[PATCH] ramips: mt76x8: enable small_flash feature
Sander Vanheule
sander at svanheule.net
Mon Jan 22 03:35:47 PST 2024
On Wed, 2024-01-10 at 16:59 +0100, Tomasz Maciej Nowak wrote:
> From: Tomasz Maciej Nowak <tmn505 at gmail.com>
>
> Some of devices in this target have only 8 MiB space and are closing to
> borders of usable space. Particularly, TP-Link RE305 v1 already suffers
> from this issue[1], where with current partition layout, on release
> images, there's not enough space for overlay. So activate small_flash
> feature, which will remove some userspace hardening but will gain almost
> 1 MiB additional flash memory space. Here is small size comparison of
> similar device (RE365 v1) with default config + LuCI:
>
> kernel rootfs sysupgrade
> current: 2305728 3635044 5964584
> small_flash: 1713571 3320132 5047080
>
> 1. https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/14215
>
> Suggested-by: Sander Vanheule <sander at svanheule.net>
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Maciej Nowak <tmn505 at gmail.com>
> ---
Took a bit longer than promised, but now applied to main. Thanks!
Best,
Sander
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