Hi,
On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 12:01:08 +1100 "Brendan Simon (eTRIX)" brendan.simon@etrix.com.au wrote:
Hi,
I'm using a Digilent ZedBoard with a Xilinx Zynq 7020 SoC. The kernel is from Analog Devices and is a fork of 4.0.0 (according to the Makefile).
I am struggling to work out the fw_env.config file required to use with fw_printenv/fw_saveenv. fw_printenv continually gives me CRC error and uses the defaults.
Google hasn't provided much assistance, with some people reporting that the settings required are different to what /proc/mtd shows.
Here is info from /proc/mtd and my /etc/fw_env.config.
root@bjs:~# cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name mtd0: 00500000 00010000 "boot" mtd1: 00020000 00010000 "bootenv" mtd2: 00020000 00010000 "config" mtd3: 00a80000 00010000 "image" mtd4: 01040000 00010000 "spare"
root@bjs:~# cat /etc/fw_env.config
# Configuration file for fw_(printenv/setenv) utility. # Up to two entries are valid, in this case the redundant # environment sector is assumed present. # MTD device name Device offset Env. size Flash sector size # /dev/mtd1 0x0000 0x20000 0x40000 # /dev/mtd1 0x0000 0x20000 0x20000 # /dev/mtd1 0x0000 0x20000 0x10000 # /dev/mtd2 0x0000 0x20000 0x40000 # /dev/mtd2 0x0000 0x20000 0x20000 /dev/mtd2 0x0000 0x20000 0x10000
Does anyone have any insight into what the correct fw_env.config settings should be from the above info?
Using /dev/mtd2 in /etc/fw_env.config might be wrong. First, you need to figure out which mtd partition contains the sectors with U-Boot environment variables. According to /proc/mtd info it could be the mtd1, if the mtd partitions layout under linux is correct. To check it, just run
dd if=/dev/mtd1 | hexdump -C
If the dumped data looks like environment variables, e.g.
00000000 a5 72 49 1b 01 61 64 64 63 6f 6e 73 3d 73 65 74 |.rI..addcons=set| 00000010 65 6e 76 20 62 6f 6f 74 61 72 67 73 20 24 7b 62 |env bootargs ${b| 00000020 6f 6f 74 61 72 67 73 7d 20 63 6f 6e 73 6f 6c 65 |ootargs} console| 00000030 3d 24 7b 63 6f 6e 73 6f 6c 65 7d 2c 24 7b 62 61 |=${console},${ba| ...
then the mtd1 device is correct. Use it in fw_env.config. To determine other parameters for fw_env.config you need to check the used environment configuration in the U-Boot source, in the board's config file (include/configs/zyng_zed.h, include/configs/zynq-common.h). Search for CONFIG_ENV_SIZE, CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE and CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET macros.
How can I find out the correct settings. Is there a command in u-boot itself which will report the correct information?
for ZedBoard, you probably can not. It depends on the U-Boot configuration. If the "mtd" command support is compiled in and the "mtdparts" environment variable is set properly, then it could be possible to output some info.
HTH,
Anatolij