Hi Alan,

I have a question, that when does the kernel need to erase reboot log
sector? If I erase the sector when booting via startup_stm32f429.s, is this
correct?

Thanks,
Louie.

2017-03-10 2:47 GMT+08:00 Alan Graves <[email protected]>:

> Hi Louie,
>
> I have a slightly different STM chip in my port, but If you are running
> gdb/openocd for your debugging you should be able to do the erasing of the
> reboot log sector as follows:
>
> (gdb) mon flash banks
> #0 : stm32f4x.flash (stm32f2x) at 0x08000000, size 0x00100000, buswidth 0,
> chipwidth 0
> #0 : stm32f4x.flash (stm32f2x) at 0x08000000, size 0x00100000, buswidth 0,
> chipwidth 0
> (gdb) mon flash list
> {name stm32f2x base 134217728 size 1048576 bus_width 0 chip_width 0}{name
> stm32f2x base 134217728 size 1048576 bus_width 0 chip_width 0}
>
> (gdb) x/16xb 0x8004000
> 0x8004000:      0xdf    0xba    0xad    0x7e    0x02    0xff    0x00
> 0x00
> 0x8004008:      0x2a    0xb8    0x0b    0x00    0x00    0x00    0x00
> 0x00
> (gdb) mon flash erase_address 0x8004000 0x4000
> erased address 0x08004000 (length 16384) in 0.373558s (42.831 KiB/s)
> erased address 0x08004000 (length 16384) in 0.373558s (42.831 KiB/s)
> (gdb) x/16xb 0x8004000
> 0x8004000:      0xff    0xff    0xff    0xff    0xff    0xff    0xff
> 0xff
> 0x8004008:      0xff    0xff    0xff    0xff    0xff    0xff    0xff
> 0xff
> (gdb)
>
> I hear your frustration and I too got bit by this, however I you have to
> expect a bit of a learning curve with embedded systems. MyNewt OS isn't
> different in that respect, but the guys answering questions on this dev
> support are very helpful and quick to respond. :)
>
> ALan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louie Lu [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2017 10:13 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: slinky with REBOOT_LOG_FCB, inside log_reboot_pkg_init error
>
> HI all,
>
> I'm somehow confused about this,
> so at this moment, this is not a critical bug and MAY closed
> REBOOT_LOG_FCB  in those apps which used this option?
>
> Also, I think apps documentation may do some improve, or add README in
> each app folder, to describe the expected result of the app, otherwise,
> user or developer may need using more time to figure out what is the app
> used to be.
>
>
> Louie.
>
> 2017-03-10 1:48 GMT+08:00 Sterling Hughes <sterling.hughes.public@gmail.
> com>
> :
>
> > I think others have run into this as well: this is a common issue.
> >
> > Minimally, I think we need to have an assert_error() that actually
> > describes why the assert() is occurring.  People have spent a lot of
> > hours debugging this one, I think :)
> >
> > Sterling
> >
> >
> > On 9 Mar 2017, at 9:44, Alan Graves wrote:
> >
> > Hi Louie,
> >>
> >> You are running into the same issue (not really a bug) I was having
> >> with the new STM32F427xx port. The Flash sector that is used by the
> >> reboot log (circular flash buffer) needs to be erased initially.
> >>
> >> ALan
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Louie Lu [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2017 9:17 AM
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: slinky with REBOOT_LOG_FCB, inside log_reboot_pkg_init error
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I'm now running slinky without REBOOT_LOG_FCB, setting in sysfcg.yml as
> 0.
> >>
> >> And the result from serial is like this:
> >>
> >> 17:[ts=17000ssb, mod=6 level=4] rsn:RESET_PIN, cnt:18, img:1.0.0.0
> >> Slinky
> >> 1.0.0.0 18:[ts=18000ssb, mod=6 level=4] rsn:RESET_PIN, cnt:19,
> >> img:1.0.0.0 Slinky 1.0.0.0 19:[ts=19000ssb, mod=6 level=4]
> >> rsn:RESET_PIN, cnt:20,
> >> img:1.0.0.0 Slinky 1.0.0.0
> >>
> >> And from newtmgr:
> >>
> >> ➜  stm32f429 sudo newtmgr echo -c stm32f429 hello hello ➜  stm32f429
> >> sudo newtmgr image -c stm32f429 list
> >> Images:
> >>  slot=0
> >>     version: 1.0.0
> >>     bootable: true
> >>     flags: active confirmed
> >>     hash:
> >> fb6ee2516c5c89fe7f0c8ebe6d390cc7ea16a5342cb55cd3d21978d98095
> >> 960f
> >> Split status: N/A
> >> ➜  stm32f429 sudo newtmgr -c stm32f429 taskstats Return Code = 0
> >>       task pri tid  runtime      csw    stksz   stkuse last_checkin
> >> next_checkin
> >>       idle 255   0    33630    33633       64       25        0        0
> >>       main 127   1       23       47     1024      366        0        0
> >>      task1   8   2        0       34      192      115        0        0
> >>      task2   9   3        0       34       64       31        0        0
> >>
> >> I think this is running as it needs to be.
> >>
> >>
> >> But when I setting slinky with REBOOT_LOG_FCB: 1, it will generate
> >> this code in slinky-sysinit-app.c:
> >>
> >>     /*** Stage 200 */
> >>     /* 200.0: sys/reboot */
> >>     log_reboot_pkg_init();
> >>
> >> which cause error when running on STM32F429.
> >>
> >> Not sure why reboot_init_handler will return MAGIC number (-7), and
> >> what does reboot log doing.
> >>
> >> Are there any documentation or help msg for this function?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Louie.
> >>
> >
>

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