"Waiting for SFT on the OMAP-L138"

Chris Gray

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: OMAP-L138

I have a TI1808 board running quite well, I use AISGen.exe and UART Boot Host for flashing. I'm booting into UBoot and then into Linux. Neither of those programs were modified in any way, obviously I did have to configure AISGen with appropriate settings for DRAM

I'm hoping to move to a command line flashing utility and see references to sfh_OMAP_L138.exe

When I run sfh_OMAP_L138.exe it gets stuck at "Waiting for SFT on the OMAP-L138", a quick websearch results in a number of hits - but nothing that I can digest

I'm hoping to understand whats going on when this happens, can I assume that sfh_OMAP_L138.exe needs to run out of DRAM in order to erase/flash SPI memory?

if so where does it get the various configuration values? I've read that I may need to rebuild sfh_OMAP_L138? doing this looked very confusing, requiring a number of installs, the documentaton seems years out of date

any tips? I'm hoping to find something super simple, that runs from the command line, for flashing and erasing SPI memory

thanks!

over 12 years ago

0 Chris Gray over 12 years ago

Intellectual 365 points

for what it's worth I was successful in modifying the various DRAM/clock values and was able to rebuild sfh_OMAL_L138.exe and slh_OMAP_L138.exe

slh_OMAP_L138.exe even works, I'm able to push an image to my device

(I'm able to build and modify the tools), it's still stuck on 'Waiting for SFT on the OMAL-L138", I'm not sure what the means (or how to fix it)?

thanks!

0 Rahul Prabhu over 12 years ago in reply to Chris Gray

TI__Guru** 116170 points

Chris,

Did you make all the modifications mentioned here:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Serial_Boot_and_Flash_Loading_Utility_for_OMAP-L138#Modifications_for_Custom_Boards

That message generally indicates the sft or the flashing program that run on the target wasn`t loaded in the external memory correctly. Does size of your external memory match that of the EVM? Are sure you have accounted for all the chnages corresponding to SDRAM and your flash memory?

Regards,

Rahul

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