Updating from S132 v2.0.x to S132 v3.0.0 with Dual Bank Bootloader from SDK v11.0.0 does not work.

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Updating the SoftDevice on the nRF52832 from S132 v2.0.x to S132 v3.0 using the Dual Bank Bootloader from SDK v11.0.0 results in the application not starting up after the update is complete. 
 A readback of the flash after the update shows that a section of the SoftDevice 0x0E000-0x0E7FF (2k) is erased. 
 This issue does not occur when updating from S132 v2.0.0 to S132 v2.0.1. Why does the update from v2.0.x to v3.0.0 fail?

bjorn-spockeli · Accepted Answer

We have just been made aware of this issue and we have discovered that there is a page alignment issue in the code that copies the SoftDevice from swap to the SoftDevice region. 
 The bootloader library for the nRF52 has been inherited from the nRF51 and was designed with a flash page size of 1kB (0x400) in mind. However, on the nRF52 the flash page size is 4kB(0x1000). 
 Since the new SoftDevice (S132 v3.0.0) is larger than the old(S132 v2.0.0), the new bootloader image is divided into blocks and copied to the SD region one by one. The bootloader verifies that each block is written correctly to the SoftDevice region before moving on to the next block. This way we ensure that new bootloader is correctly written to flash even though we have to overwrite the start of the firmware image. 
 The block size is determined the following way: 
 block_size = (boot_settings.sd_image_start –sd_start)/2;
 
 which in our case will result in the following 
 block_size = (0x1C000 – 0x1000)/2 = 0xD800
 
 The 0xD800 block would have been page aligned on the nRF51, but on the nRF52 it will be 13.5 flash pages. So when the next block is written to 0xE800, then the first half of the flash page from 0xE000 to 0xE800 is erased. 
 The fix is to set the block size so that the blocks are page aligned, which is done by adding the following line below line 715 in dfu_sd_image_swap() in dfu_dual_bank.c 
 block_size &= ~(uint32_t)(CODE_PAGE_SIZE - 1);
 
 This sets the block size to 0xD000 which ensures that the blocks are page aligned. I have attached the modified dfu_dual_bank.c file. 
 Attachment: 
 dfu_dual_bank_with_fix.c 
 Best regards, 
 Bjørn

Updating from S132 v2.0.x to S132 v3.0.0 with Dual Bank Bootloader from SDK v11.0.0 does not work.

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