Flashing SAIL fails with QDL tool

[dcostabe]

QDL is failing to flash SAIL.

All required binary files found.
Using qdl in '/home/a6eb102/dev/qnx/adas-8797/toolchain/host-flash-scripts/../qdl_prebuild/qdl'.

Flashing SAIL/SPINOR:

Bus 004 Device 029: ID 05c6:9008 Qualcomm, Inc. Gobi Wireless Modem (QDL mode)
waiting for programmer...
flashed "SAIL_DLP" successfully
flashed "SAIL_HYP" successfully
flashing of SAIL_SW1 failed
Error: qdl returned exit code 1.

by increasing the timeout of the firehose_read() callback from 30000ms to 50000ms and cross-compile it natively on the host, we overcome this issue since with the SAIL binaries it takes approx. 35s to flash each image individually.

[ricardosalveti]

What is the target device you are using here?

[dcostabe]

Nord 8797 HQX.5.7.7.0 ES4 release. Ride SX reference board from Qualcomm. Gesendet von Outlook für Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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[igoropaniuk]

I believe we should make the timeout configurable from the command line at least, as this isn't the first time we're facing such issues.

[igoropaniuk]

FYI #164

[igoropaniuk]

@dcostabe please let me know if it works for you

[dcostabe]

yes I will test it and give feedback

[dcostabe]

@igoropaniuk

failing case:

qdl --storage=spinor qsahara_device_programmer.xml rawprogram*.xml patch*.xml
waiting for programmer...
flashed "SAIL_DLP" successfully
flashed "SAIL_HYP" successfully
flashing of SAIL_SW1 failed

good case with -w param:

qdl --storage=spinor qsahara_device_programmer.xml rawprogram*.xml patch*.xml -w 40000
waiting for programmer...
flashed "SAIL_DLP" successfully
flashed "SAIL_HYP" successfully
flashed "SAIL_SW1" successfully
flashed "SAIL_SW2" successfully
flashed "SAIL_SW3" successfully
flashed "SAIL_SW4" successfully
flashed "SAIL_SW5" successfully
flashed "SAIL_SW6" successfully
flashed "SAIL_CALIBRATION" successfully
flashed "SAIL_HYP_BKUP" successfully
flashed "SAIL_SW1_BKUP" successfully
flashed "SAIL_SW2_BKUP" successfully
flashed "SAIL_SW3_BKUP" successfully
flashed "SAIL_SW4_BKUP" successfully
flashed "SAIL_SW5_BKUP" successfully
flashed "SAIL_SW6_BKUP" successfully
flashed "SAIL_CALIBRATION_BKUP" successfully
flashed "PrimaryGPT" successfully
flashed "BackupGPT" successfully
11 patches applied

so it works with the -w flag to increase the timeout

[dcostabe]

thank you :)

[dcostabe]

@igoropaniuk can we merge it so I can inform customer to use upstream repo to use this option? or how long does it take?

[igoropaniuk]

@dcostabe Need a review/approval from one of the maintainers (@andersson @konradybcio @lumag )

[lumag]

Reopening as the issue doesn't seem to be fixed in the master branch.

[dcostabe]

@lumag @igoropaniuk @konradybcio @andersson when can we expect a fix for this issue? Customer is asking an ETA if possible. Thank you.