Error programming MiniZed FLASH in Tutorial #4

Question

I have an issue where I am in the 04_MiniZed_FSBL_Boot_2017_01_01.pdf lab, and at the point of Programming the Flash memory. I keep coming to the “Program QSPI Flash Memory” step and it fails with the following message:

****** Xilinx Program Flash

****** Program Flash v2017.4 (64-bit)

**** SW Build 2086221 on Fri Dec 15 20:55:39 MST 2017

Connecting to hw_server @ TCP:127.0.0.1:3121

Connected to hw_server @ TCP:127.0.0.1:3121

Available targets and devices:

Target 0 : jsn-MiniZed V1-1234-oj1A

Device 0: jsn-MiniZed V1-1234-oj1A-4ba00477-0

Retrieving Flash info...

Initialization done, programming the memory

BOOT_MODE REG = 0x00000000

Problem in Initializing Hardware

Flash programming initialization failed.

ERROR: Flash Operation Failed

Labs 1-3 work fine. Have you seen this before and is there something that the instructions may lack that we are supposed to do?

jdehaven · Accepted Answer

We are now up and running!

The problem we had was that when we clicked on the Xilinx ->Program Flash tool, the “FSBL File” entry was either empty or pointing to Periph_Test.elf. Once we figured out that we needed to chang this to the FSBL from a Zynq_FSBL application, everything worked.

I’m not sure if this field is supposed to autopulate, or just uses the most recently used elf file.

Perhaps this should be clarified in the next version of the tutorial.