I have "ported" U-boot to a in house made board with Numonyx Axcell P33/P30
256-Mbit 65nm flash chips.
After some time :( searching for bugs in our board or soft, we have
discovered that those chips have a small but annoying bug, documented in
"Numonyx Axcell P33/P30 256-Mbit Specification Update"
It states :
When customer uses [...] block unlock, the block lock status might be
altered inadvertently. Lock status might be set to either 01h or 03h
unexpectedly (00h as expected data), which leads to program/erase failure
on certain blocks.
A working workaround is given, which I have applied and tested with success :
Workaround: If the interval between 60h and its subsequent command
can be guaranteed within 20us, Option I is recommended,
otherwise Option II (involves hardware) should be selected.
Option I: The table below lists the detail command sequences:
Command
Data bus Address bus Remarks
Sequence
1 90h Block Address
Read Lock Status
2 Read Block Address + 02h
(2)(3) (1)
3 60h Block Address
(2)(3) (1) Lock/Unlock/RCR Configuration
4 D0h/01h/03h Block Address
Notes:
(1) Block Address refers to RCR configuration data only when the 60h
command sequence is used to set RCR register combined with 03h
subsequent command.
(2) For the third and fourth command sequences, the Block Address must
be the same.
(3) The interval between 60h command and its subsequent D0h/01h/2Fh/03h
commands should be less than 20us.
And here is a log comparison of a simple (destructive) flash test without
and with the workaround.
diff without-numonyx-workaround.log with-numonyx-workaround.log
-U-Boot 2010.06-00696-g22b002c-dirty (Aug 16 2010 - 15:07:47)
+U-Boot 2010.06-00696-g22b002c-dirty (Aug 16 2010 - 15:25:19)
CPU: Freescale MCF5484
CPU CLK 200 MHz BUS CLK 100 MHz
Board: Macq Electronique ME2060
I2C: ready
DRAM: 64 MiB
FLASH: 32 MiB
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: FEC0, FEC1
-> flinfo
Bank # 1: CFI conformant FLASH (16 x 16) Size: 32 MB in 259 Sectors
Intel Extended command set, Manufacturer ID: 0x89, Device ID: 0x8922
Erase timeout: 4096 ms, write timeout: 1 ms
Buffer write timeout: 5 ms, buffer size: 1024 bytes
Sector Start Addresses:
FE000000 RO FE008000 RO FE010000 RO FE018000 RO FE020000 RO
FE040000 RO FE060000 RO FE080000 RO FE0A0000 RO FE0C0000 RO
...
FFF80000 RO FFFA0000 RO FFFC0000 RO FFFE0000 RO
-> protect off all
Un-Protect Flash Bank # 1
................... done
-> erase all
Erase Flash Bank # 1
................... done
-> cp.b 1000000 fe000000 2000000
-Copy to Flash... Flash not Erased
+Copy to Flash... done
->
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Philippe De Muyter
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