[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] lantiq: remove read-only flag on two partitions on BTHOMEHUBV3A

[Ben Mulvihill]

On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 16:29 +0200, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:00 PM, John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> wrote:
> > is this not a bit risky ? normally we try to keep them read-only so that
> > users cannot accidentally kill them. is the calib data normally not
> > located in the art partition or why do you need to copy it after flashing ?

@John: As supplied from the manufacturer, the caldata is in a file
in a jffs partition, which we overwrite anyway during installation.
The art partition is specifically for openwrt. Up till now we have
been copying the calibration data into it manually from the uboot 
command line. The trouble is that the only way to access the uboot
command line involves some very fiddly soldering on minuscule pads.
I am working on a way to install openwrt without a serial console,
but to do it the user will need to be able to write to the art
partition from openwrt.

> I think the caldata partition is made writable because of some bug in
> ath9k which required HH3A users to manually modify the ath9k caldata.
> This is not necessary anymore since my patch (+ Felix' fix on top of
> it) is now upstream: [0]

@Martin. No, as you say, thanks to you and Felix, manual modification
of the calibration data is no longer necessary. Brilliant! See above
for explanation of why I am suggesting this change.

> 
> @Ben: one probably has to enable caldata swapping in the .dts.

I saw your comment on openwrt.ebilan.co.uk that the "ath,eep-swap;"
flag should be added to the dts in order to use unmodified calibration 
data, but actually this does not appear to be the case. I have just
installed a board using unmodified calibration data and unmodified dts
(apart from read-only flag) and it works fine. I then tried adding 
"ath,eep-swap;" just to see what would happen and it no longer worked.

I haven't investigated why "ath,eep-swap;" is no longer needed. Maybe
the result of Felix's latest changes? In any case so much the better!

> Then we have to figure out what to do with existing HH3A installations.
> 

We'll have to do that anyway.

> Martin
> 
> [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6fa658fd5ab26a769ca7df7bfdd53c212a0ba852

Thanks,

Ben
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