I solved the problem with u-boot not recognizing the eMMC. The device tree is working now for u-boot.

However, i.MX6 is using SPL which is loaded into OCRAM. If I flash SPL and u-boot to a boot partition on the eMMC the boot ROM loads SPL just fine but then SPL cannot load u-boot from eMMC:

Trying to boot from MMC1 MMC: no card present spl: mmc init failed with error: -123 SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###

If I enable CONFIG_SPL_DM=y and CONFIG_SPL_DM_MMC=y then I am getting this undefined reference (and a whole slew of other related to DM):

common/built-in.o:(.u_boot_list_2_uclass_2_usb_hub+0x8): undefined reference to `dm_scan_fdt_dev'

Even if I get this to link then the next question of course is if it will fit into the 68k OCRAM that the SoC has (the whole device tree infrastructure has a rather large footprint). It is hard to follow why the DM now is essentially enforced for storage media but does not seem to be tested with SPL.

Once again, I appreciate any pointer to a possible solution.

Rudi

On 5/18/20 4:45 PM, Rudolf J Streif wrote:

I have a custom board that is similar to the i.MX6UL 14x14. One difference is that it has an eMMC rather than a SD card. Most recently I upgraded from u-boot 2019.07 to u-boot 2020.01 and now u-boot cannot detect the eMMC anymore.

For the 2019.07 version I did use CONFIG_FSL_ESDHC=y without CONFIG_DM_MMC. That does not work anymore. Compilation fails with "CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ESDHC_ADDR undefined". What has changed here and why?

Then I tried using CONFIG_FSL_USDHC=y and CONFIG_DM_MMC=y. I simply used the device tree from the Linux kernel which works just fine for the kernel. But it does not work for u-boot. It's hard to understand why. Why would the u-boot device tree be different than the kernel device tree? If that is even the issue.

It's an eMMC with 8-bit bus. Here are the definitions that work perfectly well for the Linux kernel:

&usdhc2 {     pinctrl-names = "default";     pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_usdhc2>;     bus-width = <8>;     max-frequency = <200000000>;     vmmc-supply = <&sw2_reg>;     mmc-ddr-1_8v;     cap-mmc-highspeed;     non-removable;     keep-power-in-suspend;     status = "okay"; };

pinctrl_usdhc2: usdhc2grp {             fsl,pins = <                 MX6UL_PAD_NAND_RE_B__USDHC2_CLK        0x1b0d9 /* eMMC_CLK */                 MX6UL_PAD_NAND_WE_B__USDHC2_CMD        0x1b0d9 /* eMMC_CMD */                 MX6UL_PAD_NAND_ALE__USDHC2_RESET_B    0x1b0d9 /* eMMC_RST */                 MX6UL_PAD_NAND_DATA00__USDHC2_DATA0    0x1b0d9 /* eMMC_DAT0 */                 MX6UL_PAD_NAND_DATA01__USDHC2_DATA1    0x1b0d9 /* eMMC_DAT1 */                 MX6UL_PAD_NAND_DATA02__USDHC2_DATA2    0x1b0d9 /* eMMC_DAT2 */                 MX6UL_PAD_NAND_DATA03__USDHC2_DATA3    0x1b0d9 /* eMMC_DAT3 */                 MX6UL_PAD_NAND_DATA04__USDHC2_DATA4    0x1b0d9 /* eMMC_DAT4 */                 MX6UL_PAD_NAND_DATA05__USDHC2_DATA5    0x1b0d9 /* eMMC_DAT5 */                 MX6UL_PAD_NAND_DATA06__USDHC2_DATA6    0x1b0d9 /* eMMC_DAT6 */                 MX6UL_PAD_NAND_DATA07__USDHC2_DATA7    0x1b0d9 /* eMMC_DAT7 */             >;         };

Every time the eMMC is probed e.g 'mmc dev 1' it takes about a second and then the response is 'MMC: no card present'.

I appreciate the help.

Thank you, Rudi