[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/3] ipq806x: add NAND flash support

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2015-08-07 18:50, Mathieu Olivari wrote:
> Actually, I was asking myself the same questions yesterday. I was leaning
> towards dts for the reasons you mention below as well; the problem is on ref
> designs, there is no "standard" layout. The flash layout changes with time
> (an AP148 with an old boot binary blob will have a different layout than the
> same AP148 with a new boot image), sometimes with a certain application
> (some boots will have an SMEM with 2 kernels & 2 rootfs for dual
> partitioning). For this reason, and on ref designs, it'd be easier to have
> one dts and the kernel adapting at run-time, than multiplying the dts files
> and having to pick the right one based on your current SMEM content.
> 
> I would agree that it's the exception though; on most retail routers, you
> would have one SMEM per SKU, i.e. one layout per dts.
> 
> I'm thinking the most flexible way would probably to have the opportunity in
> dts to select between "dynamic" smem partitioning, or regular "fixed"
> partitioning. Not sure if something like this has ever been done in the
> past; but we could explore it.
The bcm53xx target in OpenWrt works like that. The mtd driver specifies
two partition parsers, first ofpart, then a custom one.
If ofpart fails to find any partitions, the custom one gets to specify
the layout. We could probably make use of something like that for ipq as
well.

- Felix
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