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

[Vivek Unune]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 06:30:53AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Sure, I'll fix this in next version

> 
> > +			label = "brcmnand";
> 
> Not sure how useful naming this partition brcmnand is, can we find a better
> name for it?

I'll be more than happy to rename this that makes sense. Factory uses this
name as well. This is used as a general persistent storage for system cofigs.
Could we name it System?

Thanks,

Vivek