Reading and writing to and from flash storage is slow and currently, especially since some scripts use a block size of 1 to be able skip.
This patch reworks the extraction scripts to be much faster and efficient by reading and writing in possibly one big block. This is based on the initial commit a69e101 for ipq40xx by Christian Lamparter <chunk...@gmail.com>. Speed comparison @ UBNT AC-Mesh (just manually) results in a time reduction of 99.9 %. > time dd if=/dev/mtd6 of=/lib/firmware/test-slow bs=1 count=4096 skip=4096 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out real 0m 16.84s user 0m 0.07s sys 0m 13.54s > time dd if=/dev/mtd6 of=/lib/firmware/test-fast bs=4096 count=1 skip=4096 > iflag=skip_bytes 1+0 records in 1+0 records out real 0m 0.02s user 0m 0.00s sys 0m 0.02s Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freif...@adrianschmutzler.de> --- .../linux/ath79/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/10-ath9k-eeprom | 4 ++-- .../linux/ath79/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/11-ath10k-caldata | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/target/linux/ath79/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/10-ath9k-eeprom b/target/linux/ath79/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/10-ath9k-eeprom index 8b217d12c0..4bb2c28bac 100644 --- a/target/linux/ath79/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/10-ath9k-eeprom +++ b/target/linux/ath79/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/10-ath9k-eeprom @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ ath9k_eeprom_extract() { [ -n "$mtd" ] || \ ath9k_eeprom_die "no mtd device found for partition $part" - dd if=$mtd of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE bs=1 skip=$offset count=$count 2>/dev/null || \ + dd if=$mtd of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE bs=$count skip=$offset count=1 iflag=skip_bytes 2>/dev/null || \ ath9k_eeprom_die "failed to extract from $mtd" } @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ ath9k_patch_fw_mac() { dd of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=$chksum_offset count=2 } - macaddr_2bin $mac | dd of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=$mac_offset count=6 + macaddr_2bin $mac | dd of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE conv=notrunc bs=6 seek=$mac_offset count=1 oflag=seek_bytes } ath9k_patch_fw_mac_crc() { diff --git a/target/linux/ath79/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/11-ath10k-caldata b/target/linux/ath79/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/11-ath10k-caldata index f4741fa3eb..e0d28dfabe 100644 --- a/target/linux/ath79/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/11-ath10k-caldata +++ b/target/linux/ath79/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/11-ath10k-caldata @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ ath10kcal_from_file() { local offset=$2 local count=$3 - dd if=$source of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE bs=1 skip=$offset count=$count 2>/dev/null || \ + dd if=$source of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE bs=$count skip=$offset count=1 iflag=skip_bytes 2>/dev/null || \ ath10kcal_die "failed to extract calibration data from $source" } @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ ath10kcal_extract() { [ -n "$mtd" ] || \ ath10kcal_die "no mtd device found for partition $part" - dd if=$mtd of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE bs=1 skip=$offset count=$count 2>/dev/null || \ + dd if=$mtd of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE bs=$count skip=$offset count=1 iflag=skip_bytes 2>/dev/null || \ ath10kcal_die "failed to extract calibration data from $mtd" } @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ ath10kcal_patch_mac() { [ -z "$mac" ] && return - macaddr_2bin $mac | dd of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=6 count=6 + macaddr_2bin $mac | dd of=/lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE conv=notrunc bs=6 seek=6 count=1 oflag=seek_bytes } ath10kcal_patch_mac_crc() { -- 2.11.0 _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel