[Librem-5-dev] devkit flashing help

[Angus Ainslie]

Hi Phil,

On 2020-09-15 1:37 p.m., Phil via Librem-5-dev wrote:
> Hello list members,
>
>  I hope everyone is well. I have a devkit that has been in storage since
> I received it and I'm trying to get it up and running here. I'm
> following along with the docs online and getting stuck while attempting
> to flash the system image[1].
>
> My device is connected in USB boot mode:
>
>     Bus 002 Device 071: ID 1fc9:012b NXP Semiconductors i.MX 8M Dual/8M QuadLite/8M Quad Serial Downloader
>
> and the librem5-devkit-flash-image script is hanging like so:
>
>     librem5-devkit-tools$ ./scripts/librem5-devkit-flash-image --dir ~/Downloads --skip-cleanup2020-09-15 12:40:22,175 INFO Looking for devkit current buster+ci image
>     2020-09-15 12:40:25,840 INFO Found disk image Build 5369 'current devkit buster+ci image' from Mon Sep 14 16:01:31 2020
>     2020-09-15 12:40:27,912 INFO Found uboot Build 34 from Fri May 22 06:40:11 2020
>     2020-09-15 12:40:27,913 INFO Downloading to /home/elektron/Downloads
>     2020-09-15 12:40:28,628 INFO Downloading image from https://arm01.puri.sm/job/Images/job/Image%20Build/5369/artifact/devkit.img.xz
>     2020-09-15 12:50:04,980 INFO Calculating sha256sum of /home/elektron/Downloads/devkit.img                       
>     2020-09-15 12:50:22,634 INFO Downloading uboot from https://arm01.puri.sm/job/u-boot_builds/job/uboot_devkit_build/34/artifact/output/uboot-devkit/u-boot-devkit.imx
>     uuu (Universal Update Utility) for nxp imx chips -- lib1.2.91                                                   
>     
>     Success 0    Failure 0                                                                                         
>                                                                                                                     
>     2:111  1/ 1   [=================100%=================] SDP: boot -f u-boot-devkit.imx                           
>
> It just kinda hangs there forever. Any pointers would be appreciated!

All of the above looks ok. Without having debug port output my guess
would be that whatever you are using as a supply doesn't provide enough
current.

Either use a wall dongle that can supply more voltage and/or current or
you can also use a battery which will help handle the spikes.

Cheers

Angus

> Thanks in advance,
>
> Phil
>
>
> 1: https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Development_Environment/Boards/HowTo/Flashing_eMMC.html#flashing-the-system-image
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