topic L4.1.15_2.1.0-ga_mfg_tools not finding board? in i.MX Processors

L4.1.15_2.1.0-ga_mfg_tools not finding board?

colinhelliwell — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:24:40 GMT

I'm trying to migrate from mfgtool2 on Windows to the Linux version. I'm using a custom board, with an IMX6Solo CPU, and I've been using the Windows version successfully, so I know my images etc are fine.

I've used the cfg.ini and ucl2.xml files from Windows to set up the Linux tool, and I'm fairly sure all is correct with these - indeed an 'strace' on mfgtoolcli shows them being opened successfully.

The board is detected on USB - lsusb shows:

Bus 001 Device 007: ID 15a2:0061 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

with dmesg containing:

[1195478.199348] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[1195478.328352] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=15a2, idProduct=0061
[1195478.328358] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[1195478.328362] usb 1-2: Product: SE Blank RIGEL
[1195478.328365] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Freescale SemiConductor Inc
[1195478.352579] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[1195478.352583] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[1195478.358096] hid-generic 0003:15A2:0061.0001: hiddev0,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Device [Freescale SemiConductor Inc SE Blank RIGEL] on usb-0000:00:14.0-2/input0

The ucl2.xml file - in ./Profiles/myboard/OS Firmware- has the LIST entry for 'LINUX-MMC', and a CFG section:

However when I run mfgtoolcli (as sudo) - sudo ./mfgtoolcli -l "LINUX-MMC" -c "myboard" - there doesn't seem to be any comms with the board at all. The console shows:

Your Options:
Ready to flash.

(and it sits there like that). The log file contains:

DLL version: 2.3.4
Tue Jan 23 13:08:47 2018
Start new logging
ModuleID[2] LevelID[10]: address from XML 0x10500000

ModuleID[2] LevelID[10]: address from XML 0x10800000

ModuleID[2] LevelID[10]: address from XML 0x11180000

ModuleID[2] LevelID[10]: address from XML 0x11200000

ModuleID[2] LevelID[10]: address from XML 0x10600000

ModuleID[2] LevelID[10]: address from XML 0x10540000

ModuleID[2] LevelID[10]: address from XML 0x11100000

ModuleID[2] LevelID[10]: CMyExceptionHandler thread is running
ModuleID[2] LevelID[1]: new MxHidDeviceClass
ModuleID[2] LevelID[1]: new MxHidDeviceClass
ModuleID[2] LevelID[1]: new MxHidDeviceClass

Any thoughts on what's wrong, and/or how to debug further?

Thanks.

Re: L4.1.15_2.1.0-ga_mfg_tools not finding board?

colinhelliwell — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 13:41:39 GMT

I've been digging into this some more, using wireshark and strace. It looks like the app isn't even trying to do anything on USB. I can see it examining all the USB devices (e.g. via /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/uevent), but can only assume that it's not spotting the board.

This 'file' contains:

DEVTYPE=usb_interface
PRODUCT=15a2/61/1
TYPE=0/0/0
INTERFACE=3/0/0
MODALIAS=usb:v15A2p0061d0001dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc00ip00in00

- note, no 'DRIVER' field. Could this be the reason?

In parallel with trying the official tool, I've also been trying the version from GitHub - codeauroraforum/mfgtools: Freescale/NXP I.MX Chip image deploy tools. (on the same hardware). This gets as far as trying to read/write on the USB but still without success. I don't know how robust this version is either, but at least I can try digging into the source.

Is the source available for the official version? (And I'd also like to build a 32-bit version anyway)

Re: L4.1.15_2.1.0-ga_mfg_tools not finding board?

colinhelliwell — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 13:59:20 GMT

In the end, I've given up on the NXP Linux MfgTool (both the NXP binary download and the github source repo), and instead migrated to imx_usb_loader + utp_com (https://community.nxp.com/thread/441563 ).

It took a bit of figuring out the downloading and flashing commands (especially when my SOM manufacturer - KaRo - have done their own u-boot with their own way of writing the production u-boot!), but I got USB comms without any problem, and the two apps seem cleanly-written.