PM after 2.0.1 is not recognizing the external flash area

[Ibrahim_Augury]

Hi 
I am using the Zephyr code base after trying to update the ncs to 2.1.2 from 1.9.2
I notice that the function "flash_area_open" is returning a -2 error as it couldn't find this area ID
I am trying to open an area in the external flash.... no problem in opening any area in the internal flash 

Any tips of how i might overcome this problem ?
Thanks a lot 

 

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

The function flash_area_open() will return -ENOENT if the first parameter - ID - is unknown. I do not know enough about the issue to say more about what is happening in your case though. Perhaps you can elaborate a bit on your configuration and potential steps to reproduce?

PS: Based on what you write it does not seem like you are seeing the same issue, but there is currently problems with external flash in the nRF Connect SDK 2.1.x releases that you may want to be aware of. See this post for more details.

[Ibrahim_Augury]

	chosen {
		zephyr,sram = &sram0;
		zephyr,flash = &flash0;
		zephyr,code-partition = &slot0_partition;
		nordic,pm-ext-flash = &augu_flash_w25n;
	};
.........
.........
&spi2 {
		status = "okay";
		sck-pin = <19>; // gpio 0 pin 19
		mosi-pin = <32>; // gpio 1 pin 0
		miso-pin = <22>; // gpio 0 pin 22
		compatible = "nordic,nrf-spim";
		cs-gpios = <&gpio0 17 (GPIO_PULL_UP | GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW)>;
		augu_flash_w25n: augu_flash_w25n@0 {
			compatible = "wb,augu_flash_w25n";
			reg = <0>;
			label = "AUGU_FLASH_W25N";
			power_resources = <&flash_on>;
			spi-max-frequency = <8000000>;
			size = <0x40000000>;
			page_size = <2048>;
			block_size = <131072>;
			wp_gpios = <&gpio0 23 (GPIO_PULL_UP | GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW)>;
			hold_gpios = <&gpio0 21 (GPIO_PULL_UP | GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW)>;
		};
	};
	
	
	

Hi Thank you for the quick replay ,
Attached is my pm static file 
also attached relevant  parts in the DTS 

mcuboot:
  address: 0x0
  size: 0xc000

mcuboot_primary:
  address: 0xc000
  orig_span: &id001
  - mcuboot_pad
  - app
  sharers: 0x1
  size: 0x76000
  span: *id001

mcuboot_secondary:
  address: 0x82000
  size: 0x76000

internal_flash_storage:
  address: 0xF8000
  size: 0x8000  
  
external_flash:
  address: 0x0
  end_address: 0x40000000 
  device: augu_flash_w25n
  region: external_flash
  size: 0x40000000 

littlefs_storage:
  address: 0x0
  region: external_flash
  size: 0x75c0000

scratch_pad:
  address: 0x75c0000
  region: external_flash
  size: 0x3c0000

reserved:
  address: 0x7980000
  region: external_flash
  size: 0x100000

replace_blocks:
  address: 0x7A80000
  region: external_flash
  size: 0x560000

params:
  address: 0x7FE0000
  region: external_flash
  size: 0x20000

[Ibrahim_Augury]

Thanks for the help 
Although now after adding the suggested CONFIG i am getting an error while compiling 
/opt/gcc-arm-none-eabi-10.3-2021.10/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/10.3.1/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld.bfd: zephyr/libzephyr.a(flash_map_partition_manager.c.obj):(.rodata.default_flash_map+0xc): undefined reference to `__device_dts_ord_92'
Any idea why is that ? 
Thanks a lot

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

I am not able to make sense of this error, unfortunately. Have you had any progress on your side? Can you share a bit more context and/or perhaps your project?

PS: I am sorry for the delay. I will most likely not be able to get back to you tomorrow for any follow-up, but early next week.

[Ibrahim_Augury]

No problem 
Is it possible to make this card private 
So I may share the project with you 
Thanks a lot

[Ibrahim_Augury]

Found this link
which is similar to my issue 
Please see the bellow
CONFIG_PM_OVERRIDE_EXTERNAL_DRIVER_CHECK has been used to override the driver check for the external flash driver, but no driver is actually compiled for the region. Disabling the option removes partitions without device drivers from the flash map
How may I add the a driver to the region ?
Thanks

[Einar Thorsrud]

To add the driver add a config similar to this (from bootloader/mcuboot/boot/zephyr/boards/nrf52840dk_qspi_nor.conf):

CONFIG_NORDIC_QSPI_NOR=y
CONFIG_NORDIC_QSPI_NOR_FLASH_LAYOUT_PAGE_SIZE=4096
CONFIG_NORDIC_QSPI_NOR_STACK_WRITE_BUFFER_SIZE=16