[Ovmsdev] ESP-WROVER-B

[Michael Balzer]

Mark,

the new build is in my edge directory:

https://ovms.dexters-web.de/firmware/ota/v3.1/edge/

Regards,
Michael


Am 11.12.19 um 10:27 schrieb Michael Balzer:
> Mark,
>
> I'll do a new build this afternoon.
>
> It's really nice we're getting more RAM on the fly.
>
> Btw, we will need a separate build config once they also fix the PSRAM bug on the core. The workaround eats some performance (not too much, but still).
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
>
> Am 11.12.19 um 04:40 schrieb Mark Webb-Johnson:
>> _*Short story:*_
>>
>> I suggest you set your development and production sdkconfig to:
>>
>>     CONFIG_SPIRAM_TYPE_AUTO=y
>>     CONFIG_SPIRAM_TYPE_ESPPSRAM32=
>>     CONFIG_SPIRAM_SIZE=-1
>>
>>
>> If you prefer menus, you can find that in 'make menuconfig': Compont config / ESP32-specific / SPI RAM config / Type of SPI RAM chip in use. Set it to
>> Auto-detect.
>>
>> _*Long story:*_
>>
>> We previously used a hard-coded selection of "ESP-PSRAM32 or IS25WP032”, but that won’t work with the new ESP32-WROVER-B modules we are now using (as
>> Espressif have discontinued the 4MB versions). Those new modules have 8MB PSRAM and are "ESP-PSRAM64 or LY68L6400”. The auto-detect setting seems to work
>> well, and can detect and support the installed PSRAM automatically.
>>
>> With this new setting, we get:
>>
>>     4MB PSRAM module:
>>
>>     I (895) psram: This chip is ESP32-D0WD
>>     I (896) spiram: Found 32MBit SPI RAM device
>>
>>     8MB PSRAM module:
>>
>>     I (882) psram: This chip is ESP32-D0WD
>>     I (882) spiram: Found 64MBit SPI RAM device
>>
>>
>> Without this auto-detect, OTA updating to our latest firmware will produce an endless loop:
>>
>>     I (882) psram: This chip is ESP32-D0WD
>>     E (882) spiram: Expected 4096KiB chip but found 8192KiB chip. Bailing out..
>>     E (883) cpu_start: Failed to init external RAM!
>>     abort() was called at PC 0x400817fc on core 0
>>
>>
>> Annoyingly, the bootloader code to detect a failure to load the OTA firmware doesn’t work, so it can’t fall back to factory.
>>
>> It can be recovered to factory using ESPTOOL:
>>
>>     esptool.py --chip esp32 --port <path-to-serial-port> --baud 921600 --before default_reset --after hard_reset write_flash -z --flash_mode dio --flash_freq
>>     40m --flash_size detect 0xd000 ota_data_initial.bin 0x8000 partitions.bin
>>
>>
>> I have built an edge release based on this, and will leave for 24 hours. If ok, I will then move that to EAP and to MAIN at the weekend. This will be
>> 3.2.008. We need to get this out ASAP, as recipients of the new modules may do an OTA update and have issues (so far only 1, and he recovered using esptool).
>>
>> @Michael: I suggest you follow with your server. Let me know the path to your new update (from SPIRAM branch) and I will test on the ESP32-WROVER-B 8MB
>> module I have here.
>>
>> Regards, Mark.
>>
>>> On 9 Dec 2019, at 9:42 PM, Mark Webb-Johnson <mark at webb-johnson.net <mailto:mark at webb-johnson.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Our latest wifi-only modules are coming with ESP-WROVER-B module, and that includes 8MB PSRAM/SPIRAM (not 4MB, our standard so far). I have had one report
>>> from the field that factory firmware 3.2.002 works fine, but 3.2.005 crashes on boot with an error:
>>>
>>>     (824) psram: This chip is ESP32-D0WD[[0m
>>>     (824) spiram: Expected 4096KiB chip but found 8192KiB chip. Bailing out..
>>>
>>>
>>> I see we have this in our sdkconfig:
>>>
>>>     Type of SPI RAM chip in use
>>>      ( ) Auto-detect
>>>      (X) ESP-PSRAM32 or IS25WP032
>>>      ( ) ESP-PSRAM64 or LY68L6400
>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure when that appeared, but I guess between 3.2.002 and 3.2.005.
>>>
>>> The user experiencing this problem is knowledgeable (he managed to recover back to factory), so I am trying a 3.2.007 build with him, with that setting set
>>> to auto-detect.
>>>
>>> Regards, Mark.
>>>
>>
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