espressobin SPI woes. shall we make a list?

[kotc]

so on 2018-11-20 i've ordered an espressobin and tried armbian. and i probably got bitten by "yet another spi chip".

using: U-Boot 2017.03-armada-18.09.1-ga92bd86-armbian (Sep 05 2018 - 21:49:34 +0200)

i get: SF: unrecognized JEDEC id bytes: 9d, 70, 16. from the chip lookup (U10):

 

IS25WP032 - UNSUPPORTED by armbian as of 2018-11-29

 

so i will try to gather already seen spi chips and their status with corresponding armbian uboots/kernels. since i'm new in the espressobin land, i ask other owners to post their chips and status.

[kotc]

@ebin-dev could you contact me on freenode (irc) ?

[ebin-dev]

Hi there,

 

if you wish to support the yet another unexpected and undocumented change to SPI then you need to patch some files (see i.e. here and here). It should not be too difficult. Do you own a V7 EspressoBin ?

 

I am waiting for Marvell to update their bootloader sources on Github. Support for the V7 EspressoBin is expected. Hopefully the above issue will also be solved.

 

[kotc]

on amazon it stated 'v5', so i guess that's that. and confirming on the board is v5_0_1

[kotc]

umkay, uboot fixed, didnt even need to do uart rescue (as i was able to boot armbian kernel and write uboot from there to spi). for future reference changes to spi_flash_ids.c:

 

{"is25wp032",      INFO(0x9d7016, 0x0, 64 * 1024,    64, SECT_4K) },

 

i also had to hack around uboot to enable issi flash. but now i have working uboot booting my armbian-ascii (devuan).

[mlevistm]

@kotc can you share the workaround please? I have the same issue, bricked my board and I get the "SF: unrecognized JEDEC id bytes: 9d, 70, 16" error.

 

Thanks!

[ebin-dev]

23 minutes ago, mlevistm said:

I have the same issue, bricked my board and I get the "SF: unrecognized JEDEC id bytes

 

The new 18.12 bootloader should also support issi flash (see the parallel thread).

[kotc]

@mlevistm: uboot works even without boot env.

1/ stop autoboot by pressing any key early

2/ set bootargs variable with cmdline (assuming you want to boot to sdcard):

setenv bootargs "console=ttyMV0,115200 earlycon=ar3700_uart,0xd0012000 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait"

3/ load kernel and dt (your paths might be different):

load mmc 0 0x7000000 boot/Image

load mmc 0 0x6000000 boot/armada-3720-espressobin.dtb

4/ if above went without errrors, boot:

booti 0x7000000 - 0x6000000

5/ once you are in linux, add missing spi flash description and recompile flashimage/uboot, then write it to spi using flash tools (in my case plain dd to mtdblock0 worked),or:

5b/ use the newest image from parallel thread.

6/ once it's written, you should continue with normal armbian first time setup as seen on downloads page (ie. clear env etc).

 

disclaimer: untested and might contain some typos

 

[mlevistm]

Thank you both for the quick replies!

 

@ebin-dev: sata recovery with the image from the parallel thread didn't work for me.  What worked was booting into linux and dd the flash image provided in the parallel thread to mtdblock0 as described by kotc.

[ebin-dev]

26 minutes ago, mlevistm said:

What worked was booting into linux and dd the flash image provided in the parallel thread to mtdblock0 

 

Could you post the output of U-Boot 18.12.3 ? 

Does it recognise your SPI flash now ?

[mlevistm]

@ebin-dev: SPI flash is recognized. 

I can only post U-Boot 18.12.3 output in January as I don't have access to the espressobin these days.

[mlevistm]

@ebin-dev: here you go

 

TIM-1.0
WTMI-devel-18.12.0-a0a1cb8
WTMI: system early-init
SVC REV: 5, CPU VDD voltage: 1.143V
NOTICE:  Booting Trusted Firmware
NOTICE:  BL1: v1.5(release):1f8ca7e (Marvell-devel-18.12.2)
NOTICE:  BL1: Built : 13:46:59, Dec 26 2018
NOTICE:  BL1: Booting BL2
NOTICE:  BL2: v1.5(release):1f8ca7e (Marvell-devel-18.12.2)
NOTICE:  BL2: Built : 13:47:01, Dec 26 2018
NOTICE:  BL1: Booting BL31
NOTICE:  BL31: v1.5(release):1f8ca7e (Marvell-devel-18.12.2)
NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 13:4

U-Boot 2018.03-devel-18.12.3-gc9aa92c-armbian (Dec 26 2018 - 13:45:06 +0100)

Model: Marvell Armada 3720 Community Board ESPRESSOBin
       CPU     1000 [MHz]
       L2      800 [MHz]
       TClock  200 [MHz]
       DDR     800 [MHz]
DRAM:  1 GiB
Comphy chip #0:
Comphy-0: USB3          5 Gbps
Comphy-1: PEX0          2.5 Gbps
Comphy-2: SATA0         6 Gbps
SATA link 0 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 6 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
flags: ncq led only pmp fbss pio slum part sxs
PCIE-0: Link up
MMC:   sdhci@d0000: 0
Loading Environment from SPI Flash... SF: Detected is25wp032 with page size 256             Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 4 MiB
OK
Model: Marvell Armada 3720 Community Board ESPRESSOBin