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Started 3 years ago by kwesadilo
Latest reply from tormod

kwesadilo
Member
My class project group just got a Maple board, and we are trying to set up our development environments. None of us have used Maple before. My partner uses a Mac, and she couldn't get access to make and gcc through XCode, so we installed VirtualBox on her machine and set up a VM with Ubuntu 11.10 (32-bit). She was then able to get through the entire toolchain setup guide at http://leaflabs.com/docs/unix-toolchain.html.

I run Gentoo (64-bit) natively. I was able to get down through the compilation part without issue. But when I run make install I get the following:
```
Install target: flash
./support/scripts/reset.py && sleep 1 && dfu-util -a1 -d 1EAF:0003 -D build/maple.bin -R
You appear to be using 64-bit Linux. Let us know if this works.
Could not find Maple serial port; defaulting to /dev/maple.
Using /dev/maple as Maple serial port
Failed to open serial port /dev/maple for reset
dfu-util 0.5

(C) 2005-2008 by Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc.
(C) 2010-2011 Tormod Volden (DfuSe support)
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY

dfu-util does currently only support DFU version 1.0

Filter on vendor = 0x1eaf product = 0x0003
Opening DFU USB device... ID 1eaf:0003
Run-time device DFU version 011a
Found DFU: [1eaf:0003] devnum=0, cfg=1, intf=0, alt=1, name="DFU Program FLASH 0x08005000"
Claiming USB DFU Interface...
Setting Alternate Setting #1 ...
Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0
dfuIDLE, continuing
DFU mode device DFU version 011a
Device returned transfer size 1024
No valid DFU suffix signature
Warning: File has no DFU suffix
Error: Could not read name, sscanf returned0
Error: Failed to parse memory layout
make: *** [install] Error 1
```
When I Google for these errors, all I get are listings of the dfu-util source code. My suspicion is that the last two lines are the only ones that are actually problems, but I don't know what any of it means. I can still see the board. When I run dfu-util -l (while in perpetual boot mode), I get this:
```
Found Runtime: [0a5c:2110] devnum=0, cfg=1, intf=3, alt=0, name="UNDEFINED"
Found DFU: [1eaf:0003] devnum=0, cfg=1, intf=0, alt=0, name="DFU Pro"
Found DFU: [1eaf:0003] devnum=0, cfg=1, intf=0, alt=1, name="DFU Program FLASH 0x08005000"
```
I note that make install expressed doubt about whether this should work on 64-bit Linux. To drill down further, I might try setting up a 32-bit VM on my machine, but I would really like to get this working natively. Does anyone have any ideas?

According to the Git log, I have the latest library version, which was updated on 10/20/11, if that matters. Also, this is my first post on a bbPress forum, so I'm sorry if my formatting is messed up.

I would appreciate it if someone could shed some light on this.
Posted 3 years ago #
bnewbold
Ex-Leaflabs

hi kwesadilo!

IIRC we had problems with the "most recent" version of dfu-util as of a year or two ago and shipped the Maple IDE with an older version instead. You should be able to use the 32bit statically compiled binary on a 64bit debian-based machine, and hopefully Gentoo as well:

https://github.com/leaflabs/maple-ide/blob/master/build/linux/dist/tools/dfu-util

I get:
$ ./dfu-util -V dfu-util - (C) 2007 by OpenMoko Inc. This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
dfu-util version 0.1+svnexported

Send the leafblowers an email with your results and bug them to update the toolchain docs!

[disclaimer: not an official developer]

Posted 3 years ago #
bnewbold
Ex-Leaflabs

Actually, what I just wrote might be total out-of-date FUD:

http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=261#post-1938

Posted 3 years ago #
tormod
Member

Hi, there is something wrong with your Maple firmware. It reports DFU version 1.1a which is the version reported by DfuSe enabled devices, but the interface name does not indicate a DfuSe device - there is no encoded memory map in it. This is why dfu-util quits with an error.

Posted 3 years ago #
kwesadilo
Member
Dang, I figured it would email me when people replied. I should have been on this sooner.

I don't think I'm getting a 64-bit executable/32-bit library linking error. dfu-util runs. It just doesn't upload the program. It might be the Maple firmware version thing.

I set up a 32-bit Kubuntu VM using VirtualBox. When I try to make install using that, I get
```
abe@vbox1:~/libmaple$ make install
Install target: flash
./support/scripts/reset.py && sleep 1                  && dfu-util -a1 -d 1EAF:0003 -D build/maple.bin -R
Could not find Maple serial port; defaulting to /dev/maple.
Using /dev/maple as Maple serial port
Failed to open serial port /dev/maple for reset
dfu-util - (C) 2005-2008 by Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc.
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY

dfu-util does currently only support DFU version 1.0

Opening DFU USB device... ID 1eaf:0003
Found Runtime: [0x1eaf:0x0003] devnum=3, cfg=0, intf=0, alt=1, name="DFU Program FLASH 0x08005000"
Claiming USB DFU Interface...
Setting Alternate Setting #1 ...
Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0
dfuIDLE, continuing
Device returned transfer size 1024
bytes_per_hash=589
Copying data from PC to DFU device
Starting download: [##################################################] finished!
state(8) = dfuMANIFEST-WAIT-RESET, status(0) = No error condition is present
Done!
Resetting USB to switch back to runtime mode
```
The program I sent appears to run on the Maple.

However, I had to verify this using someone else's computer, because I can't complete the instructions for connecting with screen. I have installed the udev rules (on host and guest machines), but when I plug the Maple in after resetting it, I see no file matching /dev/ttyACM*. On my native machine (Gentoo), I see
Found Runtime: [0a5c:2110] devnum=0, cfg=1, intf=3, alt=0, name="UNDEFINED"
when I run dfu-util -l, and I see the device in lsusb output. However, there is no /dev/ttyACM* device. There is not even the usual /dev/ttyUSB.

On my 32-bit VM (Kubuntu), I can see the Maple using dfu-util when it is in persistent debug mode. But after I reset into normal mode, I can't see anything from Kubuntu using dfu-util -l. There is no /dev/ttyACM* either. My partner has a similar issue with her Mac: She can see the device in normal mode from OSX but not from her Ubuntu VM.
Posted 3 years ago #
tormod
Member

Your last run with dfu-util above is using some earlier version of dfu-util which did not have DFU 1.1a (DfuSe) support, and it is just treating the device as a DFU 1.0 device. So it seems like your device is really 1.0 but declares itself as 1.1a. Who wrote this firmware?

The 0a5c:2110 device you see with dfu-util -l is a bluetooth controller, which also can be updated over DFU.

UPDATE: I found what I think is the Maple firmware source and this version issue was fixed two years ago: https://github.com/leaflabs/maple-bootloader/commit/95e1150ddcbb6e0e4c4e2ff9f85a0e6d9d620407 (well, it seems it was corrected to 0.1 instead of 1.0)

Why is the older, unfinished code in use? Was it released and shipped on commercial units?

Posted 3 years ago #
tormod
Member

UPDATE 2: The firmware "fix" I pointed to above is only partial and was apparently not tested enough. So all currently shipping firmwares are broken. I will start a new thread and get in touch with the right developers to have this sorted out properly. In the meantime, dfu-util 0.5 will not work with Maple devices.

Posted 3 years ago #
kwesadilo
Member

Thanks for the advice. My Kubuntu VM has dfu-util 0.3, so what you're saying makes sense.

On Gentoo, I downgraded to dfu-util 0.4. (Only 0.1, 0.4, and 0.5 are available in the repository). Unfortunately, it immediately segfaults when I try to upload a program or list devices. This being Gentoo, that is conceivably a fixable problem. I saw some Debian bugs from a few months back mentioning something like that, but I don't know what the resolution was yet. I'll dig into it a little more unless anyone already knows what's going on.

Posted 3 years ago #
tormod
Member

As I have written in http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=1410#post-10356 I hope dfu-util 0.6 will work around this firmware bug.

Posted 3 years ago #

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