Handling different flash hardware and partition layouts

[Milan Krstić]

Hi,

I am working on adding support for TCL HH500V (Vodafone Gigacube 5G
B157) which is ipq8072 and I've realized that there are boxes out
there with a NAND+NOR, but also with NAND alone.

As far as I can tell u-boot handles this by patching the corresponding
device tree nodes with appropriate partitions as needed. How do we
normally handle this in OpenWrt - two separate devices looks like an
overkill with users possibly not being able to tell the HW versions
apart, while at the same time depending on flash layout from u-boot
leaves us with less flexibility and can cause problems in the future.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Milan