[PATCH v2 6/6] mtd: bcm47xxpart: improve probing of nvram partition
Hauke Mehrtens
hauke at hauke-m.de
Thu Jan 24 13:03:37 EST 2013
The nvram in the nvram partition does not start at the beginning of the
partition on every device. Sometimes they are stating in the middle of
a partition or the first 0x1000 bytes are free.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
---
v2:
* 0x8004 assigned to max_bytes_to_read should be a hex value.
drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c b/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
index 986ab6e..9bcec8f 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c
@@ -19,12 +19,6 @@
/* 10 parts were found on sflash on Netgear WNDR4500 */
#define BCM47XXPART_MAX_PARTS 12
-/*
- * Amount of bytes we read when analyzing each block of flash memory.
- * Set it big enough to allow detecting partition and reading important data.
- */
-#define BCM47XXPART_BYTES_TO_READ 0x404
-
/* Magics */
#define BOARD_DATA_MAGIC 0x5246504D /* MPFR */
#define POT_MAGIC1 0x54544f50 /* POTT */
@@ -63,14 +57,17 @@ static int bcm47xxpart_parse(struct mtd_info *master,
struct trx_header *trx;
int trx_part = -1;
int last_trx_part = -1;
+ int max_bytes_to_read = 0x8004;
if (blocksize <= 0x10000)
blocksize = 0x10000;
+ if (blocksize == 0x20000)
+ max_bytes_to_read = 0x18004;
/* Alloc */
parts = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mtd_partition) * BCM47XXPART_MAX_PARTS,
GFP_KERNEL);
- buf = kzalloc(BCM47XXPART_BYTES_TO_READ, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kzalloc(max_bytes_to_read, GFP_KERNEL);
/* Parse block by block looking for magics */
for (offset = 0; offset <= master->size - blocksize;
@@ -85,7 +82,7 @@ static int bcm47xxpart_parse(struct mtd_info *master,
}
/* Read beginning of the block */
- if (mtd_read(master, offset, BCM47XXPART_BYTES_TO_READ,
+ if (mtd_read(master, offset, max_bytes_to_read,
&bytes_read, (uint8_t *)buf) < 0) {
pr_err("mtd_read error while parsing (offset: 0x%X)!\n",
offset);
@@ -100,9 +97,16 @@ static int bcm47xxpart_parse(struct mtd_info *master,
}
/* Standard NVRAM */
- if (buf[0x000 / 4] == NVRAM_HEADER) {
+ if (buf[0x000 / 4] == NVRAM_HEADER ||
+ buf[0x1000 / 4] == NVRAM_HEADER ||
+ buf[0x8000 / 4] == NVRAM_HEADER ||
+ (blocksize == 0x20000 && (
+ buf[0x10000 / 4] == NVRAM_HEADER ||
+ buf[0x11000 / 4] == NVRAM_HEADER ||
+ buf[0x18000 / 4] == NVRAM_HEADER))) {
bcm47xxpart_add_part(&parts[curr_part++], "nvram",
offset, 0);
+ offset = rounddown(offset, blocksize);
continue;
}
--
1.7.10.4
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