On 2016-09-15 12:16, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2016-09-15 11:34, Koen Vandeputte wrote: >> As indicated by Tim Harvey: >> >> The 4.4 kernel is not easily sized down to below the 1.5MB limit >> imposed by the SPI flash MTD partition mapping. Increase this >> to 2MB where it is for NOR flash devices. >> Additionally add a check that ensures the kernel fits within >> the 2MB limit. >> >> This resolves boot issues on SPI based boards such as the GW2380/82. >> >> https://github.com/Gateworks/openwrt/commit/17b860f32fe5739042445eb852109682d6ff7d99 >> >> Signed-off-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandepu...@ncentric.com> > I'm now working on the approach that I encouraged Tim to take when this > issue came up last. I think simply bumping the hardcoded kernel/rootfs > split partition sizes is a hack at best, my solution involves using > mtdsplit to make the kernel/rootfs split dynamic, like on other platforms. > From what I can tell, the old sysupgrade script is written in a way that > the image format changes will not break sysupgrade from old firmware to > new and vice versa. It's done now and pushed to my staging tree: https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/nbd/staging.git;a=commit;h=aa58ee42c93136a8e158ef317cad20806001c039
Please take a look at the commit description, test it, and let me know what you think. - Felix _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
