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On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:06 AM Andreas Grapentin <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On 18. Jan 2023, at 14:54, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, January 17, 2023, Andreas Grapentin <[email protected] 
> > <mailto:[email protected]>>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> U-Boot SPL 2013.07-07841-g569c37da7d-dirty (Jan 17 2023 - 19:37:10)
> >> Board: EOMA68_A20
> >> DRAM: 1024 MiB
> >> CPU: 960000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2
> >> SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
> >
> > okaay the SPL loader will now be trying to look on sd/mmc 0
> > for a u-boot image.  clearly it is not finding it.
>
> From looking at the sunxi spl code, this is the enumeration of all detected 
> mmc slots,
> not the configured one. It would be good to compare the output to a known 
> good board.

ah - right. then you may have an earlier revision of the EOMA68-A20
which does indeed have sd/mmc 0 attached to the micro-sd socket.

in which case the advised build instructions - which are for the
*newer* EOMA68-A20 - will obviously not work.

> I started looking at the micro desktop board with my multimeter and did some 
> checks, but it’s difficult without reference to a known good board. But what 
> is maybe noteworthy is that of the three larger capacitors on the board just 
> behind the power socket, both sides of all of them are connected to ground.

that's a serious short, yes, if the resistance between them is zero
(or close to it).  check the 5v rail.

> I assume that part of the board is responsible for the power control?

7-22v down to 5v, yes.


> I’ve noticed that the boot loops above are pretty random —
> it might be possible I’m not supplying enough power to the microsd slot,
> I’ll try to use a stronger power supply.

that would be unwise as it will cause further burnouts due to the short.

> Otherwise, I’m pretty certain I’m using the correct microsd slot, because 
> configuring any other slot in boards.cfg results in timeout errors in the MMC 
> code, which leads to the reported error -1

you are better off powering from USB-OTG entirely bypassing
the MD or removing the RT8288 entirely from the PCB.

the problem with not using the MD is you have to insert wires
directly into the EOMA68-A20 tx/rx and GND holes.  done that
before, it was a pain-in-the-ass but it worked.  you do NOT need
power because they are open-drain.

l.

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