[PATCH] ath79: add gl-x300b-nor compatible alias

[Eric]

On Sunday, July 12th, 2026 at 05:02, José Luis Gutiérrez <lotirotodo at telefonica.net> wrote:
> Recent GL.iNet firmware releases (tested with version 4.5.22)
> identify the GL-X300B as "glinet,gl-x300b-nor" instead of
> "glinet,gl-x300b".
> 
> As a result, sysupgrade rejects official OpenWrt images when
> upgrading directly from the vendor firmware.
> 
> Add "glinet,gl-x300b-nor" as an additional supported device alias
> to allow seamless upgrades while preserving compatibility with
> existing installations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: José Luis Gutiérrez <lotirotodo at telefonica.net>
> ---
>  target/linux/ath79/image/generic.mk | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/target/linux/ath79/image/generic.mk b/target/linux/ath79/image/generic.mk
> index c5eb5895e6..6c9d72d039 100644
> --- a/target/linux/ath79/image/generic.mk
> +++ b/target/linux/ath79/image/generic.mk
> @@ -1766,6 +1766,7 @@ define Device/glinet_gl-x300b
>    DEVICE_MODEL := GL-X300B
>    DEVICE_PACKAGES := kmod-usb2
>    IMAGE_SIZE := 16000k
> +  SUPPORTED_DEVICES := glinet,gl-x300b glinet,gl-x300b-nor

Looks good to me.

You may want to mention in the commit message that a workaround
is to temporarily overwrite the board name to allow sysupgrade
to work:

$ echo 'glinet,gl-x300b' >| /tmp/sysinfo/board_name
$ sysupgrade ...

Eric

>  endef
>  TARGET_DEVICES += glinet_gl-x300b
> 
> --
> 2.43.0
> 
> 
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