Hello:

I am not sure if this issue should be asked here, or in the MCUBoot mailing list, but I will start by asking here.

I want to change the partitions in my nrf52840, this is easy when building a zephyr system, I simply put an overlay file with my new partition table in the project directory, cmake finds it and uses it, and all is good. I tried the same thing when building mcuboot, it doesn’t work, although it looks like it should work.

I downloaded the latest mcuboot code from JuulLabs ‘git clone https://github.com/JuulLabs-OSS/mcuboot.git’.  And after running the appropriate mcuboot setup scripts I built mcuboot for zephyr.

In the project directory mcuboot/boot/zephyr I ran ‘west build -b nrf52840_mdk’, the build completes west flash is successful and the bootloader is running on the board as expected. Now I want to change the partition table (and of course the keys). I created a file nrf52840_mdk.overlay in the mcuboot/boot/zephyr directory (I also tried putting the overlay in the boards subdirectory):

&flash0 {

        /*

         * For more information, see:

         * http://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/guides/dts/index.html#flash-partitions

         */

        partitions {

                compatible = "fixed-partitions";

                #address-cells = <1>;

                #size-cells = <1>;

                boot_partition: partition@0 {

                        label = "mcuboot";

                        reg = <0x000000000 0x0000C000>;

                };

                slot0_partition: partition@c000 {

                        label = "image-0";

                        reg = <0x0000C000 0x000067000>;

                };

                slot1_partition: partition@73000 {

                        label = "image-1";

                        reg = <0x00073000 0x000067000>;

                };

                scratch_partition: partition@da000 {

                        label = "image-scratch";

                        reg = <0x000da000 0x0001c000>;

                };

                blob_partition: partition@f7000 {

                        label = "image-blob";

                        reg = <0x000f7000 0x00001000>;

                };

                /*

                 * The flash starting at 0x000f8000 and ending at (32kB)

                 * 0x000fffff is reserved for use by the application.

                 */

                /* Storage partition will be used by FCB/NFFS/NVS if enabled. */

                storage_partition: partition@f8000 {

                        label = "storage";

                        reg = <0x000f8000 0x00008000>;

                };

        };

};

As you can see this is almost exactly the same as the standard partitions except the scratch partition is 4k smaller, and I have added a 4k blob partition.

When I compile this and attempt to flash the code, the code goes into the wrong partition, because the dts.overlay file is ignored.

The CMakelists.txt file  looks reasonable, it should overlay the dts.overlay AND the nrf52840_mdk.overlay when building the dts file, but it doesn’t actually end up with two overlays.

I tried numerous combinations of adding an overlay or two on the west command line, but I couldn’t get it to work.

west build -b nrf52840_mdk -- -DDTC_OVERLAY_FILE=”whatever”

I eventually added the contents of the dts.overlay file to my nrf52840_mdk.overlay, and I commented out part of the CMakeLists.txt file to make it work, but I don’t think this is the right way to do it:

# Add a common dts overlay necessary to ensure mcuboot is linked into,

# and fits inside, the boot partition. (If the user specified a

# DTC_OVERLAY_FILE on the CMake command line, we need to append onto

# the list).

#if(DTC_OVERLAY_FILE)

#  set(DTC_OVERLAY_FILE

#    "${DTC_OVERLAY_FILE} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/dts.overlay"

#    CACHE STRING "" FORCE

#    )

#else()

#  set(DTC_OVERLAY_FILE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/dts.overlay)

#endif()

if (EXISTS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/boards/${BOARD}.overlay)

  set(DTC_OVERLAY_FILE

    "${DTC_OVERLAY_FILE} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/boards/${BOARD}.overlay"

    CACHE STRING "" FORCE

    )

endif()

What is the right way to get two overlays into the mcuboot build?

Lawrence King

Principal Developer

Connected Transport Market Unit

https://www.Irdeto.com

+1(416)627-7302

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I think you need a few more things turned on in your config file. To figure out what you need turned on I always use the menuconfig tool and diff the old and new .config files, then I take the changes and pit them in my prj.conf file

In this case I ran ‘ninja menuconfig’ in the build directory, turned on SPI, then CANBUS, then MCP25625, here is a diff between zephyr/.config.old and zephyr/.config:

> CONFIG_SPI=y

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> # CONFIG_SPI_ASYNC is not set

> # CONFIG_SPI_SLAVE is not set

> CONFIG_SPI_INIT_PRIORITY=70

> # CONFIG_SPI_LOG_LEVEL_OFF is not set

> # CONFIG_SPI_LOG_LEVEL_ERR is not set

> # CONFIG_SPI_LOG_LEVEL_WRN is not set

> CONFIG_SPI_LOG_LEVEL_INF=y

> # CONFIG_SPI_LOG_LEVEL_DBG is not set

> CONFIG_SPI_LOG_LEVEL=3

> # CONFIG_SPI_0 is not set

> # CONFIG_SPI_1 is not set

> # CONFIG_SPI_2 is not set

> # CONFIG_SPI_3 is not set

> # CONFIG_SPI_4 is not set

> # CONFIG_SPI_5 is not set

> # CONFIG_SPI_6 is not set

> CONFIG_SPI_NRFX=y

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> # CONFIG_SPI_NOR is not set

> # CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_W25QXXDV is not set

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< # CONFIG_CAN is not set

---

> CONFIG_CAN=y

> # CONFIG_CAN_LOG_LEVEL_OFF is not set

> # CONFIG_CAN_LOG_LEVEL_ERR is not set

> # CONFIG_CAN_LOG_LEVEL_WRN is not set

> CONFIG_CAN_LOG_LEVEL_INF=y

> # CONFIG_CAN_LOG_LEVEL_DBG is not set

> CONFIG_CAN_LOG_LEVEL=3

> CONFIG_CAN_INIT_PRIORITY=80

> CONFIG_CAN_WORKQ_FRAMES_BUF_CNT=4

> CONFIG_CAN_0=y

> CONFIG_CAN_1=y

> CONFIG_CAN_MCP2515=y

> CONFIG_CAN_MCP2515_OSC_FREQ=8000000

> CONFIG_CAN_MCP2515_INT_THREAD_STACK_SIZE=512

> CONFIG_CAN_MCP2515_INT_THREAD_PRIO=2

> CONFIG_CAN_MCP2515_MAX_FILTER=5

> CONFIG_CAN_MCP2515_INIT_PRIORITY=80

> # CONFIG_CAN_LOOPBACK is not set

> # CONFIG_CAN_NET is not set

My guess is you are not finding the SPI bus because you haven’t configured it.

Lawrence King

Principal Developer

+1(416)627-7302