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From 07/10/2014 to 08/08/2014

07/14/2014

JC 09:43 AM Software Development: RE: SPI clock issues with using newest u-boot
Yeah by using the ti_ 335x include files I was hoping to greatly simplify our config file. Hopefully it hasn't caused more confusion then it needed to. Jonathan Cormier
09:31 AM Software Development: RE: SPI clock issues with using newest u-boot
Ok,
I knew it had to be in there somewhere, was just a bit confused
as the original mityarm335x.h had a nice section in the file for all
that.
Thanks,
John C.
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JC 09:26 AM Software Development: RE: SPI clock issues with using newest u-boot
Pretty sure I found "#define CONFIG_SPI" in one of the ti_ config files that get included. Jonathan Cormier
09:25 AM Software Development: RE: SPI clock issues with using newest u-boot
Yes the Micron N25Q00AA does support the 48Mhz clock. The sf erase still seems longer
but I'll need to time it get get more specific. I did notice that the mityarm335x.h
file was missing "#define CONFIG_SPI" as I though it was needed ...
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07/11/2014

JC 05:26 PM Software Development: RE: SPI clock issues with using newest u-boot
Also make sure your Nor chip supports 48Mhz on the spi bus. Jonathan Cormier
JC 05:25 PM Software Development: RE: SPI clock issues with using newest u-boot
Did you notice any time difference with the slower speed? Jonathan Cormier
03:30 PM Software Development: RE: SPI clock issues with using newest u-boot
I took out the CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_BAR define and it now seem to pass the long erase command.
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U-Boot# sf probe 0:0
SF: Detected N25Q1024 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 128 MiB
SF:...
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JC 02:23 PM Software Development: RE: SPI clock issues with using newest u-boot
It may be perfectly fine with the generic name then.
Try changing the spi clock speed and see if you get different results. I found with the nor on our SoM the erase seemed faster when run at 1Mhz but the write was much faster at 48M...
Jonathan Cormier
02:19 PM Software Development: RE: SPI clock issues with using newest u-boot
I added the CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_BAR define to mityarm335x.h and the warning is goes away on the "sf probe" command.
I added the #UNDEF and then "#define CONFIG_BOOTDELAY 3" to mityarm335x.h, and this now works.
The "sf erase" command seem...
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JC 01:38 PM Software Development: RE: SPI clock issues with using newest u-boot
1) I'm not sure why its detecting it differently. Maybe the newer u-boot has a more specific driver for this chip?
Also from the README
Jonathan Cormier
12:44 PM Software Development: RE: SPI clock issues with using newest u-boot
Hey Johnathan,
Testing out the new spi bus changes seem fine. I do have two quick questions:
1) The original code I wrote spit out the device ID as:
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U-Boot# sf probe 0:0;
SF: Detected N25Q00AA with p...
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07/10/2014

JC 05:10 PM PCB Development: RE: Time drift
The skipping bad block is not an error but more of an info. Blocks can be marked bad from factory and during use. This is just telling you one was found and skipped over. Jonathan Cormier
BJ 04:19 PM PCB Development: RE: Time drift
The clock is working now. Thank you.
But when we flash the nand, there is an error:
root@mityarm-335x:~# flash_erase /dev/mtd7 0 0
Erasing 256 Kibyte @ 400000 -- 80 % complete flash_erase: Skipping bad block at 00440000
Erasing 2...
Bindu Jagannatha
JC 03:29 PM PCB Development: RE: Time drift
So if this is the problem I'm thinking of. It was discovered that when we changed to the 3.2 kernel we weren't setting up the RTC and by default the RTC was using its internal clock. This clock has a much higher error than the external... Jonathan Cormier
BJ 03:26 PM PCB Development: RE: Time drift
Hey Jonathan,
Thanks again, we will definitely try this solution and let you know if it works. I would like to know what you think was the problem; it is still unclear to me if the clock on the processor chip is bad, or the kernel was...
Bindu Jagannatha
JC 03:00 PM PCB Development: RE: Time drift
I've attached the lastest uImage but yes you can build it if you would like. Instructions are here [[Linux_Kernel]]
This should be built from git commit: e53da3cda4dba6464b5b612e865c29e93144957f
Jonathan Cormier
BJ 02:57 PM PCB Development: RE: Time drift
NAND read: device 0 offset 0x340000, size 0x500000
Skipping bad block 0x00780000
5242880 bytes read: OK
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80007fc0 ...
Image Name: Linux-3.2.0+
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (unco...
Bindu Jagannatha
BJ 02:56 PM PCB Development: RE: Time drift
We used the pre-build kernel image that came with the board. The kernel that in the Virtual Machine/home/mitydsp/project/linux-mityarm-335x is already updated through git. I will post the boot log below. Is this fix need us to rebuild th... Bindu Jagannatha
JC 08:12 AM PCB Development: RE: Time drift
What version of the kernel came with your devkit? Could you post a boot log?
Particularly I want to know if your kernel is new enough to have this fix. http://support.criticallink.com/gitweb/?p=linux-mityarm-335x.git;a=commit;h=7fae5...
Jonathan Cormier
 

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