Flashing Image using 'pflash' Tool

[Lei YU]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 6:05 PM AKASH G J <akashgj91 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I tried to flash kernel image fitImage.bin to the flash memory address 0x20100000 using the following command.
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> root at zaius:/var# pflash -a 0x20100000 -f -p fitImage.bin
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> It exited with following error.
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> About to program "fitImage.bin" at 0x20100000..0x20371e20 !
> Programming & Verifying...
> [                                                  ] 0%Flash write error 3 for chunk at 0x20100000
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> Please someone help to resolve the problem.

1. pflash defaults to operate on the PNOR chip. If you want to flash the BMC
   chip, you need "-b" argument.
2.To program a flash area, you need to erase before writing, so you need "-e"
   argument.

Putting together, you command should look like:
pflash -b -e -a 0x20100000 -f -p fitImage.bin