how to implement simultaneous dfu on 5340 ncs2.4 without external flash

[Ivan Zhang]

As title, I try to implement simultaneous dfu without external flash on 5340, but it always show that  'PM_MCUBOOT_PRIMARY_1_ID' undeclared.

if use external flash, my project can work well. when i disabled QSPI and  add pm_static.yml as below, the project compilation reported the error.

so  how to implement simultaneous dfu on 5340 ncs2.4 without external flash.

【pm_static.yml】

app:
  address: 0xc200
  region: flash_primary
  size: 0x5AE00
mcuboot:
  address: 0x0
  region: flash_primary
  size: 0xc000
mcuboot_pad:
  address: 0xc000
  region: flash_primary
  size: 0x200
mcuboot_primary:
  address: 0xc000
  orig_span: &id001
  - mcuboot_pad
  - app
  region: flash_primary
  size: 0x5B000
  span: *id001
mcuboot_primary_app:
  address: 0xc200
  orig_span: &id002
  - app
  region: flash_primary
  size: 0x5AE00
  span: *id002
mcuboot_secondary:
  address: 0x67000
  size: 0x5B000
  region: flash_primary
mcuboot_primary_1:
  address: 0x0
  size: 0x3a000
  device: nordic_ram_flash_controller
  region: ram_flash
ram_flash_empty:
  address: 0x3a000
  size: 0x6000
  device: nordic_ram_flash_controller
  region: ram_flash  
mcuboot_secondary_1:
  address: 0xC2000
  size: 0x3a000
  region: flash_primary
settings_storage:
  address: 0xfc000
  region: flash_primary
  size: 0x4000 

[mcuboot.conf]

# Enable flash simulator
CONFIG_FLASH=y
CONFIG_FPROTECT=y
CONFIG_PCD_APP=y
CONFIG_FLASH_SIMULATOR=y
CONFIG_FLASH_SIMULATOR_DOUBLE_WRITES=y
CONFIG_FLASH_SIMULATOR_STATS=n

CONFIG_MAIN_STACK_SIZE=10240
CONFIG_BOOT_MAX_IMG_SECTORS=256

CONFIG_NRF53_MULTI_IMAGE_UPDATE=y
CONFIG_UPDATEABLE_IMAGE_NUMBER=2

CONFIG_BOOT_UPGRADE_ONLY=y
CONFIG_BOOT_IMAGE_ACCESS_HOOK_NRF5340=y
CONFIG_BOOT_IMAGE_ACCESS_HOOKS=y

[Sigurd Hellesvik]

Here is a sample:

5700.peripheral_lbs_dfu.zip

Disclaimer: This code/configuration is not thoroughly tested or qualified and should be considered provided “as-is”. Please test it with your application and let me know if you find any issues.

This sample points the partition manager to an external flash even though it does not exist. That is becasuse it automates some building processes.
However, this should be fixed soon, see

https://github.com/nrfconnect/sdk-nrf/pull/10060

https://github.com/nrfconnect/sdk-mcuboot/pull/235

There PRs are not nessecary for you to patch yet, the sample should work without them as is.

Regards,
Sigurd Hellesvik

[MarkK]

I am currently working on an nRF5340 project and am also interested in simultaneous dfu without external flash.

Unfortunately, I can't get the 5700.peripheral_lbs_dfu example to work on ncs 2.5.0.

If I understand it correctly from the github links above, this may be a new feature in ncs 2.6.0. Is that correct?

Regards,

Mark

[MarkK]

Thank you, I appreciate your fast responses. I think I'm nearly there.

For the versioning, I included a VERSION file, according to the new system.

Then I removed (commented out) the 3 CONFIG_BOOT_ENCRYPT_  lines.

When building, I get the following errors (undeclared PM_MCUBOOT_PRIMARY_1_ID, FLASH_AREA_IMAGE_1_SLOTS and ALL_AVAILABLE_SLOTS) :

[85/269] Building C object CMakeFiles/app.dir/flash_map_extended.c.obj
FAILED: CMakeFiles/app.dir/flash_map_extended.c.obj
C:\ncs\toolchains\c57af46cb7\opt\zephyr-sdk\arm-zephyr-eabi\bin\arm-zephyr-eabi-gcc.exe -DKERNEL -DMBEDTLS_CONFIG_FILE=\"mcuboot-mbedtls-cfg.h\" -DNRF5340_XXAA_APPLICATION -DNRF_SKIP_FICR_NS_COPY_TO_RAM -DUSE_PARTITION_MANAGER=1 -D__PROGRAM_START -D__ZEPHYR__=1 -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr/include -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr/targets -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/bootutil/include -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/zephyr/include -Izephyr/include/generated -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/zephyr/soc/arm/nordic_nrf/nrf53 -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/zephyr/soc/arm/nordic_nrf/common/. -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/nrf/include -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/nrf/tests/include -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/modules/hal/cmsis/CMSIS/Core/Include -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/zephyr/modules/cmsis/. -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/modules/hal/nordic/nrfx -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/modules/hal/nordic/nrfx/drivers/include -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/modules/hal/nordic/nrfx/mdk -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/zephyr/modules/hal_nordic/nrfx/. -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/modules/crypto/mbedtls/include -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/zephyr/modules/mbedtls/configs -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/zephyr/modules/mbedtls/include -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/bootutil/zephyr/.. -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/bootutil/zephyr/../include -IC:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/bootutil/zephyr/../../zephyr/include -isystem C:/ncs/v2.5.0/zephyr/lib/libc/minimal/include -isystem c:/ncs/toolchains/c57af46cb7/opt/zephyr-sdk/arm-zephyr-eabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-zephyr-eabi/12.2.0/include -isystem c:/ncs/toolchains/c57af46cb7/opt/zephyr-sdk/arm-zephyr-eabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-zephyr-eabi/12.2.0/include-fixed -isystem C:/ncs/v2.5.0/nrfxlib/crypto/nrf_cc312_platform/include -fno-strict-aliasing -Os -imacros H:/Documenten/Projects/ZephyrTestProjects/peripheral_lbs_dfu/build/mcuboot/zephyr/include/generated/autoconf.h -ffreestanding -fno-common -g -gdwarf-4 -fdiagnostics-color=always -mcpu=cortex-m33 -mthumb -mabi=aapcs -mfp16-format=ieee --sysroot=C:/ncs/toolchains/c57af46cb7/opt/zephyr-sdk/arm-zephyr-eabi/arm-zephyr-eabi -imacros C:/ncs/v2.5.0/zephyr/include/zephyr/toolchain/zephyr_stdint.h -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-format-zero-length -Wno-pointer-sign -Wpointer-arith -Wexpansion-to-defined -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Werror=implicit-int -fno-pic -fno-pie -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-reorder-functions --param=min-pagesize=0 -fno-defer-pop -fmacro-prefix-map=C:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr=CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR -fmacro-prefix-map=C:/ncs/v2.5.0/zephyr=ZEPHYR_BASE -fmacro-prefix-map=C:/ncs/v2.5.0=WEST_TOPDIR -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -std=c99 -nostdinc -MD -MT CMakeFiles/app.dir/flash_map_extended.c.obj -MF CMakeFiles\app.dir\flash_map_extended.c.obj.d -o CMakeFiles/app.dir/flash_map_extended.c.obj -c C:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr/flash_map_extended.c
In file included from C:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr/include/sysflash/sysflash.h:10,
from C:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr/flash_map_extended.c:15:
C:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr/include/sysflash/pm_sysflash.h: In function '__flash_area_ids_for_slot':
C:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr/include/sysflash/pm_sysflash.h:48:37: error: 'PM_MCUBOOT_PRIMARY_1_ID' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'PM_MCUBOOT_PRIMARY_ID'?
48 | #define FLASH_AREA_IMAGE_1_SLOTS PM_MCUBOOT_PRIMARY_1_ID, PM_MCUBOOT_SECONDARY_1_ID
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr/include/sysflash/pm_sysflash.h:55:29: note: in expansion of macro 'FLASH_AREA_IMAGE_1_SLOTS'
55 | FLASH_AREA_IMAGE_1_SLOTS
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr/include/sysflash/pm_sysflash.h:67:9: note: in expansion of macro 'ALL_AVAILABLE_SLOTS'
67 | ALL_AVAILABLE_SLOTS
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr/include/sysflash/pm_sysflash.h:48:37: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
48 | #define FLASH_AREA_IMAGE_1_SLOTS PM_MCUBOOT_PRIMARY_1_ID, PM_MCUBOOT_SECONDARY_1_ID
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr/include/sysflash/pm_sysflash.h:55:29: note: in expansion of macro 'FLASH_AREA_IMAGE_1_SLOTS'
55 | FLASH_AREA_IMAGE_1_SLOTS
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr/include/sysflash/pm_sysflash.h:67:9: note: in expansion of macro 'ALL_AVAILABLE_SLOTS'
67 | ALL_AVAILABLE_SLOTS
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[86/269] Building C object CMakeFiles/app.dir/C_/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/bootutil/src/tlv.c.obj
FAILED: CMakeFiles/app.dir/C_/ncs/v2.5.0/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/bootutil/src/tlv.c.obj

[Sigurd Hellesvik]

nrf5340dk_nrf5340.overlay only triggers if you build for nrf5340dk_nrf5340 and not for nrf5340dk_nrf5340_ns

[MarkK]

Great, thank you for your help, Sigurd!

It works now and I will try to incorporate this functionality in my own application.

Best regards,

Mark

[MarkK]

The FOTA over BLE functionality works in my application.

The only thing I see is that for some reason the idle current has increased.

Edited: problem solved. This was not software related.

[Sigurd Hellesvik]

At this point, we are off topic for this case.

Can you create a new ticket for this, and then link to the new ticket from here?
Then I will help you in the new ticket.
Thanks for helping us keeping DevZone tidy!