OpenWRT has own support for the memory-mapped fast SPI flash read on ath79.
With mainline kernel 4.6/4.7 more elegant generic support for this feature
was added upstream consisting of these two commits:
556351f14e74 "spi: introduce accelerated read support for spi flash devices"
08922f644878 "mtd:
Am 23.04.2016 um 00:49 schrieb Heiner Kallweit:
> OpenWRT has own support for the memory-mapped fast SPI flash read on ath79.
> With mainline kernel 4.6/4.7 more elegant generic support for this feature
> was added upstream consisting of these two commits:
>
> 556351f14e74 "spi: introduce accelera
Mathias Kresin kresin.me> writes:
> Use the kernel with the appended dtb as base, otherwise the kernel will
> panic with "no dtb found".
>
indeed. confirmed to work now.
(and i'll freely admit that i failed to figure out how that appended image
ends up in the symbols __dtb_start/__dtb_end (the
