[OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC][PATCH] ath79-tiny: enable 4k sectors

[Stijn Segers]

Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 om 16:44 schreef Adrian Schmutzler 
<mail at adrianschmutzler.de>:
> Hi,
> 
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: openwrt-devel 
>> [mailto:openwrt-devel-bounces at lists.openwrt.org] On
>>  Behalf Of Paul Fertser
>>  Sent: Dienstag, 26. November 2019 14:01
>>  To: openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
>>  Cc: Paul Fertser <fercerpav at gmail.com>
>>  Subject: [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC][PATCH] ath79-tiny: enable 4k sectors
>> 
>>  This enables using 4kiB sectors as erase blocks for 4MiB NOR flash 
>> ICs
>>  that support it.
>> 
>>  Writeable jffs2 overlay used to store settings requires a partition 
>> with
>>  at least 5 erase blocks, so using small sectors is essential for 
>> devices
>>  with 4MiB flash.
>> 
>>  Sysupgrading a device running firmware without this feature will 
>> likely
>>  not allow to preserve configs automatically but since ath79 is
>>  considered to be in a "technology preview" state it shouldn't be a
>>  problem.
> 
> Because of this reason, we should ask ourselves whether we want to 
> backport this to 19.07, so all (non-RC) released ath79-tiny images 
> have 4k sectors, while we still can.
> Otherwise, with 20.xx having different sectors than 19.xx, users will 
> be more confused than with us now changing behavior during rc-period.

As a non-voting small time contributor I'd say: yes to pushing it to 
19.07 now. People are already being encouraged not to keep settings 
migrating from pre-19.07 ar71xx to 19.07 ath79, so two birds with one 
stone.

Cheers

Stijn

> 
> Best
> 
> Adrian
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