How to remap bootloader and application flash area in overlay file

RE: How to remap bootloader and application flash area in overlay file

Håkon Alseth — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 12:47:52 GMT

Hi,

I'm glad you got it running on ncs v1.8.0.

Kind regards,

Håkon

RE: How to remap bootloader and application flash area in overlay file

sixuanlu&sky — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 08:33:28 GMT

Hi Hakon

I tested my example and your example with v1.8.0 , both work good .

so I think this issue would happen in NCS v1.7.1

Best Regards

Sky Lu

RE: How to remap bootloader and application flash area in overlay file

Håkon Alseth — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:59:27 GMT

Hi,

I tested both ncs v1.7 and ncs v1.8 with my example, and I cannot recreate the issue you are seeing. Can you please try to delete the build folder and re-generate the project?

Kind regards,

Håkon

RE: How to remap bootloader and application flash area in overlay file

sixuanlu&sky — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:43:34 GMT

Hi Håkon

I still have the same issue using your sample.

And I am using NCS 1.7.1

Best regards

Sky Lu

RE: How to remap bootloader and application flash area in overlay file

Håkon Alseth — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 09:30:02 GMT

Hi,

I'm not able to reproduce this behavior on my end.

I have a similar partition layout:

ninja partition_manager_report 
[1/1] cd /opt/ncs/zephyr/samples/2...amples/281606/build/partitions.yml
  flash_primary (0x100000 - 1024kB): 
+--------------------------------------------------+
| 0x0: mcuboot (0x10000 - 64kB)                    |
+---0x10000: mcuboot_primary (0x78000 - 480kB)-----+
| 0x10000: mcuboot_pad (0x200 - 512B)              |
+---0x10200: mcuboot_primary_app (0x77e00 - 479kB)-+
| 0x10200: app (0x77e00 - 479kB)                   |
+--------------------------------------------------+
| 0x88000: mcuboot_secondary (0x78000 - 480kB)     |
+--------------------------------------------------+

  sram_primary (0x40000 - 256kB): 
+--------------------------------------------+
| 0x20000000: sram_primary (0x40000 - 256kB) |
+--------------------------------------------+

Here's the sample:

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../281606.zip

Could you try this and see if the behavior is still equal on your end?

PS: I see that your zephyr boot banner indicates that you are on a non-tagged version. Could you repeat testing on ncs v1.7.x or ncs v1.8.0?

Kind regards,

Håkon

RE: How to remap bootloader and application flash area in overlay file

sixuanlu&sky — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 06:46:44 GMT

I use these settings in .conf filefor my mcuboot building

CONFIG_LOG=y
CONFIG_PM_PARTITION_SIZE_MCUBOOT=0x10000

# The build won't fit on the partition allocated for it without size
# optimizations.
CONFIG_SIZE_OPTIMIZATIONS=y

# Serial
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_UART_LINE_CTRL=y

# MCUBoot serial
CONFIG_MCUBOOT_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_BOOT_SERIAL_CDC_ACM=y

CONFIG_LOG_BACKEND_UART=y
CONFIG_LOG_BACKEND_RTT=n

and I got my partitions.yml as following

app:
address: 0x10200
end_address: 0x88000
region: flash_primary
size: 0x77e00
mcuboot:
address: 0x0
end_address: 0x10000
placement:
before:
- mcuboot_primary
region: flash_primary
size: 0x10000
mcuboot_pad:
address: 0x10000
end_address: 0x10200
placement:
align:
start: 0x1000
before:
- mcuboot_primary_app
region: flash_primary
size: 0x200
mcuboot_primary:
address: 0x10000
end_address: 0x88000
orig_span: &id001
- mcuboot_pad
- app
region: flash_primary
sharers: 0x1
size: 0x78000
span: *id001
mcuboot_primary_app:
address: 0x10200
end_address: 0x88000
orig_span: &id002
- app
region: flash_primary
size: 0x77e00
span: *id002
mcuboot_secondary:
address: 0x88000
end_address: 0x100000
placement:
after:
- mcuboot_primary
align:
start: 0x1000
region: flash_primary
share_size:
- mcuboot_primary
size: 0x78000
sram_primary:
address: 0x20000000
end_address: 0x20040000
region: sram_primary
size: 0x40000

this is my build result

[204/204] Linking C executable zephyr\zephyr.elf
Memory region         Used Size Region Size %age Used
           FLASH:       63340 B        64 KB     96.65%
            SRAM:       33440 B       256 KB     12.76%
        IDT_LIST:          0 GB         2 KB      0.00%
[149/164] Linking C executable zephyr\zephyr_prebuilt.elf

[156/164] Linking C executable zephyr\zephyr.elf
Memory region         Used Size Region Size %age Used
           FLASH:       20124 B     491008 B      4.10%
            SRAM:        7424 B       256 KB      2.83%
        IDT_LIST:          0 GB         2 KB      0.00%
[160/164] Generating ../../zephyr/dfu_application.zip
[162/164] No install step for 'mcuboot_subimage'
[163/164] Completed 'mcuboot_subimage'
[164/164] Generating zephyr/merged.hex

I think I have remap my bootloader flash area successfully

but when I flash my board with merged.hex and reset my board

I got these error log :

[14:33:11.346]收←◆*** Booting Zephyr OS build v2.6.99-ncs1-1-15-g0710acdc35e7 ***
I: Starting bootloader
W: Failed reading sectors; BOOT_MAX_IMG_SECTORS=128 - too small?
W: Cannot upgrade: not a compatible amount of sectors
E: Unable to find bootable image

what's the reason fail to boot into application ？？

RE: How to remap bootloader and application flash area in overlay file

Håkon Alseth — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:58:20 GMT

Hi,

You should use the partition manager for this purpose and define a static partition:

https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/latest/nrf/scripts/partition_manager/partition_manager.html#static-configuration

Here's an example on expanding the specific section:

https://github.com/nrfconnect/sdk-nrf/blob/v1.8.0/applications/machine_learning/configuration/nrf5340dk_nrf5340_cpuapp/pm_static.yml#L5-L8

PS: a full partition layout is available after you configure you project in "build-folder/partitions.yml" - this file can be copied to pm_static.yml and modified per your needs.

Kind regards,

Håkon