nRF54L15dk working with external flash and partition managed

[Vojislav]

Hi, 

I am having trouble setting up the partition manager in external flash with nRF54L15dk in NCS 3.0.0. I did not find any examples of this working. Interesting thing is that for machine_learning example application in NCS you can see nRF54H20 utilize this, but not nRF54L15dk, not sure why is that the case. 

Best regards,
Vojislav

[Vojislav]

thins might be related to known issue in the driver  mismatch partition number from pm.config and runtime flash_map_entries on nrf54L15dk/external NOR Flash 

[Priyanka]

Hi,

Could you take a look at this DevAcademy guide?

https://academy.nordicsemi.com/courses/nrf-connect-sdk-intermediate/lessons/lesson-9-bootloaders-and-dfu-fota/topic/exercise-3-dfu-with-external-flash/ 

Regards,

Priyanka

[Vojislav]

I found this in your example code, stating that dtc overlay files does not work for nRF54L15dk. 
github.com/.../sample.yaml

[Vojislav]

also example you shared cannot be built for nRF54L15dk

unctions --param=min-pagesize=0 -fno-defer-pop -fmacro-prefix-map=/Users/vojislav/Documents/work/nordic/ncs-inter/l9/l9_e3_sol/spi=CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR -fmacro-prefix-map=/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/zephyr=ZEPHYR_BASE -fmacro-prefix-map=/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0=WEST_TOPDIR -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -specs=picolibc.specs -std=c99 -MD -MT zephyr/subsys/mgmt/mcumgr/grp/img_mgmt/CMakeFiles/subsys__mgmt__mcumgr__grp__img_mgmt.dir/src/img_mgmt.c.obj -MF zephyr/subsys/mgmt/mcumgr/grp/img_mgmt/CMakeFiles/subsys__mgmt__mcumgr__grp__img_mgmt.dir/src/img_mgmt.c.obj.d -o zephyr/subsys/mgmt/mcumgr/grp/img_mgmt/CMakeFiles/subsys__mgmt__mcumgr__grp__img_mgmt.dir/src/img_mgmt.c.obj -c /opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/zephyr/subsys/mgmt/mcumgr/grp/img_mgmt/src/img_mgmt.c
In file included from /opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/zephyr/include/zephyr/sys/util_macro.h:34,
                 from /opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/zephyr/include/zephyr/sys/util.h:17,
                 from /opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/zephyr/subsys/mgmt/mcumgr/grp/img_mgmt/src/img_mgmt.c:8:
/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/zephyr/subsys/mgmt/mcumgr/grp/img_mgmt/src/img_mgmt.c: In function 'img_mgmt_active_slot':
/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/nrf/include/flash_map_pm.h:56:18: error: 'PM_PM_PM_mcuboot_secondary_ID_LABEL_OFFSET' undeclared (first use in this function)
   56 |         UTIL_CAT(PM_, UTIL_CAT(UTIL_CAT(PM_, UTIL_CAT(PM_ID(label), _LABEL)), x))
      |                  ^~~
/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/zephyr/include/zephyr/sys/util_internal.h:105:36: note: in definition of macro 'UTIL_PRIMITIVE_CAT'
  105 | #define UTIL_PRIMITIVE_CAT(a, ...) a##__VA_ARGS__
      |                                    ^
/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/nrf/include/flash_map_pm.h:56:9: note: in expansion of macro 'UTIL_CAT'
   56 |         UTIL_CAT(PM_, UTIL_CAT(UTIL_CAT(PM_, UTIL_CAT(PM_ID(label), _LABEL)), x))
      |         ^~~~~~~~
/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/nrf/include/flash_map_pm.h:59:39: note: in expansion of macro 'FIXED_PARTITION_DATA_FIELD'
   59 | #define FIXED_PARTITION_OFFSET(label) FIXED_PARTITION_DATA_FIELD(label, _OFFSET)
      |                                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/zephyr/subsys/mgmt/mcumgr/grp/img_mgmt/src/img_mgmt.c:59:10: note: in expansion of macro 'FIXED_PARTITION_OFFSET'
   59 |         (FIXED_PARTITION_OFFSET(label) == (PM_ADDRESS - PM_ADDRESS_OFFSET))
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/zephyr/subsys/mgmt/mcumgr/grp/img_mgmt/src/img_mgmt.c:255:13: note: in expansion of macro 'FIXED_PARTITION_IS_RUNNING_APP_PARTITION'
  255 |         if (FIXED_PARTITION_IS_RUNNING_APP_PARTITION(slot1_partition)) {
      |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/nrf/include/flash_map_pm.h:56:18: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
   56 |         UTIL_CAT(PM_, UTIL_CAT(UTIL_CAT(PM_, UTIL_CAT(PM_ID(label), _LABEL)), x))
      |                  ^~~
/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/zephyr/include/zephyr/sys/util_internal.h:105:36: note: in definition of macro 'UTIL_PRIMITIVE_CAT'
  105 | #define UTIL_PRIMITIVE_CAT(a, ...) a##__VA_ARGS__
      |                                    ^
/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/nrf/include/flash_map_pm.h:56:9: note: in expansion of macro 'UTIL_CAT'
   56 |         UTIL_CAT(PM_, UTIL_CAT(UTIL_CAT(PM_, UTIL_CAT(PM_ID(label), _LABEL)), x))
      |         ^~~~~~~~
/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/nrf/include/flash_map_pm.h:59:39: note: in expansion of macro 'FIXED_PARTITION_DATA_FIELD'
   59 | #define FIXED_PARTITION_OFFSET(label) FIXED_PARTITION_DATA_FIELD(label, _OFFSET)
      |                                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/zephyr/subsys/mgmt/mcumgr/grp/img_mgmt/src/img_mgmt.c:59:10: note: in expansion of macro 'FIXED_PARTITION_OFFSET'
   59 |         (FIXED_PARTITION_OFFSET(label) == (PM_ADDRESS - PM_ADDRESS_OFFSET))
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/opt/nordic/ncs/v3.0.0/zephyr/subsys/mgmt/mcumgr/grp/img_mgmt/src/img_mgmt.c:255:13: note: in expansion of macro 'FIXED_PARTITION_IS_RUNNING_APP_PARTITION'
  255 |         if (FIXED_PARTITION_IS_RUNNING_APP_PARTITION(slot1_partition)) {
      |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[227/313] Building C object zephyr/subsys/dfu/boot/CMakeFiles/subsys__dfu__boot.dir/mcuboot.c.obj
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
[10/20] No configure step for 'mcuboot'
FAILED: _sysbuild/sysbuild/images/spi-prefix/src/spi-stamp/spi-build /Users/vojislav/Documents/work/nordic/ncs-inter/l9/l9_e3_sol/spi/build/_sysbuild/sysbuild/images/spi-prefix/src/spi-stamp/spi-build 
cd /Users/vojislav/Documents/work/nordic/ncs-inter/l9/l9_e3_sol/spi/build/spi && /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cmake/3.24.1/bin/cmake --build .
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
FATAL ERROR: command exited with status 1: /opt/homebrew/bin/cmake --build /Users/vojislav/Documents/work/nordic/ncs-inter/l9/l9_e3_sol/spi/build
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