SPI1 Flash in AM1808

vipul mahajan

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Hello,

I am new to flashing of ARM devices and I want to flash my demo code in SPI1 flash. I have .bin file available with me. I don't want U-boot or UBL. I tried using "sfh_OMAP-L138.exe -targetType AM1808 -flash_noubl uart_test-ais" but got the following error.

-----------------------------------------------------
   TI Serial Flasher Host Program for OMAP-L138
   (C) 2010, Texas Instruments, Inc.
   Ver. 1.67
-----------------------------------------------------


Platform is Windows.
      [TYPE] Single boot image
[BOOT IMAGE] uart_test-ais
    [TARGET] AM1808
    [DEVICE] SPI_MEM

Attempting to connect to device COM1...
Press any key to end this program at any time.

(AIS Parse): Read magic word 0x41504954.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for BOOTME... (power on or reset target now)
(Serial Port): Read error! (The operation has timed out.)
(Serial Port): Read error! (The operation has timed out.)

I followed the following steps:

1) Set the boot pins to UART2 boot mode.

2) Connect a serial cable from the host computer to the OMAP-L138 EVM

3) Open a command prompt on the host computer and change directory to where the SFH executable is located.

4) Run the flashing utility with this command:

 ..\OMAP-L138\gnu\sfh_OMAP-L138.exe [options]

5) Turn on the board When instructed.

over 13 years ago

0 vipul mahajan over 13 years ago

Intellectual 900 points

I was successful to some extend but now receiving the output


C:\Documents and Settings\admin>sfh_OMAP-L138.exe -targetType AM1808 -appStartAd
dr 0x0 -appLoadAddr 0x0 -flash_noubl uart-boot-ais
-----------------------------------------------------
   TI Serial Flasher Host Program for OMAP-L138
   (C) 2010, Texas Instruments, Inc.
   Ver. 1.67
-----------------------------------------------------


Platform is Windows.
      [TYPE] Single boot image
[BOOT IMAGE] uart-boot-ais
    [TARGET] AM1808
    [DEVICE] SPI_MEM

Attempting to connect to device COM1...
Press any key to end this program at any time.

(AIS Parse): Read magic word 0x41504954.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for BOOTME... (power on or reset target now)
(AIS Parse): BOOTME received!
(AIS Parse): Performing Start-Word Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing Ping Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Processing command 0: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 8648-Byte section to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 1: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 776-Byte section to address 0x800021C8.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 2: 0x58535906.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing jump and close...
(AIS Parse): AIS complete. Jump to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for DONE...
(AIS Parse): Boot completed successfully.

Waiting for SFT on the OMAP-L138...
File uart-boot-ais is not present.


Interfacing to the OMAP-L138 via UART failed.
Please reset or power-cycle the board and try again...

C:\Documents and Settings\admin>

The binary file just contain the bin form(generated using AIS ) of  UART test code. Is u-boot necessary for it?

0 Daniel Allred over 13 years ago in reply to vipul mahajan

TI__Genius 17355 points

Are you sure the referenced file is there in the local directory? Is it called uart-boot-ais? or maybe you meant uart-boot.ais

Regards, Daniel

0 vipul mahajan over 13 years ago in reply to Daniel Allred

Intellectual 900 points

Daniel,

Yes the file "uart-boot-ais" is in local directory only.

0 vipul mahajan over 13 years ago in reply to vipul mahajan

Intellectual 900 points

The problem got resolved by following steps in

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Quick_Start_Guide_StarterWare_01.00.XX.XX_(supports_AM1808)

but it worked for SPI flash only. When I tried the same on NAND (changing -flashTarget to NAND) it didn't responded as expected.

Is there any other way to flash NAND?

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