M487 issues with SPIM DMA Write

[sittinhawk]

I've been messing around with the SPIM module to interface with a quad flash chip. So far I have achieved:

1) Using Normal IO Mode to read, erase, write flash
2) Using DMM mode to read flash

So the next task was to use DMA Write Mode to write to flash. I followed the instructions listed in 6.22.5.5 Move Data from System Memory to SPI Flash (DMA Write Mode), and it technically works (flash chip is written with expected values, and I can verify this with Normal IO Mode), but what is weird is that:

1) Neither of the methods listed to determine if the DMA transfer is complete seems to work. It says "Wait for interrupt or poll the SPIMEN (SPIM_CTL1[0]) until it turns to 0." but neither of these things ever happen, it will just waits forever until I reset the device
2) If I just delay a few seconds after performing the DMA Write, I can verify that it worked using Normal IO Mode, but the DMM mode now seems to be broken, and returns all zeros (and I did try it with and without cache invalidate). Once I reset the device, now DMM mode works again and I can verify that flash contents are correct.

Any ideas what I need to do? Seems like the hardware is performing the DMA write task but having trouble terminating successfully.

[sittinhawk]

Never mind, I solved it. My software bug was resetting DWDELSEL to zero, and apparently the hardware doesn't like this value to be zero. All working now

[morgandu]

Never mind, I solved it. My software bug was resetting DWDELSEL to zero, and apparently the hardware doesn't like this value to be zero. All working now

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