[U-Boot] CFI Driver Problem: flash not ready

Wolfgang Denk
2008-10-19T19:51:42Z

Hi,

while tryong to convert the TQM8260 board to using the CFI flash
driver (instead of a perfectly working legacy flash driver) I ran
into a strange problem: after an erase operation, the CFI driver
returns without any error indication, but the flash is not ready yet.
It takes some more milliseconds before the flash gets ready - by then
it's indeed erased, but this behaviour makes things like "saveenv" or
any "erase;cp" command sequences fail with a "Flash not Erased" error
message.

Symptoms look like this:

=> md 40300000 10 ; era 40300000 +1 ; md 40300000 ; echo ===== ; sleep 1 ; md 40300000
40300000: 19852003 0000000c f060dc98 ffffffff .. ......`......
40300010: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................
40300020: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................
40300030: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................

. done
Erased 1 sectors
40300000: 004c004c 00080008 004c004c 00080008 .L.L.....L.L....
40300010: 004c004c 00080008 004c004c 00080008 .L.L.....L.L....
40300020: 004c004c 00080008 004c004c 00080008 .L.L.....L.L....
40300030: 004c004c 00080008 004c004c 00080008 .L.L.....L.L....
=====
40300000: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................
40300010: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................
40300020: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................
40300030: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................
=>

The board uses 4 x 29LV652UE-90 flash chips for a single 32 MiB flash
bank, 64 bit wide; the old legacy driver showed:

Bank # 1: FUJITSU 29LV640D (64 M, uniform sector)
Size: 32 MB in 128 Sectors

The CFI driver says:

Bank # 1: CFI conformant FLASH (64 x 16) Size: 32 MB in 128 Sectors
AMD Standard command set, Manufacturer ID: 0x04, Device ID: 0x22D7
Erase timeout: 16384 ms, write timeout: 1 ms

CFI debugging shows nothing unusual (at least as far as I can tell):

...
FLASH: flash detect cfi
fwc addr 40000000 cmd f0 f0 8bit x 8 bit
fwc addr 40000000 cmd ff ff 8bit x 8 bit
fwc addr 40000055 cmd 98 98 8bit x 8 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000010 is= 80 51
fwc addr 40000555 cmd 98 98 8bit x 8 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000010 is= 80 51
fwc addr 40000000 cmd f0 f0f0 16bit x 8 bit
fwc addr 40000000 cmd ff ffff 16bit x 8 bit
fwc addr 400000aa cmd 98 9898 16bit x 8 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000020 is= 0000 5151
fwc addr 40000aaa cmd 98 9898 16bit x 8 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000020 is= 0000 5151
fwc addr 40000000 cmd f0 00f0 16bit x 16 bit
fwc addr 40000000 cmd ff 00ff 16bit x 16 bit
fwc addr 400000aa cmd 98 0098 16bit x 16 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000020 is= 0000 0051
fwc addr 40000aaa cmd 98 0098 16bit x 16 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000020 is= 0000 0051
fwc addr 40000000 cmd f0 f0f0f0f0 32bit x 8 bit
fwc addr 40000000 cmd ff ffffffff 32bit x 8 bit
fwc addr 40000154 cmd 98 98989898 32bit x 8 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000040 is= 00000000 51515151
fwc addr 40001554 cmd 98 98989898 32bit x 8 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000040 is= 00000000 51515151
fwc addr 40000000 cmd f0 00f000f0 32bit x 16 bit
fwc addr 40000000 cmd ff 00ff00ff 32bit x 16 bit
fwc addr 40000154 cmd 98 00980098 32bit x 16 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000040 is= 00000000 00510051
fwc addr 40001554 cmd 98 00980098 32bit x 16 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000040 is= 00000000 00510051
fwc addr 40000000 cmd f0 000000f0 32bit x 32 bit
fwc addr 40000000 cmd ff 000000ff 32bit x 32 bit
fwc addr 40000154 cmd 98 00000098 32bit x 32 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000040 is= 00000000 00000051
fwc addr 40001554 cmd 98 00000098 32bit x 32 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000040 is= 00000000 00000051
fwrite addr 40000000 cmd f0 f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0 64 bit x 8 bit
fwrite addr 40000000 cmd ff ffffffffffffffff 64 bit x 8 bit
fwrite addr 400002a8 cmd 98 9898989898989898 64 bit x 8 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000080 is= 0051005100510051 5151515151515151
fwrite addr 40002aa8 cmd 98 9898989898989898 64 bit x 8 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000080 is= 0051005100510051 5151515151515151
fwrite addr 40000000 cmd f0 00f000f000f000f0 64 bit x 16 bit
fwrite addr 40000000 cmd ff 00ff00ff00ff00ff 64 bit x 16 bit
fwrite addr 400002a8 cmd 98 0098009800980098 64 bit x 16 bit
is= cmd 51(Q) addr 40000080 is= 0051005100510051 0051005100510051
is= cmd 52(R) addr 40000088 is= 0052005200520052 0052005200520052
is= cmd 59(Y) addr 40000090 is= 0059005900590059 0059005900590059
device interface is 1
found port 8 chip 2 port 64 bits chip 16 bits
00 : 51 52 59 02 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 27 36 00 00 04 QRY.. at .....'6...
10 : 00 0a 00 05 00 04 00 17 01 00 00 00 01 7f 00 00 ................
20 : 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ................
fwrite addr 40000000 cmd f0 00f000f000f000f0 64 bit x 16 bit
fwrite addr 40002aa8 cmd aa 00aa00aa00aa00aa 64 bit x 16 bit
fwrite addr 40001550 cmd 55 0055005500550055 64 bit x 16 bit
fwrite addr 40002aa8 cmd 90 0090009000900090 64 bit x 16 bit
fwrite addr 40000000 cmd f0 00f000f000f000f0 64 bit x 16 bit
fwrite addr 400002a8 cmd 98 0098009800980098 64 bit x 16 bit
manufacturer is 2
manufacturer id is 0x4
device id is 0x22d7
device id2 is 0x0
cfi version is 0x3131
size_ratio 4 port 64 bits chip 16 bits
found 1 erase regions
erase region 0: 0x0100007f
erase_region_count = 128 erase_region_size = 65536
fwrite addr 40000000 cmd f0 00f000f000f000f0 64 bit x 16 bit
32 MB

The test from above with debug enabled looks like this:

=> md 40300000 10 ; era 40300000 +1 ; md 40300000 ; echo ===== ; sleep 1 ; md 40300000
40300000: 19852003 0000000c f060dc98 ffffffff .. ......`......
40300010: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................
40300020: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................
40300030: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................

fwrite addr 40302aa8 cmd aa 00aa00aa00aa00aa 64 bit x 16 bit
fwrite addr 40301550 cmd 55 0055005500550055 64 bit x 16 bit
fwrite addr 40302aa8 cmd 80 0080008000800080 64 bit x 16 bit
fwrite addr 40302aa8 cmd aa 00aa00aa00aa00aa 64 bit x 16 bit
fwrite addr 40301550 cmd 55 0055005500550055 64 bit x 16 bit
fwrite addr 40300000 cmd 30 0030003000300030 64 bit x 16 bit
flash_is_busy: 0
. done
Erased 1 sectors
40300000: 004c004c 00080008 004c004c 00080008 .L.L.....L.L....
40300010: 004c004c 00080008 004c004c 00080008 .L.L.....L.L....
40300020: 004c004c 00080008 004c004c 00080008 .L.L.....L.L....
40300030: 004c004c 00080008 004c004c 00080008 .L.L.....L.L....
=====
40300000: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................
40300010: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................
40300020: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................
40300030: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ................
=>

Why the heck does flash_is_busy() return 0 when the flashobviously is
still busy?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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