Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: BCM5301X: Linksys EA9500 add fixed partitions

[Florian Fainelli]

On 10/26/2020 6:13 AM, Vivek Unune wrote:
> This router has dual paritions to store trx firmware image and
> dual partitions for nvram. The second one in each of these cases acts
> as a backup store.
>
> When tested with OpenWrt, the default partition parser causes two issues:
>
> 1. It labels both nvram partitions as nvram. In factory, second one is
> labeled devinfo.
> 2. It parses second trx image and tries to create second 'linux' partition
> and fails with - cannot create duplicate 'linux' partition. I've set this
> partition to read-only for now
>
> The following patch works around both of these issues.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Unune <npcomplete13@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   .../boot/dts/bcm47094-linksys-panamera.dts    | 41 +++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-linksys-panamera.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-linksys-panamera.dts
> index 5d5930edfb9d..13da16c5de68 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-linksys-panamera.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-linksys-panamera.dts
> @@ -292,3 +292,44 @@ fixed-link {
>   &usb3_phy {
>   	status = "okay";
>   };
> +
> +&nandcs {
> +	partitions {
> +		compatible = "fixed-partitions";
> +		#address-cells = <1>;
> +		#size-cells = <1>;
> +
> +		partition@0 {
> +			label = "boot";
> +			reg = <0x0000000 0x0080000>;
> +			read-only;
> +		};
> +
> +		partition@80000 {
> +			label = "nvram";
> +			reg = <0x080000 0x0100000>;
> +		};
> +
> +		partition@180000{
> +			label = "devinfo";
> +			reg = <0x0180000 0x080000>;
> +		};
> +
> +		partition@200000 {
> +			label = "firmware";
> +			reg = <0x0200000 0x01D00000>;
> +			compatible = "brcm,trx";
> +		};
> +
> +		partition@1F00000 {
> +			label = "failsafe";
> +			reg = <0x01F00000 0x01D00000>;
> +			read-only;
> +		};
> +
> +		partition@0x5200000 {

You would need to remove the 0x from the hex number here.

> +			label = "brcmnand";

Not sure how useful naming this partition brcmnand is, can we find a 
better name for it?
--
Florian