Loading Flash via JTAG

[TolleWurst]

Hello,

I am using PULPissimo and currently trying to load the S25FS256S flash via JTAG.
The goal is to be able to load an image, for example an image of the hello_world test, into flash and execute it.
At the moment the pre-loading feature of the flash is used to already have the stimulus in the flash. If the standalone boot is used, the test is correctly executed and the expected "hello" is printed.
This should be changed so that instead of using the pre-loading feature, the stimulus is loaded into flash via JTAG.
I have tried to find information on how you would go about doing that and i'm unsure if this is possible at the moment (without changes or expansions to the jtag_pkg and maybe further changes).

What i found are a few issues regarding similiar topics:
#88
#36
#26

So now i am wondering, is it possible to load an image (for example of the hello_world test, or any other image actually) into the S25FS256S flash via JTAG.
If yes, what would be the necessary steps to do so?
If no, what changes or extensions would be needed to be able to do so?

Edit: Writing via JTAG is possible.

Edit2: So writing into L2 via JTAG works well and fine, but is writing into Flash via JTAG supported? I already mentioned this Issue: #36 and wondered if anything changed now that little over a year went by. Any info is greatly appreciated.

[bluewww]

The flash memory s25fs256s is connected to the qspi. We currently don't have a script to flash the chip since we normally run the simulation with the chip already preflashed as you mentioned.

So the way to do this is to write data from the jtag to the L2 and then engage the udma to transfer the data to the flash. The debug module can access the whole address space, thus also the memory mapped udma.
@haugoug

[LPLATU]

So after loading the relevant data into L2 using JTAG (either using debug_mode_if.load_L2 or debug_mode_if.writeMem) how would you recommend loading that data into the flash?

I'm thinking one way would be to write a program using the SPIM driver from the PULP Kernel Library. But this would require the core to do the work.

You said that the udma is memory mapped, so is there currently a way to to load the data from L2 to the flash while halting the core (maybe via SPI?), similar to using JTAG to load the data into L2 first?
And if there is a way, how would i go about doing this? Is there a package similar to the jtag_pkg.sv which offers tasks to write from L2 to the flash?

Thank you,
LPLATU