in reply to Prateek Bansal

Prodigy 240 points

thanks pal, for the reply, actually the page you sent me, was the one i was following, and the problems i get were from getting the steps done

Yes, i have code composer, but cant configure the target to boot from UART mode, the only emulator i know is the USB emulator, and i think thats to work with the JTAG, and i dont have it, in the wiki they says i can connect it tru serial mode, but doenst say how, and i gave up trying, because im not gonna use code composer to work with the board.

thankfully i finally get to connect to the evm, thanks anyway for th reply, this are the steps i followed to recover uboot

http://e2e.ti.com/support/dsp/davinci_digital_media_processors/f/99/t/132557.aspx

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