[U-Boot] USB Device Identification -- non-removable USB NAND flash

[U-Boot] USB Device Identification -- non-removable USB NAND flash

[Curt Brune]

Hi - 

Looking for suggestions on how to identify a particular USB mass storage device on my platform.

My platform has a P2020 SoC.  The SoC USB controller is connected to an on board USB hub.  The hub has 3 connections as follows:

+---------+
|         |--->[USB flash controller, fronting a 2GB NAND flash]
| USB Hub |--->[front panel USB connector]
|         |--->[front panel USB connector]
+---------+

My uImage is stored on the NAND in a raw partition. I have been using the usbboot command just fine.  Something like this:

  uboot> usbboot $loadaddr 0:0 && bootm $loadaddr

That boots from storage device 0, partition 0.  That works great.

The problem is when I *also* have a USB memory stick plugged into one of the front panel ports.  In that case my boot device no longer shows up as device "0", but rather "1".

I'm guessing this problem is not unique.

Is there a way to "fix" the device number for the non-removable flash to always be 0?

Alternatively is there a way to figure out at run time (in a script) what device corresponds to my internal flash?

I started hacking on common/usb.c and I see how I can make it work, but that solution seemed wrong.  There's got to be a better way.

Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Cheers,
Curt

[U-Boot] USB Device Identification -- non-removable USB NAND flash

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Curt,

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:33:29 -0700 (PDT), Curt Brune
<curt@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:

> Hi - 
> 
> Looking for suggestions on how to identify a particular USB mass storage device on my platform.
> 
> My platform has a P2020 SoC.  The SoC USB controller is connected to an on board USB hub.  The hub has 3 connections as follows:
> 
> +---------+
> |         |--->[USB flash controller, fronting a 2GB NAND flash]
> | USB Hub |--->[front panel USB connector]
> |         |--->[front panel USB connector]
> +---------+
> 
> My uImage is stored on the NAND in a raw partition. I have been using the usbboot command just fine.  Something like this:
> 
>   uboot> usbboot $loadaddr 0:0 && bootm $loadaddr
> 
> That boots from storage device 0, partition 0.  That works great.
> 
> The problem is when I *also* have a USB memory stick plugged into one of the front panel ports.  In that case my boot device no longer shows up as device "0", but rather "1".
> 
> I'm guessing this problem is not unique.
> 
> Is there a way to "fix" the device number for the non-removable flash to always be 0?
> 
> Alternatively is there a way to figure out at run time (in a script) what device corresponds to my internal flash?
> 
> I started hacking on common/usb.c and I see how I can make it work, but that solution seemed wrong.  There's got to be a better way.
> 
> Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Haven't tested this at all, but maybe first do a "usb dev 1" and test
if it succeeded (probably requires enabling the HUSH parser), and if
it did, (try to) load from it; otherwise fall back to "usb dev 0" and
(try to) load.

Testing could actually be "blank a memory area, select usb dev 1 and
blindly load the boot image to the memory area, test image with
'iminfo', and decide if you go on or switch to dev 0.

> Cheers,
> Curt

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.