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RE: Assabet flash problem
- To: Gary Thomas <gthomas at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Assabet flash problem
- From: Nicolas Pitre <nico at cam dot org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:04:52 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Gary Thomas wrote:
>
> On 01-Jun-2001 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >
> > I have an Assabet for which the precompiled Redboot binary from current CVS
> > seems to work just fine. It is just a bit outdated compared to the current
> > state of the source, but still it works.
> >
> > However if I recompile redboot myself, the resulting binary just doesn't
> > want to recognize the flash on the board anymore:
> >
> >|Can't identify FLASH, sorry, man b0, dev d0, id [QRY.] stat 0
> >|00018780: B0D0 0002 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 |................|
> >|00018790: 5152 5901 0031 0000 0000 0030 5530 5503 |QRY..1.....0U0U.|
> >|000187A0: 060A 0F04 0404 0415 0200 0500 011F 0000 |................|
> >|000187B0: 0150 5249 |.PRI |
> >|FLASH: driver init failed!, status: 0x8
> >
> > Since it worked with older version of Redboot I guess the problem should be
> > quite dumb and someone will tell me the quick trick without me having to
> > dive deep into the code... Right? :-)
>
> Actually, we've completely restructured the Flash drivers in the meantime :-)
> I'm sure that the differences are in here.
>
> Look in the file "devs/flash/intel/strata/current/src/strata.c". Just to see
> if everything else works, try changing the line which reads
> if ( (qp->manuf_code == FLASH_Intel_code)
> to
> if ( 1
That worked.
> If that works, then you could try this (take the other change out).
> In the file "devs/flash/intel/strata/current/src/flash_query.c", change the
> macro CNT to be a larger number.
That didn't, even with a 5 sec delay.
I also tried to define CYGOPT_FLASH_IS_BOOTBLOCK as mentionned in another
post but then it didn't compile anymore.
I guess I'll have to dig it...
> Note 3: The latest Assabet RedBoot code does handle Linux boot in the same
> way as on the iPAQ.
Guess why I want to recompile it? ;-)
Nicolas