[PATCH] ath79: switch to kernel loader for ar9344 CPE/WBS

Sander Vanheule sander at svanheule.net
Tue Dec 22 07:22:37 EST 2020


Hi,

On Tue, 2020-12-22 at 12:21 +0100, Petr Štetiar wrote:
> 
> does not apply anymore, so you should rebase and resend.

I was actually made aware that my approach is not recommended, so I'm
just going to retract this patch.

As described in commit 0c0bb6299 [1], the bootloader on these devices
has issues with the info in partition-table being out of sync with the
actual flash layout. So a dynamic firmware partition without a
secondary loader will most likely cause issues in the future for newly
flashed devices, and has caused issues for someone testing this on a
device that was already running OpenWrt [2].

[1] https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=0c0bb6299
[2] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/3615

Best,
Sander




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