Linking fails with CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT with external SPI flash enabled

RE: Linking fails with CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT with external SPI flash enabled

Sigurd — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 12:56:42 GMT

1) Create folder child_image

2) Create file mcuboot.conf

with this content:

CONFIG_SPI_NOR=y
CONFIG_MULTITHREADING=y

RE: Linking fails with CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT with external SPI flash enabled

parobin — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 09:56:56 GMT

Yes sorry, to reproduce the problem you must also add the following code directly to the board's dts (and therefore not use the project's overlay) and delete the qspi

&spi2 {
compatible = "nordic,nrf-spi";
status = "okay";
cs-gpios = <&gpio0 17 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
pinctrl-0 = <&spi2_default>;
pinctrl-1 = <&spi2_sleep>;
pinctrl-names = "default", "sleep";
mx25r64: mx25r6435f@0 {
compatible = "jedec,spi-nor";
reg = <0>;
spi-max-frequency = <8000000>;
jedec-id = [c2 28 17];
size = <67108864>;
wp-gpios = <&gpio0 22 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
hold-gpios = <&gpio0 23 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
};
};

RE: Linking fails with CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT with external SPI flash enabled

Sigurd — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 13:18:41 GMT

Hi!

I tried building this with NCS 2.5.0, but I did not get any build errors.

RE: Linking fails with CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT with external SPI flash enabled

parobin — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:11:44 GMT

Hi, I have exactly the same problem.
You can reproduce it with the jesd216 sample and the following command: west build zephyr/samples/drivers/jesd216 -b nrf52840dk_nrf52840 -p -- -DEXTRA_CONF_FILE=boards/nrf52840dk_nrf52840_spi.conf -DDTC_OVERLAY_FILE=boards/nrf52840dk_nrf52840_spi.overlay
and setting CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT=y

Have you found a solution ?

RE: Linking fails with CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT with external SPI flash enabled

Sigurd — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:19:48 GMT

[quote user="4DoorToyota"]This however doesn't look wrong to my eyes. [/quote]

I agree, everything looks right here. Could you post the entire "/build/mcuboot/zephyr/zephyr.dts" file, as well as these files:

"/build/zephyr/zephyr.dts"

"/build/mcuboot/zephyr/include/devictree_generated.h"

"/build/zephyr/include/devictree_generated.h"

RE: Linking fails with CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT with external SPI flash enabled

4DoorToyota — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:47:55 GMT

Hi my appologies,

Everything builds and links with the CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT option disabled (ie.. with all of the SPI settings). The issue I'm having is building with the MCUBoot option enabled since I need it.

EDIT:

Dug into the build directory. Looking for the error from the device tree in "/build/mcuboot/zephyr/include/devictree_generated.h" (looking for __device_dts_ord_108) shows that it is indeed the SPI bus (or the SPI device?) that is cuasing the issue:

 *   104 /soc/peripheral@50000000/i2c@a000/lis2dh12-accel@19
 *   105 /soc/peripheral@50000000/power@5000
 *   106 /soc/peripheral@50000000/power@5000/gpregret1@551c
 *   107 /soc/peripheral@50000000/power@5000/gpregret2@5520
 *   108 /soc/peripheral@50000000/spi@b000
 *   109 /soc/peripheral@50000000/spi@b000/w25q64jv@0

(in the orginal post the missing device is __device_dts_ord_113 but this is a refrence to a different build configuration that I didn't want to post. The exact same issue is happening on both just with different id #'s)

Finding the matching device for 108 in "/build/mcuboot/zephyr/zephyr.dts" gives the following for the devices configuration:

spi3: feather_spi: arduino_spi: spi@b000 {
				compatible = "nordic,nrf-spim";
				#address-cells = < 0x1 >;
				#size-cells = < 0x0 >;
				reg = < 0xb000 0x1000 >;
				interrupts = < 0xb 0x1 >;
				max-frequency = < 0x7a1200 >;
				easydma-maxcnt-bits = < 0xd >;
				status = "okay";
				cs-gpios = < &gpio0 0x19 0x1 >;
				pinctrl-0 = < &spi3_default >;
				pinctrl-1 = < &spi3_sleep >;
				pinctrl-names = "default", "sleep";
				w25q64: w25q64jv@0 {
					compatible = "jedec,spi-nor";
					reg = < 0x0 >;
					spi-max-frequency = < 0x4c4b400 >;
					jedec-id = [ EF 40 17 ];
					size = < 0x4000000 >;
					has-dpd;
					t-enter-dpd = < 0xdac >;
					t-exit-dpd = < 0xdac >;
				};

This however doesn't look wrong to my eyes. From what I've read however there should be an issue in the device tree configuration for the board.

RE: Linking fails with CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT with external SPI flash enabled

Sigurd — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:28:18 GMT

Hi!

When removing the spi dts related things, try also to remove these configs:

#SPI Stuff
CONFIG_SPI=y
CONFIG_SPI_NOR=y
CONFIG_FLASH=y