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From: AKASH G J <akashgj91@gmail.com>
To: Yu Lei <mine260309@gmail.com>
Cc: openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Flashing Image using 'pflash' Tool
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:51:24 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE33tLFNadnXJEW4ZeSGJ-hM2=HA2s4eqMsXp2fzAJtU=KP0Ag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE33tLGjGmj5c_isgPmh6Xx_6S8E0X5B2b7pkJQ1tz2Ps-P+8w@mail.gmail.com>

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Is there any other utility in OpenBMC Linux for writing a file to a
specified address in flash memory?

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 2:26 PM AKASH G J <akashgj91@gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried the command *pflash -b -e -a 0x20100000 -f -p fitImage.bin*
>
> It is showing the following error.
>
>
>
>
>
> *WARNING: Erase at 0x20100000 for 0x00271e20 isn't erase block
> aligned           About to erase 0x20100000..0x20371e20
> !
> Erasing...
> [                                                  ] 0%mtd_erase: IOCTL to
> kerntFailed to blocklevel_smart_erase(): 3 *
>
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 9:22 AM Lei YU <mine260309@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 6:05 PM AKASH G J <akashgj91@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I tried to flash kernel image fitImage.bin to the flash memory address
>> 0x20100000 using the following command.
>> >
>> > root@zaius:/var# pflash -a 0x20100000 -f -p fitImage.bin
>> >
>> > It exited with following error.
>> >
>> > About to program "fitImage.bin" at 0x20100000..0x20371e20 !
>> > Programming & Verifying...
>> > [                                                  ] 0%Flash write
>> error 3 for chunk at 0x20100000
>> >
>> > Please someone help to resolve the problem.
>>
>> 1. pflash defaults to operate on the PNOR chip. If you want to flash the
>> BMC
>>    chip, you need "-b" argument.
>> 2.To program a flash area, you need to erase before writing, so you need
>> "-e"
>>    argument.
>>
>> Putting together, you command should look like:
>> pflash -b -e -a 0x20100000 -f -p fitImage.bin
>>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-12 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-08 10:04 Flashing Image using 'pflash' Tool AKASH G J
2018-11-09  3:51 ` Lei YU
2018-11-09  8:56   ` AKASH G J
2018-11-12 12:21     ` AKASH G J [this message]
2018-11-12 18:37       ` Adriana Kobylak
2018-11-12 18:43 ` Cédric Le Goater

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