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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Nuand

xA5 FPGA flash issue

Open amalik18 opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

I have the xA5 BladeRF and I can't seem to flash the bitstream onto the board.

On an Ubuntu system, I grab the bitstream from the Nuand website (https://www.nuand.com/fpga/hostedxA5-latest.rbf) and save it to the following location /usr/share/Nuand/bladeRF/hostedxA5.rbf and then attempt to flash it to the board using bladeRF-cli -L /usr/share/Nuand/bladeRF/hostedxA5.rbf but it gives my the following error:

Writing FPGA to flash for autoloading...
Error: Invalid operation or parameter

Any idea how I could successfully flash my board?

amalik18 avatar Nov 19 '21 21:11 amalik18

Could we bump this a bit? It seems like the bladerf-fpga-hostedxa5 package doesnt exist in the ppa:nuandllc/bladerf repository for Ubuntu Focal. Are there efforts to add the package to the repo?

amalik18 avatar Nov 23 '21 05:11 amalik18

Created a pull-request for this - noticed that the built-in flash is not supported by the command line tools: https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF/pull/842

meriac avatar Nov 28 '21 11:11 meriac

Thank you. Greatly appreciated. Approximately how long would this take to propagate to the pp:nuandllc/bladerf repo for Ubuntu Focal?

amalik18 avatar Nov 30 '21 06:11 amalik18