[OpenWrt-Devel] loading calibration data from UBI volume

[John Crispin]

On 31/01/2016 23:38, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> currently we (Mathias and I) are planning to simplify the installation
> procedure for a lantiq based device (HH5A).
> Currently the installation steps require copying the calibration data
> from an UBI volume on the original firmware and moving the data to a
> separate mtd partition. This way the mac-addresses and ath9k caldata
> can be given using phandles to that partition in mtd-mac-address and
> ath,eep-flash.
> 
> However, to simplify the installation we would like to get rid of
> those manual steps and leave the caldata as an UBI volume.
> This brings up two problems:
> 1. mtd-mac-address cannot be used anymore because we don't have an mtd
> device anymore
> 2. ath,eep-flash has the same problem
> 
> I have come up with two ideas for which I'd like to hear your comments
> (other ideas are always welcome too):
> - moving all handling from kernel-space to userspace by utilizing the
> request_firmware() mechanism (this might cause problems because on the
> lantiq target the ath9k caldata is needed very early for the PCI fixup
> mechanism)

this is the old method that should be avoided if possible

> - implementing ubivol-mac-address and ath,eep-ubivol (= similar to
> mtd-mac-address and ath,eep-flash) which get the name of an ubi volume
> and the offset passed

this is the preferred version if it does nto involve to uch code.

also feel free to send emails To: me as i am the LTQ Maintainer and i
wrote the UBI code in openwrt.

	John





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