[U-Boot] u-boot fails to read from nand flash in omap3

[U-Boot] u-boot fails to read from nand flash in omap3

[fgd]

 Hi everyone,
I've recently been playing with an omap3 beagle board and I've found a
problem that I think involves the reading of nand memory...
I have recompiled u-boot for the beagle board (I just changed its prompt, as
a simple test to check that it's my u-boot and not the one that was there
before, and I used the default configs for the beagle), then I have loaded
u-boot and the x-loader into flash, and I have succesfully rebooted and seen
'my' u-boot prompt...
after that, I wanted to load a linux kernel and a file system into nand
flash, instead of using the external memory card (if I boot a kernel stored
there, it works), so I go and load an uImage into flash, then read it back
to RAM, and boot from there, and it still works, BUT, as soon as I reset the
OMAP, when it tries to copy the kernel data stored in flash into RAM to boot
from it, the nand reading operation will fail, and if I try to boot that
kernel it will complain about a CRC checksum error...
the exact error looks like this:
#  nand read ${loadaddr} 280000 400000

NAND read: device 0 offset 0x280000, size 0x400000
NAND read from offset 280000 failed -74

note that this just happens after I reset the board... I thought it could be
a hardware problem with my board, but I've tried in a different board (an
omap3 evm) and I'm getting the same thing, so I think I might be missing
something...
has anyone of you tried something like this or has encountered any similar
problem? any help will be greatly appreciated, if you need any extra info
about what I have done just tell me...
thanks a lot in advance, regards

Fernando
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[U-Boot] u-boot fails to read from nand flash in omap3

[Nick Thompson]

On 19/01/10 08:21, fgd wrote:
> 
>  Hi everyone,
> I've recently been playing with an omap3 beagle board and I've found a
> problem that I think involves the reading of nand memory...
> I have recompiled u-boot for the beagle board (I just changed its prompt, as
> a simple test to check that it's my u-boot and not the one that was there
> before, and I used the default configs for the beagle), then I have loaded
> u-boot and the x-loader into flash, and I have succesfully rebooted and seen
> 'my' u-boot prompt...
> after that, I wanted to load a linux kernel and a file system into nand
> flash, instead of using the external memory card (if I boot a kernel stored
> there, it works), so I go and load an uImage into flash, then read it back
> to RAM, and boot from there, and it still works, BUT, as soon as I reset the

Maybe you do this after running Linux and Linux has configured the SoC
to access the NAND? Can you use u-boot to write to NAND after a reset, but
before Linux boots?

> OMAP, when it tries to copy the kernel data stored in flash into RAM to boot
> from it, the nand reading operation will fail, and if I try to boot that
> kernel it will complain about a CRC checksum error...

After a reset, I guess your UBL (and u-boot) is not enabling NAND accesses?
I added some code to the Davinci nand driver to fix a similar issue on that
arch.

> the exact error looks like this:
> #  nand read ${loadaddr} 280000 400000

u-boot's nboot command can read the uImage header and copy from NAND only the
required amount of data. It only copies to RAM, so you still need to bootm...

> 
> NAND read: device 0 offset 0x280000, size 0x400000
> NAND read from offset 280000 failed -74
> 
> note that this just happens after I reset the board... I thought it could be
> a hardware problem with my board, but I've tried in a different board (an
> omap3 evm) and I'm getting the same thing, so I think I might be missing
> something...
> has anyone of you tried something like this or has encountered any similar
> problem? any help will be greatly appreciated, if you need any extra info
> about what I have done just tell me...
> thanks a lot in advance, regards
> 
> Fernando

Nick

[U-Boot] u-boot fails to read from nand flash in omap3

[Hiremath, Vaibhav]

> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at lists.denx.de] On Behalf Of fgd
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:52 PM
> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: [U-Boot] u-boot fails to read from nand flash in omap3
> 
> 
>  Hi everyone,
> I've recently been playing with an omap3 beagle board and I've found
> a
> problem that I think involves the reading of nand memory...
> I have recompiled u-boot for the beagle board (I just changed its
> prompt, as
> a simple test to check that it's my u-boot and not the one that was
> there
[Hiremath, Vaibhav] U-Boot version may be useful here.

> before, and I used the default configs for the beagle), then I have
> loaded
> u-boot and the x-loader into flash, and I have succesfully rebooted
> and seen
> 'my' u-boot prompt...
> after that, I wanted to load a linux kernel and a file system into
> nand
> flash, instead of using the external memory card (if I boot a kernel
> stored
> there, it works), so I go and load an uImage into flash, then read
> it back
> to RAM, and boot from there, and it still works, BUT, as soon as I
> reset the
> OMAP, when it tries to copy the kernel data stored in flash into RAM
> to boot
> from it, the nand reading operation will fail, and if I try to boot
> that
> kernel it will complain about a CRC checksum error...
> the exact error looks like this:
> #  nand read ${loadaddr} 280000 400000
> 
> NAND read: device 0 offset 0x280000, size 0x400000
> NAND read from offset 280000 failed -74
> 
[Hiremath, Vaibhav] Can you please provide exact steps which you are following for NAND write and read operation?

> note that this just happens after I reset the board... I thought it
> could be
> a hardware problem with my board, but I've tried in a different
> board (an
> omap3 evm) and I'm getting the same thing, so I think I might be
> missing
[Hiremath, Vaibhav] I am working on OMAP3EVM and it is working fine for me. It looks like somehow NAND is getting corrupted, detailed steps required to comment anything on this.

Thanks,
Vaibhav

> something...
> has anyone of you tried something like this or has encountered any
> similar
> problem? any help will be greatly appreciated, if you need any extra
> info
> about what I have done just tell me...
> thanks a lot in advance, regards
> 
> Fernando
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[U-Boot] u-boot fails to read from nand flash in omap3

[fgd]

Thanks for your quick replies, I could finally solve it yesterday, the
problem was that I was writing the nand with nandecc set to HW, so if I read
it just after writing it would work, but as soon as I reseted it, it would
go back to ecc SW and stop working... I was just forgetting to add a
"nandecc hw" before reading the nand... thanks for the ideas, :)
best regards

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