SAM-BA not working on AT91SAM9260-EK

cloud · **Posted:** Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:11 pm

Hi all,

I'm facing a problem using SAM-BA on an Atmel AT91SAM9260-EK board.

Maybe I messed up writing some wrong image in Dataflash or NAND.

Now my problem is: when trying to connect using SAM-BA, it always replies "No
valid processor ID found".

SETTINGS:

Board: Atmel AT91SAM9260-EK
SAM-BA version: 2.7
Jumper J2: closed
Jumper J3: closed
Jumper J6: closed
Jumper J7 (BMS): closed
Jumper J9: 2-3
Jumper J10: 2-3
Jumper J12: closed
Jumper J15: closed

I already tried to :

1. press the BP4 button together with the reset button before running SAM-BA, but it didn't work (I tried every combination!)

2. connect pin 11 and pin 35 of J24 and then running SAM-BA

3. flash the recovery image on an SD and then power-up the board

4. use SAM-BA with the USB cable (instead of the serial) using "\usb\ARM0" but it says "connection unknown"

Any help is very welcome.

Many thanks,

Claudio

P.S. If someone has a Lauterbach T32 script for this board, it would be really appreciated!

types4 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:06 am **Posts:** 21

Open JP7
Power up the board
Press and hold BP4
Press reset while holding BP4
Then release
Plug in USB cable into PC - it should find Atmel .... something, then you should be able to use SAMBA

cloud · **Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:31 am

Thank you. Indeed, the problem was with JP7 (BMS).

I attach the script for the Lauterbach Trace32 debugger for the AT91SAM9260-EK, because it may be useful for someone.

Code:

; Lauterbach script for AT91SAM9260-EK by Evidence Srl
; http://www.evidence.eu.com

 local &linux
 &linux="uImage"
 
 local &filesystem
 &filesystem="filesystem.jffs2"

 local &uboot
 &uboot="u-boot.bin"
 
 local &bootstrap
 &bootstrap="at91bootstrap_dataflash_at91sam9260ek.bin"

 local &uInstallScript
 &uInstallScript="uInstallScript"

 winclear
 
 screen.on
 
 
  winpos 77. 37. 93. 11. 2. 0. 
  area
 
  winpos 0. 0. 70. 25. 2. 0. 
  plist
 
  winpos 77. 0. 93. 31. 2. 0.
  pedit


 screen.always

 term.method com /dev/ttyS0 115200. 8. NONE 1STOP
  term.mode VT100
 term.scroll on
 winpos 0. 31. 70. 17. 2. 0
 term



 print "system down..."
 system.down
 system.reset
 
 ; hardware setup
 
 ; setup of ICD
 print "initializing ICD..."
 sys.JTAGCLOCK RTCK
 System.cpu AT91SAM9260
 print "starting JTAG..."
 SYStem.Option DACR ON          ; give Debugger global write permissions
 SYStem.Option ResBreak OFF     ; hardware dependent (see manual)
 SYStem.Option WaitReset ON     ; hardware dependent (see manual)
 SYStem.Option BigEndian OFF    ; this demo is in little endian
 TrOnchip.Set DABORT OFF        ; used by Linux for page miss!
 TrOnchip.Set PABORT OFF        ; used by Linux for page miss!
 TrOnchip.Set UNDEF OFF         ; my be used by Linux for FPU detection
 SYStem.Option MMU ON           ; enable space ids to virtual addresses
 SETUP.IMASKASM OFF          ; lock interrupts while single stepping
 print "system up..."
 SYStem.Up
 


 ; Load Image

 print "Loading bootstrap" 
 d.load.auto &bootstrap 0x200000 /VERIFY   ; load the image that will be executed
 
 print "Starting PC register to bootstrap"
 r.s pc 0x200000

 print "Starting bootstrap"
 go

 print "Waiting 10 seconds"
 wait 10.s

 print "Stopping execution"
 break
 
 ; Load Image

 print "Loading U-Boot"  
 d.load.auto &uboot 0x20100000 /VERIFY   ; running u-boot

 print "Loading uInstallScript"
 d.load.auto &uInstallScript 0x20200000 /VERIFY

 print "Loading U-Boot"  
 d.load.auto &uboot 0x20300000 /VERIFY   ; flashed u-boot

 print "Loading Linux kernel"
 d.load.auto &linux 0x20400000 /VERIFY   

 print "Loading filesystem"
 d.load.auto &filesystem 0x20600000 /VERIFY   

 print "Setting PC register to U-Boot" 
 r.s pc 0x20100000
 
 print "Running U-Boot"
 go

 wait 20.s
 
 wait 2.s
 term.out 0xa
 wait 500.ms
 term.out "autoscr 0x20200000"
 wait 500.ms
 term.out 0xa 

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