[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 2/3] ath79: add support for Netgear WNDR4300 v2

[Michal Cieslakiewicz]

Hello David!

> 
> Do you know if there is a hard limit to the kernel size? OpenWrt does
> not support relocation of UBI as doing so would interfere with wear
> leveling. This means the kernel size is more or less fixed if we want
> to be able to use sysupgrade.
> 

AFAIK there is no problem with increasing kernel size here.
Unfortunately I couldn't find proper u-boot source for this router, so
my claim is not based on actual code analysis. However there was
a similar question for WNDR4300(v1) and u-boot definitely allowed
kernels > 2 MiB then.

>
> I personally would prefer to allocate 4 (or even 8) megabytes to the
> kernel partition. This would give us a lot more flexibility (ath79
> kernel is already at ~1.8MB the last time I've checked.
>

That's reasonable, it's better to reserve space for future developments
than issue a patch every time kernel size grows over a certain
boundary. So in v2 I will assign 4 MiBs here - and prepare similar patch
for WNDR4300(v1) to keep them compatible.
 
> 
> The firmware node can be dropped, as kernel and UBI partitions are
> fixed.
> 

OK then, I just wasn't sure if "netgear,uimage" compatibility string is
not used somwehere in the install/config/sysupgrade process. If not,
then indeed it's redundant.

Best regards
Michal

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