[OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] sysupgrade: Cross-flashing NOR/NAND proof of concept

[Chuanhong Guo]

Hi!

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 8:42 AM Jeff Kletsky <lede at allycomm.com> wrote:
>
> From: Jeff Kletsky <git-commits at allycomm.com>
>   * The kernel and software for both the NOR- and NAND-resident
>     variants need to be able to read/write raw MTD as well as UBI.
>
>   * The existing sysupgrade paths already prevent flashing of a
>     NOR-intended image onto a NAND-based device, as well as the other
>     way around. As such, even if a approach like this is accepted
>     after these board names are "in the wild", sysupgrade will be
>     "safe" on "old" builds against future additions to SUPPORTED_DEVICES.

Why would someone do such a cross-flashing at the first place?
If you want to recover the firmware in SPI NAND with a firmware in SPI
NOR, You could just flash a initramfs image of the NAND variant into
NOR flash. (And vice versa)

>
>   * The MTD partitioning for both variants need to define both NOR and
>     NAND partitioning

GL-AR300M has an NOR-only variant and by adding SPI NAND node into the
NOR variant you'll add some unnecessary error messages into kernel
log.

Regards,
Chuanhong Guo

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