[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] ath79: add support for tplink tl-wdr3600 modified with 16M flash

[Lech Perczak]

Hi,

W dniu 2019-03-15 o 10:18, Chuanhong Guo pisze:
> Hi!
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 2:42 PM Russell Senior
> <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>> To modify a WDR3600 with 16MB flash, you will need an external SPI programmer
>> and soldering tools.  First, obtain a copy of the starting contents either with
>> the external programmer or from commands in OpenWrt:
> Unfortunately OpenWrt never accepts device support requiring hardware
> modifications.
> I think part of the reason is that there are too many possible
> variants when it comes to hardware modifications and all those
> variants will make users confused.

Yeah, that's the rule.

In ar71xx such Device Tree mods weren't needed at all, flash size was 
autodetected at bootup.

Maybe you can think about implementing such generic autodetection 
mechanism for ath79 target instead, so there would be no need to support 
modded routers explicitly, so standard images could be used on modded 
routers too.
I think that quite many users could benefit from this.
> Some maintainers talked about this problem in a past thread but I
> can't find it now.
>
> Regards,
> Chuanhong Guo
>
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