Hi Tathagata,
On 12/12/2011 05:51 AM, Tathagata Das wrote: > Hi Hauke, > WNR3500Lv2 is BCM5357 based. I did not see any SSB based NAND flash. So > I will remove that section from my patch and repost it. Also I will try > to use functions provided in drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c if possible. I > w ill repost the patch before next weekend so that you can look closely > into it. That sounds good. > I have made some progress in USB section for the same device and > currently I am getting probe. However it will be really helpful I can > use your patch. I have seen a list patches available at > https://github.com/hauke/openwrt/tree/linux-3.2/target/linux/brcm47xx/patches-3.2. > Could you please tell me the exact name of the patch ? It is divided into many patches as it consist of different modules. The patches for usb are from 0028 to 0033. > > I will also submit bootlog, vendor firmware and OpenWRT firmware along > with my modified patch. nice. > > Regards, > Tathagata > > On 12/11/2011 10:56 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >> Hi Tathagata, >> >> in general this patch looks good and it could be accepted. I will look >> closely into it next weekend, I do not have time for now. >> >> I just saw your post regarding usb: >> https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=148104 I have patches to add >> a usb driver for bcma devices: >> https://github.com/hauke/openwrt/tree/linux-3.2 I will try to add it to >> OpenWrt trunk next weekend or so, but you could try it now. >> >> Using drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c, if it provides some of the functions >> needed, it would be nice to use them. >> >> Is the WNR3500L V2.0 BCM5357 based? I saw that there are some >> enhancements in the NAND driver needed to get support for the BCM4706 >> used on the WNDR4500. >> If you have not seen any and I do not think there will be any SSB based >> device with NAND flash out there, we do not need to add support for it >> to ssb. >> A boot log with the vendor firmware and OpenWrt would be nice, also to >> see what other chips and cores are in that device. >> >> Hauke >> >> On 12/11/2011 05:49 PM, tathagata wrote: >>> Hi Hauke, >>> Thanks. >>> Netgear WNR3500Lv2 hardware uses this flash type. I tested this patch on >>> this particular platform. It uses BCMA based devices. I will send you >>> kernel .config file and boot log message if you want. >>> I shall look into drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c file and give you my >>> analysis. >>> >>> Can this patch be accepted ? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Tathagata >>> >>> On 11.12.2011 05:48, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >>>> On 12/09/2011 08:16 AM, Tathagata Das wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> Attached is the kernel patch to support brcm47xx NAND flash. >>>>> I have used latest trunk source code to create this patch. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Tathagata<tathag...@alumnux.com> >>>> Hi Tathagata, >>>> >>>> nice patch. >>>> I had a quick look over your big patch. I did not know that there is a >>>> third flash type used on brcm43xx Broadcom devices, on what device did >>>> you found it? I did a search in the source code on my hard disk and the >>>> WNDR4500 source code was the only containing a driver for this NAND >>>> chips. Is is really used on SSB and BCMA based devices? >>>> >>>> Sometimes there is "serial flash" in the header and not "NAND flash". >>>> When finding a SSB NAND flash it will try to initialize serial flash >>>> instead. Why are you using your own partition parser? Do Braodcom chips >>>> using NAND do something different from other chips? >>>> Is it possible to use drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c? >>>> >>>> Hauke >> _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
