We recently bought some TK1 modules and all boards state that there is no Toradex config block. Because of that all boards have the same default MAC address…
Are new modules supposed to be shipped without config block? This would be an issue for our production team…
@qojote, Modules are supposed to be shipped with config block. We found an issue with our programing scripts which lead to certain modules without config block programmed. The issue is documented in our errata document, Errata #6:
In this document we also mention how to program the config block. Sorry for the inconvenience and I hope you are able to fix the issue with the information provided.
By the way, we re-programmed all modules which were affected which were still in our warehouses and also improved our programming scripts. You won’t receive such modules anymore.
I noticed this because our update scripts that works via TFTP doesn’t work because the ethaddr is not set in the bootloader.
I have added the log of the bootloader starting and the environment variables in the attached text file. Directly posting it here destroyed the layout.
I found the reason for this in the combination of a new eMMC on the IT modules with an increased boot partition together with the update to boot from said boot partition.
Workarounds would be
using the U-Boot command ‘cfgblock create’ command
using the Toradex Easy Installer to install anything, even the Toradex Easy Installer itself
copy the config block to its correct position with U-Boot
If Colibri modules also suffer from this error, please do update the Colibri Errata document (https://docs.toradex.com/103380-colibri-imx6-errata.pdf) with the serial numbers like that one for Apalis TK1 (Errata #6: Missing Config Block Data)
Thanks for your input. We will forward this to our quality assurance team who will take it further and decide on it.
By the way, you should have received an email with more information about this issue as we send an information email out to all customers which were affected by this issue. Can you confirm you received this email? It was sent to the email address which was used when ordering products.