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Testers wanted / Tester gesucht
« on: 14. July 2018, 20:54:10 »
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Hi,
the H7 port is done, now the testing begins. And here you can help, even if you don't own a OVI40 H7.
In the attached ZIP you can find binaries for all supported devices including the OVI40 H7 as dfu or bin.
The naming is slightly different from the one normally used, so if you are using the USB drive method, you may have to rename bin files. However, the file and directory names make it quite clear for which device the files are.
PLEASE TEST THESE. These should work exactly like the 2.9.42 they are based on. So even if you don't have an H7 you can help by testing. Both bootloader and firmware should be tested if possible. Firmware is relatively risk free, just overwrite the old one.
Bootloader testing: Nothing serious can happen but it may be more difficult to recover in case of failure since in worst case you have to use jumper P6.
If you find no issues for F4 and F7, we are ready to merge the H7 soon.
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Danilo
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Re:Testers wanted / Tester gesucht
« Reply #1 on: 15. July 2018, 10:18:42 »
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ATTENTION / ACHTUNG:
The H7 bootloader via USB drive method MUST NOT BE USED. IT DOES NOT WORK CORRECTLY! WAIT FOR A FIX.
H7 Bootloader itself and DFU method works. All other processors, all should be working without problems.
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Danilo
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Re:Testers wanted / Tester gesucht
« Reply #2 on: 15. July 2018, 11:08:27 »
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Hi,
new bootloaders available, please test these, if possible. H7 it tested myself and it works with USB drive and DFU via cable.
Firmwares are unchanged, use previous package.
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Danilo
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Re:Testers wanted / Tester gesucht
« Reply #4 on: 16. July 2018, 08:52:41 »
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Guess is makes only sense for those who have H7 installed on their pcb.
Due to the fact that actual H7 have a chip design error and the STM world waits for the redesigned H7 beeing available at the end of this year there will only be a very small number of people who can even do this test.
The majority has surely F7s used on the I40.
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Re:Testers wanted / Tester gesucht
« Reply #5 on: 16. July 2018, 08:54:10 »
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FW auf OVI40 F7 arbeitet ohne erkennbare Besonderheiten.
In System-Info: Build Jul 14 2018 17:54
Bootloader aus Zeitgründen noch nicht getestet.
vy 73 aus Erfurt
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« Reply #6 on: 16. July 2018, 09:15:50 »
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Hi Peter,
Guess is makes only sense for those who have H7 installed on their pcb.
Due to the fact that actual H7 have a chip design error and the STM world waits for the redesigned H7 beeing available at the end of this year there will only be a very small number of people who can even do this test.
The majority has surely F7s used on the I40.
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the "task" was to also test F7 and F4 builds since I had to do a number of small changes in shared code which might also affect F4 and F7. And I would like to know if I introduced "stupid" bugs with these changes.
So everyone is invited. The bugs with the H7 are in fact my least concern, since I guess the number of working OVI40 UI H7 owners is clearly in the single digit range...
It seems, the STM32H7x3 Rev Y hardware design errors do not affect us. The issues in the HAL library provided by STM made it such a painful process (half of the peripheral clocks were turned off by their HAL code instead of being turned on, that caused me serious trouble to find the issue).
BTW: STM just released a new revision (X) and even a completely H7 member (the STM32H750. Which no use for us, has almost no flash, just 128k AFAIK, this is a "low-end" H7, all the computational power but only little code storage). But it shows they are now confident to have reached maturity and will probably starting to prepare ramping up the production by now.
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Danilo
EDIT: Thanks, Michael and Andreas for testing!
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Re:Testers wanted / Tester gesucht
« Reply #7 on: 16. July 2018, 10:09:54 »
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OK, if that applies to F7 testing as well i am happy to do so too.
Danilo, just to make sure to take the correct files for F7, so its your above "h7alpha" zip file, right ?
If i understand you right this one works for us F7 candidates as well, correct ?
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Re:Testers wanted / Tester gesucht
« Reply #9 on: 17. July 2018, 05:47:56 »
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Moin,
zum Bootloader:
USB-update trotz 3-maligen Versuchs hat nicht geklappt (alter BL war 4.0.0)
DFU-update --> o.k.
Start FW --> o.k.
Anzeige System-info: 4.1.0
vy 73 aus erfurt
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Re:Testers wanted / Tester gesucht
« Reply #10 on: 17. July 2018, 07:35:10 »
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Guten Morgen, habe heute versucht Bootloader zu laden.
Ausgangslage :
Fw.:D2.9.42
Bl.:4.0.0
Aus Bootloader H7 Alpha, mchf.dfu geladen > Sys. Info zeigt 4.1.0.mit
FW 2.9.42, mit FLDIGI und WSJT x getestet keine Probleme aufgetreten.
Versuch über USB Stick alte FW zu laden (2.9.35 ),download ohne
Fehler beendet.
Startversuch > PWR On >weißer Schirm blinkt ,nichts geht mehr. 
>Ausgangslage wieder hergestellt > FW 2.9.42 Bl 4.0.0 >alles wieder OK .
VY 73 Friedrich
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Re:Testers wanted / Tester gesucht
« Reply #11 on: 17. July 2018, 07:50:48 »
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Hallo Michael, Friedrich,
vielen Dank. Hat also Sinn gemacht, das etwas intensiver anzuschauen. Beim H7 geht übrigens alles, so ist das Leben.
Den F4 kann ich mir nicht anschauen, habe keinen zur Hand. Aber den F7 kann ich nach Umbau hier wieder in Betrieb nehmen und entsprechend auf Fehlersuche gehen.
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« Reply #12 on: 17. July 2018, 08:16:21 »
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Hallo Michael,
welches Fehlerbild hat sich bei Dir beim USB Update ergeben? Hast Du Fehler 4 angezeigt bekommen?
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« Reply #13 on: 17. July 2018, 08:53:23 »
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@Danilo
ich war zu schnell mit dem DFU-update; aus der Erinnerung so was wie "file not found";
bin z.Zt. unterwegs;
teste es morgen noch mal
vy 73 aus Erfurt
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« Reply #14 on: 17. July 2018, 09:17:14 »
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Hi,
regarding the issue of the not working bootloaders I made a very nasty discovery: If I compile the F7 bootloader with an older compiler (gcc 6) the bootloader does work, if I use the newest compiler the bootloader USB drive writing does not work and fails due to some error in the STM library code.
This is bad stuff. Need to look closely at this but currently have no clue if it is a problem with our setup (linker scripts etc.), a true compiler issue or a bug in our code or in the STM code which just "appears" when using the newest compiler.
One of the interesting points is the fact that the H7 code build with the newest compiler works without problems. The bootloader code is for F7 and H7 in this part virtually identical (only the flash writing and firmware start is different, but we are not using these functions in the code before we fail on the newer compiler).
It appears that the problem is related to the use of the newer GCC 7 compiler version provided by ARM (both Linux and Windows builds).
In any case, even with the older compiler, flashing does not seem to work on the F7, this was the area I made changes (not in the storing of the old firmware on the drive, this is unchanged)
I need to investigate a little more.
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