[#5790] Cannot read flash under Linux

Submitted By: Jie Zhang

Open Date

2009-12-23 22:59:44 Close Date

2009-12-24 03:34:06

Priority:

Medium Assignee:

Barry Song

Status:

Closed Fixed In Release:

N/A

Found In Release:

snaps Release:

Category:

N/A Board:

STAMP

Processor:

BF533 Silicon Revision:

0.3

Is this bug repeatable?:

Yes Resolution:

Rejected

Uboot version or rev.:

Latest trunk Toolchain version or rev.:

Latest trunk

App binary format:

N/A

Summary: Cannot read flash under Linux

Details:

$ cat t.c

#include <stdio.h>

int main ()

{

unsigned char *p = (unsigned char *) 0x20000000;

printf ("0x20000000: %02x %02x %02x %02x\n", p[0], p[1], p[2], p[3]);

return 0;

}

$ bfin-uclinux-gcc -o t t.c

Then run t under Linux on bf533-stamp, the output is not expected. Just random values.

The expected result, as on bf537-stamp, is

root:/> ./t

0x20000000: 0e e1 ec 0f

root:/>

Follow-ups

--- Barry Song 2009-12-24 01:47:21

not a bug for 533 nor flash. 533 is sharing flash with network card. When kernel

access it, it need

static void switch_to_flash(struct async_state *state)

{

local_irq_save(state->irq_flags);

gpio_set_value(state->enet_flash_pin, 0);

state->save_ambctl0 = bfin_read_EBIU_AMBCTL0();

state->save_ambctl1 = bfin_read_EBIU_AMBCTL1();

bfin_write_EBIU_AMBCTL0(state->flash_ambctl0);

bfin_write_EBIU_AMBCTL1(state->flash_ambctl1);

SSYNC();

}

After accessing, it will release:

static void switch_back(struct async_state *state)

{

bfin_write_EBIU_AMBCTL0(state->save_ambctl0);

bfin_write_EBIU_AMBCTL1(state->save_ambctl1);

SSYNC();

gpio_set_value(state->enet_flash_pin, 1);

local_irq_restore(state->irq_flags);

}

Then you are accessing network card.

--- Jie Zhang 2009-12-24 02:23:24

Barry, Thanks. Is there a config option in linux kernel, so I can access flash

instead of network?

--- Barry Song 2009-12-24 03:13:35

No special option for it. But deleting "smc91x" and "mtd" in

kernel config will help you. That just keeps the gpio status unchanged.

Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)

< > SMC 91C9x/91C1xxx support

< > Memory Technology Device (MTD) support

--- Jie Zhang 2009-12-24 03:33:52

Thanks!

--- Mike Frysinger 2009-12-24 07:50:08

why dont you read flash via the /dev/mtd* devices like normal ?

--- Jie Zhang 2009-12-24 08:30:55

I found gdbproxy could not read flash. So I wrote this test case to mimic what

gdbproxy does.

--- Mike Frysinger 2009-12-24 08:40:22

then gdbproxy is behaving correctly and doesnt need changing. it's up to the

user to make sure the board state is how they need it to be.

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