Re: am335x: system doesn't reboot after flashing NAND

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On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/04/2014 12:39 PM, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 04 June 2014 01:55 PM, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday 03 June 2014 04:18 PM, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Yegor Yefremov
>>>>>> <yegorslists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>> Kernel: 3.14, 3.15 (I haven't tried another kernels)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As soon as I write something to my NAND flash (via cat image >
>>>>>>> /dev/mtdblockx or ubiupdatevol) and make reboot or press a reset
>>>>>>> button, I see only CCCCC and nothing happens before I make a power
>>>>>>> cycle. Any idea?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just forgot to mention, that I was actually booting from MMC (mmc1).
>>>>>> The boot sequence is UART0...XIP...MMC0...NAND.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I just mount ubifs partition as rootfs and change some files, I
>>>>>> still can perform reboot and boot from MMC again. The issue seems to
>>>>>> occur only, if I write to /dev/mtdblock directly. What can affect ROM
>>>>>> boot so that it doesn't follow the boot sequence?
>>>>>
>>>>> Writing to sysboot bits in control_status register will make ROM change
>>>>> boot sequence. Not sure why NAND driver should be changing these values.
>>>>> Can you please verify that this register is indeed modified after the
>>>>> NAND write?
>>>>
>>>> Can I read this register from userspace via debugfs? I can't find such
>>>> entry so far.
>>>
>>> If not debugfs you can use devmem2[1] to read from userspace. You need
>>> to provide physical address of the register.
>>>
>>>> I made another test: write to NAND and then make kexec. In this case I
>>>> can successfully execute "reboot" afterwards.
>>>
>>> Okay. We need to monitor how sysboot values are changing between these
>>> steps.
>>
>> devmem from busybox seems to work better. At least it delivers real
>> values and not 0x0 as devmem2 does. Anyway the value doesn't change
>> and looks as configured via resistors:
>>
>> # devmem 0x44E10040 32
>> 0x00400304
>>
>> I wonder, where can I issue NAND reset from userspace? This is one of
>> the commands the kernel does during the initialization.
>
> I'm not sure about external NAND chip, does it have a RESET via GPIO?

No.

> However, you can reset the whole GPMC module via the
> GPMC_SYSCONFIG. You could try to do that in the driver .shutdown path.

devmem 0x50000010 32 0x00000002

doesn't help.

> I'm not sure how this will help the hardreset case as hardware should reset
> the GPMC module during a hardreset.
>
> Note that in the hwmod config, (mach-omap2/omap_hwmod_3xxx_data.c)
> we set HWMOD_INIT_NO_RESET. it means that the kernel will never reset
> the GPMC module during boot up to prevent loss of GPMC configuration
> set up by the bootloader.

O.K.
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