[meta-freescale] How to use mfgtool 2 to boot iMX7dsabresd from NAND

[Daiane Angolini]

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Bejar-Colonia, Carlos
<carlos.bejar-colonia at philips.com> wrote:
> Hi Daiane,
>
> I haven't flashed the NAND manually yet. I am new to Yocto Project-based image build and having some difficulties to build the image (NAND boot, UBIFS file system), I thought I would try first loading the images that comes in MfgTool.

I don't have NAND to try on my imx7D board, so I have no idea if
mfgtools works out of box or not.

However, I would first start booting from sdcard, then you manually
copy the image from NAND and boot from there

Only to make sure your hardware is OK

Daiane
>
> I am using L4.1.15_1.2.0_ga-mfg-tools.tar.gz. and we would like to use it for flashing new boards
>
> Thanks,
> Carlos
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: angolini at gmail.com [mailto:angolini at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Daiane Angolini
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2017 3:29 PM
> To: Bejar-Colonia, Carlos <carlos.bejar-colonia at philips.com>
> Cc: meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] How to use mfgtool 2 to boot iMX7dsabresd from NAND
>
> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Bejar-Colonia, Carlos <carlos.bejar-colonia at philips.com> wrote:
>> Dear NXP,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have an iMX7dsabresd board and would like to boot it from NAND using
>> MfgTool V2.
>
> Have you tried your NAND already? I mean, have you flashed it manually? Only to make sure all the support is in place?
>
>>
>> I have tried to use mfgtool2-yocto-mx-sabresd-nand.vbs script provided
>> in MfgTool V2, but failed.
>>
>> I replaced the “sabreauto” with “sabresd” in the same script and I
>> also rebuild Mfg Tools firmware (fsl-arm-yocto-bsp.git) and updated
>> fsl-image-mfgtool-initramfs-imx7dsabresd.cpio.gz.u-boot in the
>> MfgTool. But still fails
>>
>
> I would prefer to use the scripts with the board name included.
> Anyway, can you, please, share the exact version of mfgtools you are using only to make sure we're in the same page?
>
>
>>
>>
>> These are the last lines from the console output:
>>
>>
>>
>> UTP: received command '$ mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug'
>> UTP: executing "mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug"
>> UTP: sending Success to kernel for command $ mount -t debugfs debugfs
>> /sys/kernel/debug.
>> utp_poll: pass returned.
>> UTP: received command '$ flash_erase /dev/mtd0 0 0'
>> UTP: executing "flash_erase /dev/mtd0 0 0"
>> flash_erase: error!: /dev/mtd0
>>              error 2 (No such file or directory)
>> UTP: sending Non-success to kernel for command $ flash_erase /dev/mtd0 0 0.
>> utp_poll: exit with status 65280
>>
>>
>>
>> Is mfgtool2-yocto-mx-sabresd-nand.vbs the right file to flash NAND for
>> iMX7dsabresd board or I need to create my own script?
>>
>> I checked the iMX Yocto Project Guide, iMX Linux User Guide, MfgTool2
>> documentation, but was not able to figure out. Could you provide the
>> steps to flash NAND?
>
> As far as I know, only the MfgTool documentation can help on this.
>
> Do you really need to use mfgtool?
>
> Daiane
>>
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Carlos
>>
>>
>>
>>
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