In order to change boot loader variables in small soft_config partition SPI NOR need to support erasing 4k blocks.
Adding support for variable size erase blocks and enable it to all targets which has mikrotik devices. In some of mikrotik devices parent mtd device is read-only. It makes soft_config read-only, so changing it to writable. Variable size erase blocks could be used to replace MTD_SPI_NOR_USE_4K_SECTORS_LIMIT patch too. Oskari Lemmela (3): generic: platform/mikrotik: make soft_config writable without 4K sectors mikrotik: enable variable size erase mikrotik: make soft_config writable .../ar9344_mikrotik_routerboard-sxt-5n.dtsi | 1 - .../dts/qca9533_mikrotik_routerboard-16m.dtsi | 1 - ...6_mikrotik_routerboard-wap-g-5hact2hnd.dts | 1 - target/linux/ath79/mikrotik/config-default | 1 + target/linux/generic/config-5.10 | 1 + .../drivers/platform/mikrotik/rb_softconfig.c | 17 +- ...support-for-minor-aligned-partitions.patch | 397 ++++++++++++++++++ target/linux/ipq40xx/mikrotik/config-default | 1 + target/linux/ramips/dts/mt7621_mikrotik.dtsi | 1 - target/linux/ramips/mt7621/config-5.10 | 1 + 10 files changed, 404 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) create mode 100644 target/linux/generic/pending-5.10/402-mtd-spi-nor-write-support-for-minor-aligned-partitions.patch -- 2.25.1 _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel