robbo Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 I have a few 2G boards bought from Globalscale over the last few months. They've been working fine without any issues. So far I've been using the firmware that came with the boards. One has: TIM-1.0 WTMI-armada-17.10.1-b90dbf0 ENTER init_ddrgen DDR_TOPOLOGY is 7 : DDR3, 2CS 1G + 1G WTMI_CLOCK=2 ... U-Boot 2017.03-armada-17.10.1-gaee49fc (Jan 29 2018 - 18:21:49 +0800) (and has the w25q32dw SPI) The other two have: TIM-1.0 WTMI-armada-17.10.5-bb8f823 WTMI: system early-init SVC REV: 5, CPU VDD voltage: 1.143V ... U-Boot 2017.03-armada-17.10.2-g14aeedc (Jun 01 2018 - 15:39:10 +0800) (and have the newer Macronix mx25u3235f SPI) I wanted to try the Armbian boot images, first via SATA to see how they go on these boards rather than overwriting the images (which I haven't been able to find copies of). In all cases, I get "TIM-1.0" then eventually the ">" prompt, but nothing else. I copied the images with 'dd if=sata-image-2g-2cs-1000_800.bin of=/dev/sdd conv=fdatasync'. I saw a post suggesting that they should be copied starting at LBA 1 or 34, so I tried that too. In those cases I didn't even get the "TIM-1.0", but only the ">" prompt. I'm not sure what I'm missing here. Perhaps the images are not compatible with these boards? I guess my next step is to try loading the UART image via the serial port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebin-dev Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 12 hours ago, robbo said: Perhaps the images are not compatible with these boards? The first board is a normal 2g-2cs board with Winbond SPI (Board version V5_0_1). You should be able to flash it as described on the EspressoBin download page. Armbian also supports EspressoBins equipped with Macronix SPI - but currently not yet V7_0-2 EspressoBins ! Just have a look at the board version indicated on the PCB. EDIT: board version corrected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbo Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 1 hour ago, ebin-dev said: The first board is a normal 2g-2cs board with Winbond SPI (Board version V3). You should be able to flash it as described on the EspressoBin download page. Armbian also supports EspressoBins equipped with Macronix SPI - but currently not V7_0-2 EspressoBins ! Just have a look at the board version indicated on the PCB. All three boards are marked V5_0_1. I guess I can try flashing one of them. I was hoping to try via SATA first, but still haven't been able to get that to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebin-dev Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 38 minutes ago, robbo said: All three boards are marked V5_0_1 Please double check if any of your boards is equipped with DDR4 DRAM (not expected). You never know what kind of changes are suddenly introduced by GlobalScale these days ... If there are just DDR3 DRAM chips - then you can safely use the flash-images-18.09 (Macronix SPI is supported). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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