Custom imx6q board fails to boot from NAND

[maximpodberezni]

Hi!

I'm bringing up a custom imx6q board and everything seems to work except for NAND boot. I compiled u-boot for Titanium board and it works as expected with MT29F2G08ABAFAWP chip. How I tested it: loaded u-boot with USB OTG (Serial downloader), erased NAND, burned linux kernel, removed power for a minute, powered board, loaded u-boot with USB OTG, load kernel from NAND and the board booted to Linux just fine. Now I need to burn u-boot and let it boot just on powering the board. I have no clue what I'm doing wrong, but Serial downloader mode is the only mode I get on power up.

GPIO boot pins settings:

BOOT_CFG1 = 0x80

BOOT_CFG2 = 0x02

eFuse - initial state from the factory, have not read it yet

How I burn u-boot.imx to the NAND:

Titanium > usb start

(Re)start USB...

USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00

scanning bus 0 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found

       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found

Titanium > fatload usb 0 ${loadaddr} u-boot.imx

reading u-boot.imx

453632 bytes read in 38 ms (11.4 MiB/s)

Titanium > nand write ${loadaddr} 0 0x6ec00

NAND write: device 0 offset 0x0, size 0x6ec00

453632 bytes written: OK

Titanium > reset

resetting ...

<<< nothing happens

I tried to do this and burn again:

dd if=u-boot.imx of=u-boot-offset.imx bs=512 seek=2

it does not help at all!

Please help me to resolve this issue. How can I perform diagnostics what is wrong with HW or SW settings? Probably u-boot needs some additional flags or something else to be able to boot from NAND? Does it need first level bootloader like SPL or something?

[igorpadykov]

Hi Maxim

you are right, seems uboot does not write FCB. In nxp official linux

BSPs it is done using kobs-ng utility while running mfg tools.

One can look at link below, download appropriate release and

check ucl2.xml and script mfgtool2-yocto-mx-sabreauto-nand.vbs

i.MX 6 Series Software and Development Tool|NXP

Best regards

igor

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[maximpodberezni]

Igor,

I've compiled kobs-ng and now the board boots right to u-boot. You are very helpful as always! Thank you!