CCS/AM6548: QSPI programming

Florin Gherghinis

Intellectual 430 points

Part Number: AM6548
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: UNIFLASH

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

Hi trying to load a boot and APP image via JTAG to SoC (AM6548) to QSPI

I need to understand how can I load the Image to QSPI (for boot and app) for the first time ...

Can someone please guide me in the right direction?

I know the TI EVM has OSPI and the previous post is stating that TI will develop a driver for QSPI - any status?

Linux OS, SDK 06.00.00.07

Please advise!

over 5 years ago

0 Biser Gatchev-XID over 5 years ago

TI__Guru**** 393215 points

Please clarify if the AM65x is running Linux or RTOS?

0 Florin Gherghinis over 5 years ago in reply to Biser Gatchev-XID

Intellectual 430 points

Hi we are running Linux OS ( ubuntu 18.04)

0 Biser Gatchev-XID over 5 years ago in reply to Florin Gherghinis

TI__Guru**** 393215 points

I am asking what OS you are running on the AM65x, not on your Host PC.

0 Florin Gherghinis over 5 years ago in reply to Biser Gatchev-XID

Intellectual 430 points

linux on the AM65xx too!

Thank you for your efforts!

0 Krunal Bhargav34 over 5 years ago in reply to Florin Gherghinis

TI__Mastermind 41005 points

Hello,

Is it possible for you to boot from a SD card and program the QSPI using the OSPI instructions mentioned in the following document? Also please refer to the file <u_boot>/drivers/mtd/spi/spi-nor-ids.c file to see the list of supported Flash IDs and make sure the CONFIG option for your flash device is enabled.

Regards,
Krunal

0 Florin Gherghinis over 5 years ago in reply to Krunal Bhargav34

Intellectual 430 points

For the EVM we can do SD card boot but it will not help us because the Custom H/W platform does not support SD boot.

I was guided to this material by TI field ENG

http://software-dl.ti.com/processor-sdk-rtos/esd/docs/latest/rtos/index_board.html#programming-flashwriter-on-am65xx-platform

section 3.5.1.7

If you have feed back about this procedure, please do share !

0 Florin Gherghinis over 5 years ago in reply to Florin Gherghinis

Intellectual 430 points

So i have a issues with the Flash Writer instructions.

Launch and setup CCS for AM65xx to configure DDR and load the DMSC firmware. Refer below link for detailed instructions http://software-dl.ti.com/processor-sdk-rtos/esd/docs/latest/rtos/How_to_Guides.html#ccs-host-setup
Connect the USB cable between USB2UART port (J42) of the board and host PC
Configure the board to “no boot” mode
Configure the serial console application on host PC to connect to MAIN UART0 port. Connect to the first COM port out of four COM ports detected.
Launch target config file for AM65xx platform and connect to A53 core.
Load the flash writer binary <path_to_the_uniflash>/processors/FlashWriter/am65xx_evm/uart_am65xx_evm_flash_programmer.out to A53 core.
Run the program and confirm that character ‘C’ is getting printed on the host PC serial console. Make a note of the COM port number.

I don't get the C output !

I have tried all ports, I assume the baud rate is 115200 !

I do not get any errors either !

Please advise!

0 Barend Ungrodt over 5 years ago in reply to Florin Gherghinis

TI__Intellectual 1420 points

Hi All,

To resolve Florin's issue, we had to use Uniflash version 4.5, no other version of Uniflash we tried worked, and even then we could only successfully load a program using a Windows machine, with Ubuntu failing to complete the dslite command.

I will start a new thread regarding the new issues.

Thanks,
Barend

0 Florin Gherghinis over 5 years ago in reply to Florin Gherghinis

Intellectual 430 points

UPDATE:

So I have tried uniflash 5.1 and it didn't work!

But I tried uniflash version 4.5 and it did (4.6 doesn't work either)

Now I am getting the C output on the serial terminal.

Doing the Erase flash command:

For Linux

# cd <path_to_the_uniflash>
# sudo ./dslite.sh --mode processors -c <COM_Port> -e <Erase_Length_in_bytes> -d <device_type> -o <Erase_Offset>
Example:
# sudo ./dslite.sh  --mode processors -c /dev/ttyUSB1 -e 10000 -d 1 -o 20000

Nothing happens and it gets stuck @ "Transfering Header information.." 

Coworkers using windows platforms were able to complete the process... Exactly the same procedure and steps- commands are different ...
So why doe it not work on a linux Ubuntu 18.04 platform ...?
Please advise!

0 Krunal Bhargav34 over 5 years ago in reply to Florin Gherghinis

TI__Mastermind 41005 points

Hello,

We will be addressing the flashwriter issues on the following thread: https://e2e.ti.com/support/processors/f/791/t/847047.

Regards,
Krunal

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