C123 crashing (?)

[Patrick McHardy]

Harald Welte wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> good to have you on board!
> 
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:19:04PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to run the layer1 firmware and the layer23 program
>> with an C123, however as soon as the firmware reports a layer 1
>> reset and a L1CTL_NEW_CCCH_REQ message is sent to the phone,
>> it appears to crash and sends a new PROMPT1, causing an endless
>> cycle of firmware uploads and following crashes.
> 
> that's something I haven't seen so far yet.  Are you using the C123 that
> I shipped you (i.e. from the same batch as those I and others use), or
> was it obtained somewhere else?  In the latter case, it might be some
> different hardware version or the like.  So far I haven't yet seen any
> differences, but well, what do weknow about what the manufacturer did.

Yeah, its the one you sent me. I'll try a different one tommorrow.

> btw: What about the l1test.bin.  This one does a scan over the GSM900
> band and then automatically selects the strongest ARFCN (and sends DATA
> INDICATIONS to the layer23).

That shows the same behaviour, after finding the first ARFCN it
restarts with PROMPT1:

...
Assert DSP into Reset
Releasing DSP from Reset
Setting some dsp_api.ndb values
Setting API NDB parameters
DSP Download Status: 0x0001
DSP API Version: 0x0000 0x0000
Finishing download phase
DSP Download Status: 0x0002
DSP API Version: 0x3606 0x0000
Performing power measurement over GSM900
LOST!ARFCN Top 10 Rx Level
ARFCN  22: -41 dBm
Received PROMPT1 from phone, responding with CMD
read_file(/tmp/harald/l1test.bin): file_size=37000, hdr_len=4,
dnload_len=37007

>> Any hints how to debug this further?
> 
> At this point I would say try to eliminate differences to other
> developers, i.e. what particular toolchain are you using?  Can you try
> a layer1.bin compiled by somebody else, just to determine if its
> something in the build or something related to your hardware that
> we're not doing right yet.

I'm using the gnuarm.com gcc 4.0 toolchain. I've also tried using
the builds you sent me, no differences. This is what the DSP dumper
shows:

======================================================================
Device ID code: 0xb4fb
Device Version code: 0x0000
ARM ID code: 0xfff3
cDSP ID code: 0x0128
Die ID code: 0c933a10d0039bcf
======================================================================
Assert DSP into Reset
Releasing DSP from Reset
DSP bootloader version 0x0100
DSP dump: Registers [00000-0005f]
00000 : 3000 0008 0008 0008 0e0c 0e0c 181f 2900 0000 0000 0000 0060 0000
0000 0000 3fa6
00010 : 4340 005f 0813 0014 0003 0014 4099 43c0 1100 00ff 0000 8869 8869
ffa8 0000 0000
00020 : 0000 0000 0800 0000 f501 ffff 0000 0000 7fff f802 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000
00030 : 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000