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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Between 2015.10 and 2016.01, SPI flash changed erase size, and saveenv stopped working
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 05:21:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <574BB1B8.8010400@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160529204041.GA8588@amd>

Hi Pavel,

On 29.05.2016 22:40, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On board with Altera Cyclone 5:
>
> => version
>
> U-Boot 2016.01-05658-g81689ec (May 29 2016 - 22:25:45 +0200)
> arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 4.8.2
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24
> Saving Environment to SPI Flash...
> spi_flash_std_probe: slave=0bf367d0, cs=0
> SF: Detected N25Q512 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB,
> total 64 MiB
> offset 0x40000 is protected and cannot be erased
>
> ...
>
> => version
>
> U-Boot 2015.10-04078-g3b6d086 (May 29 2016 - 22:33:36 +0200)
> arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 4.8.2
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24
> SF: Detected N25Q512 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total
> 64 MiB
>
>
> Does anyone else see the problem? Any ideas?

I think you have run into the S-bit / cache issue with version
the 2016 U-Boot version. This was fixed with these patches:

mtd: cqspi: Simplify indirect write code
mtd: cqspi: Simplify indirect read code

Please use the v2016.05 release.

Thanks,
Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-30  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-29 20:40 [U-Boot] Between 2015.10 and 2016.01, SPI flash changed erase size, and saveenv stopped working Pavel Machek
2016-05-30  3:21 ` Stefan Roese [this message]
2016-05-30  7:04   ` Pavel Machek
2016-05-30  8:33   ` Pavel Machek
2016-05-30  8:52     ` Pavel Machek
2016-05-30 13:43     ` Fabio Estevam
2016-05-30 20:25       ` Pavel Machek
2016-05-30 21:23         ` Fabio Estevam
2016-06-01 21:24       ` [U-Boot] socfpga 2016.07-rc0: have to disable parts of flash probing and limit read size to get SPL to work Pavel Machek
2016-06-02 13:41       ` [U-Boot] Between 2015.10 and 2016.01, SPI flash changed erase size, and saveenv stopped working Pavel Machek
2016-06-04 20:38         ` Fabio Estevam

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