[U-Boot] Swiching u-boot image in SPI-NOR

[JYOTI DUBEY]

Yeah got it. Just specified the correct offset and converted the file size
to hex value.

Thank you!


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de> wrote:

> Hi Jvoty,
>
> On 14/03/2014 08:17, JYOTI DUBEY wrote:
> > Hello
> >       I am trying to bring in u-boot.imx (uboot image of u-boot 2013)
> onto
> > SPI-NOR of nitrogen 6x board.I used following commands:
> >>> sf probe 1
> >>> sf erase 0 0x40000
> >>> fatload mmc 0:1 12000000 u-boot.imx
> > reading u-boot.imx
> > 343040 bytes read in 54 ms (6.1 MiB/s)
> >>> sf write 0x12000000 0x0 343040
> > ERROR: attempting write past flash size (0x200000)
> >
>
> Please read *carefully* the i.MX manual. The SOC expects to read the
> i.MX header at a specific address, depending on the selected media. On
> most media (SD, SPI,..) this is 0x400. It is wrong to copy u-boot.imx at
> the beginning of the flash.
>
> And, as already remarked by Wolfgang, U-Boot uses hexadecimal values,
> not decimal.
>
> You are not erasing enough flash. Check the size, for a nitrogen quad I
> get:
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 stefano stefano 363520 mar 14 10:03 u-boot.imx
>
> You are erasing only 256KB, this is not enough.
>
> Try:
>
> sf erase 0 60000
> sf write 0x12000000 400 ${filesize}
>
> Best regards,
> Stefano Babic
>
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