[FS#3471] Mikrotik RB911-5Hn propper nand detection failed

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FS#3471 - Mikrotik RB911-5Hn propper nand detection failed
User who did this - Alexandros C. Couloumbis (acoul)

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greetings rogerpueyo,

thank you for the feedback

tftp booting openwrt-19.07.4-ar71xx-mikrotik-rb-nor-flash-16M-initramfs-kernel gets into:
  FAILSAFE MODE
here are the contents you asked {empty}
  ls -laR /sys/firmware/mikrotik/

  /sys/firmware/mikrotik/:
  drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:00 .
  drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:00 ..
and here is the RouterOS system details:
  model: 911-5HnD
  firmware-type: ar9344
  factory-firmware: 3.10
  current-firmware: 6.47.7
  upgrade-firmware: 6.47.7
and here is my update on the target/linux/ar71xx/base-files/lib/ar71xx.sh
  |-       *"911-5Hn")
  |+       *"911"|\
  |+       *"911L"|\
  |+       *"911-5Hn"|\
  |+       *"911-5HnD")
                name="rb-911-5hn"
though, disabling the CONFIG_ATH79_MACH_RBSXTLITE option, I am unable to successfully tftp boot the device (I have no serial access to it yet)

looking at [[https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=eb9e3651dd1a081e0d908e7e5162d6683098c1f3|this commit]] (dated 2018):
  Notes:
  * Older versions of these boards might be equipped with a NAND
    flash chip instead of the SPI NOR device. Those boards are not
    supported (yet).
probably the problem & the confusion is due to this [[https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=3519322e6238913eeae717a598c9760ddf40436c|earlier commit]] (dated 2014):

  The new RB911L series is also supported as a result

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