[U-Boot-Users] Flash Erase/Write error in uboot

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

On Saturday 05 May 2007 04:46, Shiju Mathew wrote:
> > > Looks likes some other issue. On our Freescale imx31 ADS  board we have
> > > connected an extension board(RAM like device) to CS1 through the
> > > logical analyser interface. The problem happens when I connect the
> > > extension board(even without powering up the extension board). If I
> > > remove the extension board the flash erase/writes are successfull.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Shiju
> >
> > Looks like an hardware/interfacing issue...
> >
> I was debugging the problem further. We have two other bootloaders
> running
> on this board - redboot and Eboot.

Wow, 3 bootloaders for one board! What luxury. :)

> Both does not have this problem. Only on 
> Uboot I am experiencing this problem. On debugging what I could find is
> that when I erase a sector, the function flash_is_busy() returns immidiatly
> with success(not busy). Usually it should loop for a while in this function
> before returning that the flash is not busy. Before writing to the erased
> sector, the "md" command displayed 0xffffffff for the erased sector. But
> when I tried to write data to the erased location using cp.b, the function
> flash_write_cfiword() returns with error "flash is not erased" since it
> failed to find 0xffffffff in the erased locations(Check if Flash is
> (sufficiently) erased). So why does "md" displays 0xffffffff for erased
> locations and flash routine says it is not 0xffffffff ? Could someone
> explain why this difference.

Does this problem also occur when you disconnect the "extension board"?

Best regards,
Stefan

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