OMAP Wireless Connectivity image instalation

Flashing UBL and u-boot on to the SPI flash of AM1808 EVM

Setup

• Connect the AM1808 EVM board with a serial cable to the PC.
• Arrange the DIP S7 switch settings as follows:

Download flash package

• Download the following package or use the package from the AM18 web page.
• This package contains the files: sfh_OMAP-L138.exe, arm-mmcsd-ais.bin, u-boot-am180x-evm.bin and it will be used to flash the UBL(arm-mmcsd-ais.bin) and u-boot(u-boot-am180x-evm.bin) into the SPI flash of the AM1808 EVM board.

Erase the SPI flash

• Before running the following commands make sure that you close any serial terminal emulator.
• run the following command

Windows

• Start --> Run
• Type cmd in edit box and press OK button. A console screen will be opened.

 
<package path>\sfh_OMAP-L138.exe –erase 

Linux

 
[--Linux-host--]sudo mono sfh_OMAP-L138.exe –erase 

• While executing the above commands, the shell will ask you to reset the board, then just switch off and switch on the board until it says “erasing chip”.
• Expected result is as follows:

 
C:\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_31\sfh_OMAP-L138.exe -erase
-----------------------------------------------------
   TI Serial Flasher Host Program for OMAP-L138
   (C) 2011, Texas Instruments, Inc.
   Ver. 1.67
-----------------------------------------------------


Platform is Windows.
      [TYPE] Global erase
    [TARGET] OMAPL138
    [DEVICE] SPI_MEM

Attempting to connect to device COM1...
Press any key to end this program at any time.

(AIS Parse): Read magic word 0x41504954.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for BOOTME... (power on or reset target now)
(AIS Parse): BOOTME received!
(AIS Parse): Performing Start-Word Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing Ping Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Processing command 0: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 8704-Byte section to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 1: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 824-Byte section to address 0x80002200.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 2: 0x58535906.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing jump and close...
(AIS Parse): AIS complete. Jump to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for DONE...
(AIS Parse): Boot completed successfully.

Waiting for SFT on the OMAP-L138...

Erasing flash
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                            Erase complete


Operation completed successfully.

Burn to SPI flash

• Once the SPI flash is erased, the UBL and u-boot can be flashed into it by following the next steps.

Windows

• In the console window type the following command:

<package path>\sfh_OMAP-L138.exe -flash <package path>\arm-mmcsd-ais.bin <package path>\u-boot.bin 

-- <package path>\ means your full path to the package directory. e.g: C:\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_31\
Linux

 
[--Linux-host--]sudo mono sfh_OMAP-L138.exe -flash arm-mmcsd-ais.bin u-boot.bin 

• While executing the above commands, the shell will ask you to reset the board, then just switch off and switch on the board until it says “erasing chip”.
• Expected result is as follows:

C:\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_31\sfh_OMAP-L138.exe -flash C:\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_31\arm-mmcsd-ais.bin C:\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_31\u-boot-am180x-evm.bin

-----------------------------------------------------
   TI Serial Flasher Host Program for OMAP-L138
   (C) 2011, Texas Instruments, Inc.
   Ver. 1.67
-----------------------------------------------------


Platform is Windows.
      [TYPE] UBL and application image
       [UBL] C:\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_31\arm-mmcsd-ais.bin
 [APP IMAGE] C:\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_31\u-boot-am180x-evm.bin
    [TARGET] OMAPL138
    [DEVICE] SPI_MEM

Attempting to connect to device COM1...
Press any key to end this program at any time.

(AIS Parse): Read magic word 0x41504954.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for BOOTME... (power on or reset target now)
(AIS Parse): BOOTME received!
(AIS Parse): Performing Start-Word Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing Ping Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Processing command 0: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 8704-Byte section to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 1: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 824-Byte section to address 0x80002200.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 2: 0x58535906.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing jump and close...
(AIS Parse): AIS complete. Jump to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for DONE...
(AIS Parse): Boot completed successfully.

Waiting for SFT on the OMAP-L138...

Flashing UBL C:\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_31\arm-mmcsd-ais.bin (11592 bytes) at 0x00000000

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                  Image data transmitted over UART.

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                       UBL programming complete


Flashing application C:\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_31\u-boot-am180x-evm.bin (179148 bytes)

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                  Image data transmitted over UART.

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                   Application programming complete


Operation completed successfully. 

Finish and loading the board

• Now change the S7 switch as below to boot from the SPI flash

• Start a serial terminal emulation program like "Hyper terminal" on Windows or "minicom" on Linux.
• Parameters set for the serial terminal application are as follow
  

• Power on the AM1808 EVM board.
• On the console terminal, hit any key when it prompts, to stop at the ‘uboot’ prompt.
• Set the following boot parameters as below.

u-boot :> setenv ethaddr ‘<write down the Ethernet address on the board>’
The Ethernet address looks like xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
u-boot :> setenv bootcmd 'if mmc rescan 0; then if fatload mmc 0 0xc0600000 boot.scr; then source 0xc0600000; else fatload mmc 0 0xc0700000 uImage; bootm c0700000; fi; else sf probe 0; sf read 0xc0700000 0x80000 0x220000; bootm 0xc0700000; fi'
u-boot :> setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootwait ip=off'
u-boot :> saveenv

• To see the parameters that was set type 'pri' + enter.

baudrate=115200
bootargs=console=ttyS2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootwait ip=off
bootcmd=if mmc rescan 0; then if fatload mmc 0 0xc0600000 boot.scr; then source 0xc0600000; else fatload mmc 0 0xc0700000 uImage; bootm c0700000; fi; else sf probe 0; sf read 0xc0700000 0x80000 0x220000; bootm 0xc0700000; fi
bootdelay=3
bootfile=uImage
ethact=DaVinci-EMAC
ethaddr=192.168.1.110
fileaddr=C0700000
filesize=1CC6DC
stderr=serial
stdin=serial
stdout=serial
ver=U-Boot 2010.12 (Jun 06 2011 - 13:30:47)

• The board set up has been completed now. you can run 'boot' command to start loading from SD card ( see explanation for preparing SD card ).
  

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