Re: Flashing U-Boot using DediProg(R) on Aspeed AST2500 EVB

Re: Flashing U-Boot using DediProg(R) on Aspeed AST2500 EVB

[Joel Stanley]

Hi Shay,

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Shay Slobodkin <shays@mellanox.com> wrote:
> Recently we had some problems with our AST2500 EVB U-Boot.
>
> Had several systems gone bad.
>
> We want to use the DediProg® tool in order to recover.
>
> If you have used this tool, could you please explain briefly how to use it
> with Aspeed AST2500 EVB?

I've not done this myself on the evb.

Looking at the board, you want header J70 is for the ast2500 boot
flash. It's a 5 pin connector on the south west area of the board. The
pins are labeled in the order: CS0, Clock, MOSI, MISO, Ground.

If you need further help perhaps send a photo of your programmer and
whatever cables it came with.

Cheers,

Joel

Re: Flashing U-Boot using DediProg(R) on Aspeed AST2500 EVB

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 06/17/2016 07:32 AM, Joel Stanley wrote:
> Hi Shay,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Shay Slobodkin <shays@mellanox.com> wrote:
>> Recently we had some problems with our AST2500 EVB U-Boot.
>>
>> Had several systems gone bad.
>>
>> We want to use the DediProg® tool in order to recover.
>>
>> If you have used this tool, could you please explain briefly how to use it
>> with Aspeed AST2500 EVB?
> 
> I've not done this myself on the evb.
> 
> Looking at the board, you want header J70 is for the ast2500 boot
> flash. It's a 5 pin connector on the south west area of the board. The
> pins are labeled in the order: CS0, Clock, MOSI, MISO, Ground.

Yes. It works pretty well from a raspberry pi. I also have used a 
Flashcat programmer. 

You should make sure that the board is not booting from the flash 
module. For that you need to unselect the flash chip, CS0 on header J44. 

> If you need further help perhaps send a photo of your programmer and
> whatever cables it came with.

and one of your board perhaps. With details of what is around the 
flash.

Cheers,

C. 
 
> Cheers,
> 
> Joel
> 

Re: Flashing U-Boot using DediProg(R) on Aspeed AST2500 EVB

[Rick Altherr]

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Xo and I have been using SF100s with AST2500 EVB.  It works OK.  The main
gotcha seems to be that after writing to the flash with the SF100, it is
left in a state that the AST2500 can't seem to boot from.  Power cycling
fixes it.  I haven't spent the time to investigate further.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> wrote:

> On 06/17/2016 07:32 AM, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > Hi Shay,
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Shay Slobodkin <shays@mellanox.com>
> wrote:
> >> Recently we had some problems with our AST2500 EVB U-Boot.
> >>
> >> Had several systems gone bad.
> >>
> >> We want to use the DediProg® tool in order to recover.
> >>
> >> If you have used this tool, could you please explain briefly how to use
> it
> >> with Aspeed AST2500 EVB?
> >
> > I've not done this myself on the evb.
> >
> > Looking at the board, you want header J70 is for the ast2500 boot
> > flash. It's a 5 pin connector on the south west area of the board. The
> > pins are labeled in the order: CS0, Clock, MOSI, MISO, Ground.
>
> Yes. It works pretty well from a raspberry pi. I also have used a
> Flashcat programmer.
>
> You should make sure that the board is not booting from the flash
> module. For that you need to unselect the flash chip, CS0 on header J44.
>
> > If you need further help perhaps send a photo of your programmer and
> > whatever cables it came with.
>
> and one of your board perhaps. With details of what is around the
> flash.
>
> Cheers,
>
> C.
>
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Joel
> >
>
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RE: Flashing U-Boot using DediProg(R) on Aspeed AST2500 EVB

[Shay Slobodkin]

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Thank you very much guys.

From: Rick Altherr [mailto:raltherr@google.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 8:35 PM
To: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>; Shay Slobodkin <shays@mellanox.com>; openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Flashing U-Boot using DediProg(R) on Aspeed AST2500 EVB

Xo and I have been using SF100s with AST2500 EVB.  It works OK.  The main gotcha seems to be that after writing to the flash with the SF100, it is left in a state that the AST2500 can't seem to boot from.  Power cycling fixes it.  I haven't spent the time to investigate further.

We have been able to use the tool to recover our systems.
We also had to power cycle the boards after flashing.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org<mailto:clg@kaod.org>> wrote:
On 06/17/2016 07:32 AM, Joel Stanley wrote:
> Hi Shay,
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Shay Slobodkin <shays@mellanox.com<mailto:shays@mellanox.com>> wrote:
>> Recently we had some problems with our AST2500 EVB U-Boot.
>>
>> Had several systems gone bad.
>>
>> We want to use the DediProg® tool in order to recover.
>>
>> If you have used this tool, could you please explain briefly how to use it
>> with Aspeed AST2500 EVB?
>
> I've not done this myself on the evb.
>
> Looking at the board, you want header J70 is for the ast2500 boot
> flash. It's a 5 pin connector on the south west area of the board. The
> pins are labeled in the order: CS0, Clock, MOSI, MISO, Ground.

Yes. It works pretty well from a raspberry pi. I also have used a
Flashcat programmer.

You should make sure that the board is not booting from the flash
module. For that you need to unselect the flash chip, CS0 on header J44.

> If you need further help perhaps send a photo of your programmer and
> whatever cables it came with.

and one of your board perhaps. With details of what is around the
flash.

Will send some photos if we ran into any problems.

Thanks again,
Shay


Cheers,

C.

> Cheers,
>
> Joel
>

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