Re: ath79: Fix for Mikrotik NAND bad blocks - testers needed

2021-04-08 Thread Sergey Ryazanov
Hello Danijel, On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 3:21 PM Sergey Ryazanov wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:54 PM Danijel wrote: >> So now I'm looking for testers (and reviewers) who could test this change on >> the affected devices (with bad blocks) and NOR Mikrotiks. > > I have a couple of RB433 boards

Re: ath79: Fix for Mikrotik NAND bad blocks - testers needed

2021-03-23 Thread Sergey Ryazanov
Hello Danijel! On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:54 PM Danijel wrote: > I'm working on restoring Mikrotik RB2011 support after ar71xx target was > dropped after 19.07 release. While working on it, the problem with bad blocks > and the issue of the current way of flashing kernel was also brought up. > >

Re: ath79: Fix for Mikrotik NAND bad blocks - testers needed

2021-03-23 Thread Danijel
> I have a few RB493G boards that will not boot OpenWrt due to the bad > blocks problem. Might your work work with them? Yes, if you first return to RouterOS (to create a proper kernel partition), you can build a new image with my changes, boot initramfs and try flashing the sysupgrade to NAND. The

Re: ath79: Fix for Mikrotik NAND bad blocks - testers needed

2021-03-22 Thread W. Michael Petullo
> So now I'm looking for testers (and reviewers) who could test this change on > the affected devices (with bad blocks) and NOR Mikrotiks. Also, a word from > OpenWrt maintainers if this is the acceptable approach - there is not much > choice, alternatives would be include porting U-Boot, a task wi

ath79: Fix for Mikrotik NAND bad blocks - testers needed

2021-03-22 Thread Danijel
Hi, I'm working on restoring Mikrotik RB2011 support after ar71xx target was dropped after 19.07 release. While working on it, the problem with bad blocks and the issue of the current way of flashing kernel was also brought up. Right now, for Mikrotiks we use kernel2minor which generates a 4MiB YA