[PATCH] ARM: dts: BCM5301X: Linksys EA9500 add fixed partitions
Florian Fainelli
f.fainelli at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 09:30:53 EDT 2020
On 10/26/2020 6:13 AM, Vivek Unune wrote:
> This router has dual paritions to store trx firmware image and
> dual partitions for nvram. The second one in each of these cases acts
> as a backup store.
>
> When tested with OpenWrt, the default partition parser causes two issues:
>
> 1. It labels both nvram partitions as nvram. In factory, second one is
> labeled devinfo.
> 2. It parses second trx image and tries to create second 'linux' partition
> and fails with - cannot create duplicate 'linux' partition. I've set this
> partition to read-only for now
>
> The following patch works around both of these issues.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Unune <npcomplete13 at gmail.com>
> ---
> .../boot/dts/bcm47094-linksys-panamera.dts | 41 +++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-linksys-panamera.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-linksys-panamera.dts
> index 5d5930edfb9d..13da16c5de68 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-linksys-panamera.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-linksys-panamera.dts
> @@ -292,3 +292,44 @@ fixed-link {
> &usb3_phy {
> status = "okay";
> };
> +
> +&nandcs {
> + partitions {
> + compatible = "fixed-partitions";
> + #address-cells = <1>;
> + #size-cells = <1>;
> +
> + partition at 0 {
> + label = "boot";
> + reg = <0x0000000 0x0080000>;
> + read-only;
> + };
> +
> + partition at 80000 {
> + label = "nvram";
> + reg = <0x080000 0x0100000>;
> + };
> +
> + partition at 180000{
> + label = "devinfo";
> + reg = <0x0180000 0x080000>;
> + };
> +
> + partition at 200000 {
> + label = "firmware";
> + reg = <0x0200000 0x01D00000>;
> + compatible = "brcm,trx";
> + };
> +
> + partition at 1F00000 {
> + label = "failsafe";
> + reg = <0x01F00000 0x01D00000>;
> + read-only;
> + };
> +
> + partition at 0x5200000 {
You would need to remove the 0x from the hex number here.
> + label = "brcmnand";
Not sure how useful naming this partition brcmnand is, can we find a
better name for it?
--
Florian
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