[MinnowBoard] Firmware hang

[Douglas Kryder]

because of this "decay" thru use of the chip and the nature of the board to
be used by "makers", "experimenters", "researchers", and " hobbists" i'd
sure like to see these chips to be mounted in socket type receptacles
instead of surface mount. and i do not think i'm alone in desire for this
change.  it would be a generous nod to the makers to place a socket. not
sure there is much, if any, downside to doing this. others may want to help
present the gains and loses.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Wu, Mike <mike.wu at intel.com> wrote:

>
> Be aware that SPI flash has limited life cycle. If we repeatedly erase it
> (like write big variable into it), the SPI chip will be dead very soon.
> Then it will look like variable corrupted.
>
> Best Regards
> Mike Wu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elinux-MinnowBoard [mailto:elinux-minnowboard-
> bounces at lists.elinux.org] On Behalf Of Eric Wittmayer
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 12:23 AM
> To: 'MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion'
> Subject: Re: [MinnowBoard] Firmware hang
>
> Hi Sjoerd,
>    I had a similar problem on a minnowboard max.  I ended up replacing the
> SPI flash part on it and that solved the problem.  Of course I probably
> caused the problem by repeatedly programming the SPI flash with a 5v
> programmer while I was working on UEFI driver development.  I don't
> remember specifically where the boot would hang but repeated power cycling
> the board would get it too boot eventually.  The problem started out
> happening occasionally and slowly got worse until I had to power cycle many
> times to get a good boot.
>
> I used part # N25Q064A11ESE40G as the replacement.  Here is a link to
> Arrow where I purchased them.
> http://components.arrow.com/part/detail/51523204S9061241N1037
>
> Hope this helps.
>    Eric
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: elinux-MinnowBoard [mailto:elinux-minnowboard-
> > bounces at lists.elinux.org] On Behalf Of Sjoerd Simons
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 6:42 AM
> > To: elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org
> > Subject: [MinnowBoard] Firmware hang
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > I've been having issues with some of the minnowboard max boards in our
> > test lab for a while where at times they never finished post.
> > Reflashing the flash seemed to help for a while, until the issues came
> back
> > again. With the debug version of the firmware the last few lines
> > are:
> >
> > Gpio_S5_4 value is 0x3
> > Gpio_S5_17 value is 0x3
> > Firmware Volume for Variable Store is corrupted Firmware Volume for
> > Variable Store is corrupted
> >
> > ASSERT_EFI_ERROR (Status = Not Found)
> > ASSERT m:\Vlv2TbltDevicePkg\PlatformInitPei\PlatformEarlyInit.c(213):
> > !EFI_ERROR (Status)
> >
> >
> > A full log can be found here:
> >   https://lava.collabora.co.uk/scheduler/job/367353/log_file
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > --
> > Sjoerd Simons
> > Collabora Ltd.
> >
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