Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: BCM5301X: Linksys EA9500 add fixed partitions

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 01.11.2020 21:08, 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.

I'm quite sure CFE is supposed to flash new firmware to the backup
partition and then mark it as main one. The old firmware partition becomes a
new backup then.

That means you need to check which partition bootloader used to handle
partitioning properly.


> +		partition@200000 {
> +			label = "firmware";
> +			reg = <0x0200000 0x01D00000>;
> +			compatible = "brcm,trx";
> +		};
> +
> +		partition@1F00000 {
> +			label = "failsafe";
> +			reg = <0x01F00000 0x01D00000>;
> +			read-only;
> +		};

Here you assume CFE always boots from the first firmware partition.

Unless EA9500 CFE does sth stupid it seems like a 50% - 50% guess.