[U-Boot] erase and saveenv stop working after using fw_setenv

[yusuf khan]

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> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:46:26 +0300
> From: Petri Lehtinen <petri.lehtinen at inoi.fi>
> Subject: [U-Boot] erase and saveenv stop working after using fw_setenv
> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
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> Hi!
>
> I'm using U-Boot 1.3.4 and Linux 2.6.26.5 on MPC8323E-RDB. After using
> fw_printenv in Linux, erase and saveenv stop working in U-Boot. In
> Linux, fw_* still work.
>
> When using erase, this is the result:
>
> => protect off fe040000 fe05ffff
> Un-Protected 1 sectors
> => erase fe040000 fe05ffff
>
> Flash erase error at address fe040000
> Block Erase Error.
> Block locked.
>   done
> Erased 1 sectors
> => md fe040000
> fe040000: c7be9eae 626f6f74 636d643d 73657465    ....bootcmd=sete
> fe040010: 6e762062 6f6f7461 72677320 726f6f74    nv bootargs root
> ...
>
> So the sector doesn't get erased.
>
> Errors are similar when using saveenv:
>
> => saveenv
> Saving Environment to Flash...
> Un-Protected 1 sectors
> Erasing Flash...
> Flash erase error at address fe040000
> Block Erase Error.
> Block locked.
>   done
> Erased 1 sectors
>
> I tracked the error message down to cfi_flash.c, where this function
> call fails:
>
>    flash_isequal (info, sector, 0, FLASH_STATUS_DONE)
>
> However, I have no clue on how CFI works, so my ability to debug it
> further stops here. A possible reason I can think of is that the ioctl
> calls in fw_setenv are somehow messing up the Flash status.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
> Petri Lehtinen
> Inoi Oy
> Tel. : +358 40 758 0229
> Email: petri.lehtinen at inoi.fi
>
>

Hi

I think it is the problem of hardware locking, try enabling
CFG_FLASH_PROTECTION .

-- 
Thanks & Regards

Yusuf A Khan
Multitech Software Systems
Koramangala,Bangalore