"No SPI Image"?

[nemonein]

Board : radxa rock 5c lite with NVMe HAT and SPI Flash Module.

OS : Armbian 25.11.2 stable 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx (Debian trixie)

Overlays : rock-5a-spi-nor-flash

SPI Flash is on /dev/mtdblock0

Boot from SD : OK

Boot from SD system on NVMe : OK

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I want to boot from Flash, so I tried `Install/Update the bootloader on MTD Flash` menu on `armbian-config'.

Then I got this message.

No SPI image found.

 

I also updated SPI with `rsetup` from Radxa OS, but it does not work(boot from NVMe failed) either.

 

What do I have to do?

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 02:38 PM by nemonein

[Werner]

My guess is that there is some code missing in the board config to make it available. Similar to this:

 

function post_config_uboot_target__extra_configs_for_rock5b_mainline_environment_in_spi() {
	display_alert "$BOARD" "u-boot configs for ${BOOTBRANCH} u-boot config BRANCH=${BRANCH}" "info"
	run_host_command_logged scripts/config --set-val CONFIG_ENV_IS_NOWHERE "n"
	run_host_command_logged scripts/config --set-val CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_SPI_FLASH "y"
	run_host_command_logged scripts/config --set-val CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE_AUTO "y"
	run_host_command_logged scripts/config --set-val CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE "y"
	run_host_command_logged scripts/config --set-val CONFIG_ENV_SIZE "0x20000"
	run_host_command_logged scripts/config --set-val CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET "0xc00000"
}

@schwar3kat any chance to have a look?

[nemonein]

@Werner Thank you for the reply.

Unfortunately, I have little knowledge about building.

However, I did find the code for rock-5c(rock-5c.conf), it's extremely shorter than the rock-5b. It has only 27 lines. Of course there are no function post_config_uboot_target__extra_configs_for_rock5c_mainline_environment_in_spi()

 

It means rock-5c.conf has not finished yet.

Can you guys take a look?

[schwar3kat]

13 hours ago, Werner said:

schwar3kat any chance to have a look?

 

I will take a look, but I have no experience with SPI on this board.
I may have to try some copy pasta.

[nemonein]

@schwar3kat Thanks!

 

[schwar3kat]

Where did you get the image "Armbian 25.11.2 stable 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx"? Do you have the filename?
Rock 5c image files look like this "Armbian_25.11.1_Rock-5c_trixie_vendor_6.1.115_minimal..."
Is it a minimal or desktop?
 

I can build you an unsupported image using the uBoot config from rock-5b, and you can test if it works, however that is about the limit of what I can do because I don't have an NVME hat or a SPI flash module or the lite version of the radxa rock 5c or experience with the SPI subsystem.  If you let me know minimal or desktop, I will build it.

 

The rock-5b SPI uboot compile config suggested by Werner is for the mainline uboot and may not work with the uboot using spl-blobs  although I think it might. 
 

The NVME hat may not have the same device tree overlay as the built in NVME on the rock-5a.
There is no reason to believe that the rock-5a-spi-nor-flash device tree overlay for the rock-5a will work correctly for the rock-5c.
However you seem to indicate that the SPI module and NVME is working/accessible using the vendor kernel.  This does not mean that they will work with uBoot.
 

This may be relevant https://forum.armbian.com/topic/47090-radxa-rock5c-pentahat-and-emmc
 

Building Armbian yourself is pretty easy if you want to experiment with current and edge mainline kernels.
https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Overview/