[PATCH] bcm53xx: disable NVMEM driver

[Arınç ÜNAL]

On 1.08.2023 15:16, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 2023-08-01 12:42, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
>> The NVMEM_BRCM_NVRAM driver won't work properly with NVRAM in NAND. It
>> causes the devices with NVRAM in NAND, such as ASUS RT-AC88U, to 
>> bootloop.
>> Until the driver is fixed, disable it.
> 
> Driver works and it useful for non-NAND devices. By disabling it you
> regress those devices. Surely this can be handled better.

How about making a subtarget for NAND devices? The kernel config will be 
separate so we can disable NVMEM for that subtarget.

You mentioned contacting Broadcom regarding this issue around 6 months 
ago. Any news on that?

> 
> 
>> Disable NVMEM too as the bgmac_bcma driver will hang trying to 
>> retrieve the
>> MAC address without NVMEM_BRCM_NVRAM enabled.
> 
> This would be nice to fix instead hiding the bug.

I've got no interest to learn the NVMEM subsystem to take a crack at 
fixing it at the moment. For now, the best I can do is send a separate 
mail to openwrt-devel as a mean to report this bug.

Arınç