Problem booting iMX8QM MEK board from SPI flash

[ravi_kohli]

Hi Support,

After building the iMX8QM bootloader and making its image with

       make SOC=iMX8QM flash_flexspi

command the bootloader image was burned to the SPI flash device of the iMX8QM MEK board:

      sudo uuu -b qspi  iMX8QM/flash.bin

  uuu (Universal Update Utility) for nxp imx chips -- libuuu_1.4.43-5-ga0b566d

  Success 1    Failure 0                                                                                      

  1:8      8/ 8 [Done                                  ] FB: done                                                                                                                                                    

After the board reset or power cycle the bootloader does not start - no serial output and the LED5 is OFF that indicates the the boards remains in the reset state.

The same bootloader build for SSD/eMMC device works with no problems make SOC=iMX8QM flash_b0 .

The NXP software version used for the bootloader build:

            firmware-imx-8.1.bin

    imx-sc-firmware-1.2.bin

    imx-atf-5.4.47_2.2.0.tar.bz2

    imx-mkimage-5.4.47_2.2.0.tar.bz2

    imx-scfw-porting-kit-1.6.0.tar.gz

    uboot-imx (imx_v2018.03_4.14.98_2.0.0_ga)

The serial output during flashing is shown below:

Welcome to minicom 2.7.1

OPTIONS: I18n

Compiled on Aug 13 2017, 15:25:34.

Port /dev/ttyUSB0, 12:03:01

Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys

U-Boot 2018.03 (Dec 04 2020 - 10:59:44 -0500)

CPU:   Freescale i.MX8QM revB A53 at 1200 MHz at 29C

Model: Freescale i.MX8QM MEK

Board: iMX8QM MEK

Boot:  USB

DRAM:  1022 MiB

start sata init

SATA link 0 timeout.

TCPC:  Vendor ID [0x1fc9], Product ID [0x5110], Addr [I2C0 0x51]

MMC:   FSL_SDHC: 0, FSL_SDHC: 1

Loading Environment from MMC... MMC: no card present

*** Warning - No block device, using default environment

Failed (-5)

[pcie_ctrla_init_rc] LNK DOWN 8600000

In:    serial

Out:   serial

Err:   serial

 BuildInfo:

  - SCFW 56682d58, SECO-FW 92ef1143, IMX-MKIMAGE 5991d861, ATF

  - U-Boot 2018.03

MMC: no card present

Detect USB boot. Will enter fastboot mode!

SCSI:  Net:   No ethernet found.

Fastboot: Normal

Boot from USB for mfgtools

Use default environment for                              mfgtools

Run bootcmd_mfg: run mfgtool_args;if iminfo ${initrd_addr}; then if test ${tee} = yes; then bo;

Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

## Checking Image at 83100000 ...

Unknown image format!

Run fastboot ...

1 setufp mode 0

1 cdns3_uboot_initmode 0

Detect USB boot. Will enter fastboot mode!

Starting download of 1024000 bytes

.......

downloading of 1024000 bytes finished

Unknown command 'qspihdr' - try 'help'

Detect USB boot. Will enter fastboot mode!

Detect USB boot. Will enter fastboot mode!

SF: Detected mt35xu512g with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 128 KiB, total 64 MiB

Detect USB boot. Will enter fastboot mode!

SF: 1048576 bytes @ 0x0 Erased: OK

Detect USB boot. Will enter fastboot mode!

device 0 offset 0x0, size 0xfa000

SF: 1024000 bytes @ 0x0 Written: OK

Detect USB boot. Will enter fastboot mode!

[ravi_kohli · Accepted solution]

Reposting.