Timeout when writing image on flash-erase-region

[jackking]

I am trying to write a generated bootable image to flash, but it fails with an error during the flash erase action.  I tried changing the wrapper script to blhost to add a timeout, but it still eventually failed.

Here is the debug output:

### Check presence of flashloader ###
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1/MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tools v1.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/blhost/mac /Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1/MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tools v1.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/blhost/mac/blhost -u 0x15A2,0x0073 -j -- get-property 1 0
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1
{
   "command" : "get-property",
   "response" : [ 1258424064 ],
   "status" : {
      "description" : "0 (0x0) Success.",
      "value" : 0
   }
}
blhost succeeded
### Check presence of flashloader ###
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1/MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tools v1.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/blhost/mac /Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1/MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tools v1.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/blhost/mac/blhost -u 0x15A2,0x0073 -j -- get-property 1 0
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1
{
   "command" : "get-property",
   "response" : [ 1258424064 ],
   "status" : {
      "description" : "0 (0x0) Success.",
      "value" : 0
   }
}
blhost succeeded
### Configure flex-spi-nor using options on address 0x2000 ###
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1/MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tools v1.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/blhost/mac /Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1/MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tools v1.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/blhost/mac/blhost -u 0x15A2,0x0073 -j -- fill-memory 0x2000 4 0xC0803007 word
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1
{
   "command" : "fill-memory",
   "response" : [],
   "status" : {
      "description" : "0 (0x0) Success.",
      "value" : 0
   }
}
blhost succeeded
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1/MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tools v1.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/blhost/mac /Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1/MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tools v1.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/blhost/mac/blhost -u 0x15A2,0x0073 -j -- fill-memory 0x2004 4 0x00000000 word
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1
{
   "command" : "fill-memory",
   "response" : [],
   "status" : {
      "description" : "0 (0x0) Success.",
      "value" : 0
   }
}
blhost succeeded
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1/MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tools v1.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/blhost/mac /Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1/MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tools v1.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/blhost/mac/blhost -u 0x15A2,0x0073 -j -- configure-memory 9 0x2000
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1
{
   "command" : "configure-memory",
   "response" : [],
   "status" : {
      "description" : "0 (0x0) Success.",
      "value" : 0
   }
}
blhost succeeded
### Erase memory before writing image ###
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1/MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tools v1.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/blhost/mac /Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1/MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tools v1.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/blhost/mac/blhost -u 0x15A2,0x0073 -j -- flash-erase-region 0x60000000 774416 9
/Applications/MCUX_Provi_v1
{
   "command" : "flash-erase-region",
   "response" : [],
   "status" : {
      "description" : "10004 (0x2714) No response packet from target device.",
      "value" : 10004
   }
}
blhost failed!‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

[tomaslestyan]

Hi Jack,

thanks for both question and correct answer. We will include the fix of timeout problem in next version of MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tool.

Tomas

[jackking · Accepted solution]

OK, I found a fix.   In the blhost wrapper script (for Mac), I had only added the timeout to the debug output echo command.   I added the timeout to the *actual* command and it is now successful.