[U-Boot-Users] Configuring Spansion flash

Jerry Van Baren gerald.vanbaren at smiths-aerospace.com
Fri Sep 14 17:35:04 CEST 2007


Yasothabalan Ramaswamy-TLS,Chennai wrote:
> So how shall I proceed next Ben.
> Where and in which file this configuration is done?
> 
> Whenever I trace out which flash is detected, it always gets detects as
> FLASH_UNKNOWN.

It would appear you have something misconfigured in your hardware or 
u-boot software.  We know basically zero about either, so you will have 
to work the problem with only generic hints from the list.

Start by verifying the chip select to your flash part is being driven 
properly.

Once you are sure your hardware is driving the flash OK, use u-boot 
memory read and write commands to send the CFI manufacturer ID commands. 
  When you figure out how to do CFI commands manually so that the flash 
responds, your misconfiguration of hardware/software should be very obvious.

The following message thread goes into more details, simply substitute 
u-boot memory read/write commands for BDI configuration read/write commands.
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/31501/focus=31730>

Good luck,
gvb




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