[PATCH] ath79/zyxel_nbg6716: resize kernel partition to 6MiB and reenable again

André Valentin avalentin at marcant.net
Sat May 22 08:00:35 PDT 2021


The bootloader happily accepts this.
But devices need a fresh reinstall because of resulting ubi partition
changes. Therefore a  sysupgrade will brick your device.

Please install a fresh factory image via bootloader.
Alternatively, you can flash sysupgrade-6M-Kernel.bin with
 zcat sysupgrade-6M-Kernel.bin | mtd -r -e /dev/mtd 3 write - /dev/mtd3

This may thow an error, because it is a 256M image. There are
devices out there with this flash size.

Notice that you will always loose configuration.

Signed-off-by: André Valentin <avalentin at marcant.net>
---
 .../linux/ath79/dts/qca9558_zyxel_nbg6716.dts |  4 ++--
 target/linux/ath79/image/nand.mk              | 24 +++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/target/linux/ath79/dts/qca9558_zyxel_nbg6716.dts b/target/linux/ath79/dts/qca9558_zyxel_nbg6716.dts
index 9aee8c362c..411b086188 100644
--- a/target/linux/ath79/dts/qca9558_zyxel_nbg6716.dts
+++ b/target/linux/ath79/dts/qca9558_zyxel_nbg6716.dts
@@ -147,12 +147,12 @@
 
 		partition at 500000 {
 			label = "kernel";
-			reg = <0x500000 0x400000>;
+			reg = <0x500000 0x600000>;
 		};
 
 		partition at 900000 {
 			label = "ubi";
-			reg = <0x900000 0x7700000>;
+			reg = <0xb00000 0x7500000>;
 		};
 	};
 };
diff --git a/target/linux/ath79/image/nand.mk b/target/linux/ath79/image/nand.mk
index caaa01c92d..37a5713ff1 100644
--- a/target/linux/ath79/image/nand.mk
+++ b/target/linux/ath79/image/nand.mk
@@ -236,6 +236,15 @@ TARGET_DEVICES += netgear_wndr4500-v3
 
 define Device/zyxel_nbg6716
   SOC := qca9558
+  DEVICE_COMPAT_VERSION := 2.0
+  DEVICE_COMPAT_MESSAGE := Kernel partition has been resized to 6M. \
+	A sysupgrade will brick your device. \
+	Please install a fresh factory image via bootloader. \
+	Alternatively, you can flash sysupgrade-6M-Kernel.bin with \
+	zcat sysupgrade-6M-Kernel.bin | mtd -r -e /dev/mtd3 write - /dev/mtd3 .\
+	This may thow an error, because it is a 256M image. There are \
+	devices out there with this flash size. \
+	Notice that you will always loose configuration.
   DEVICE_VENDOR := ZyXEL
   DEVICE_MODEL := NBG6716
   DEVICE_PACKAGES := kmod-usb2 kmod-usb-ledtrig-usbport kmod-ath10k-ct \
@@ -243,19 +252,20 @@ define Device/zyxel_nbg6716
   RAS_BOARD := NBG6716
   RAS_ROOTFS_SIZE := 29696k
   RAS_VERSION := "OpenWrt Linux-$(LINUX_VERSION)"
-  KERNEL_SIZE := 4096k
+  KERNEL_SIZE := 6144k
   BLOCKSIZE := 128k
   PAGESIZE := 2048
   KERNEL := kernel-bin | append-dtb | uImage none | zyxel-buildkerneljffs | \
-	check-size 4096k
-  IMAGES := sysupgrade.tar sysupgrade-4M-Kernel.bin factory.bin
+	check-size 6144k
+  KERNEL_INITRAMFS := kernel-bin | append-dtb | uImage none | \
+	zyxel-buildkerneljffs | zyxel-factory
+  IMAGES := sysupgrade.tar sysupgrade-6M-Kernel.bin factory.bin
   IMAGE/sysupgrade.tar/squashfs := append-rootfs | pad-to $$$$(BLOCKSIZE) | \
 	sysupgrade-tar rootfs=$$$$@ | append-metadata
-  IMAGE/sysupgrade-4M-Kernel.bin/squashfs := append-kernel | \
+  IMAGE/sysupgrade-6M-Kernel.bin/squashfs := append-kernel | \
 	pad-to $$$$(KERNEL_SIZE) | append-ubi | pad-to 263192576 | gzip
-  IMAGE/factory.bin := append-kernel | pad-to $$$$(KERNEL_SIZE) | append-ubi | \
-	zyxel-factory
+  IMAGE/factory.bin := append-kernel | pad-to $$$$(KERNEL_SIZE) | \
+	append-ubi | zyxel-factory
   UBINIZE_OPTS := -E 5
-  DEFAULT := n
 endef
 TARGET_DEVICES += zyxel_nbg6716
-- 
2.20.1




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