Old devices used to have NVRAM at the very end of flash and they could
be unaligned (starting at some offset in a block).
In new devices NVRAM can be located quite randomly, however it seems to
always start at the beginning of a block. For example Netgear R6250 has
NVRAM located right after the bootloader, before the kernel partition.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Home routers based on SoCs like BCM53010 (AKA BCM4708) use flashes
which can be nicely partitioned with bcm47xxpart. Header bcm47xx_nvram.h
is not available on bcm53xx, so don't include it.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Our code parsing "trx" header registers few partitions at once (in one
loop iteration). Add extra check in that place.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Some devices (like WNDR3700v3) have board_data without MPFR magic, some
extra header or extra NVRAM around 0x100. In such case we have to look
for another magic which is BD 0B 0D BD (BD probably stands for Board
Data). It's located "far far away", so instead of extending buffer add
another mtd_read.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Some devices have even nicer-to-recognize CFE thanks to the magic.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
register_mtd_parser never fails; hence make it return void.
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
A new type of partition with magic FCTY was found on Huawei E970:
46 43 54 59 4b 51 37 4e 41 42 31 38 41 32 39 30 |FCTYKQ7NAB18A290|
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Most of the bcm47xx devices use TRX format for storing kernel and some
partition like Squashfs or JFFS2. This is pretty flexible solution, CFE
(the bootloader) just writes (and later boots) TRX at some hardcoded
place and paritions can vary in the size.
However some devices don't use TRX format. Very recently we have
discovered ZTE H218N that has kernel and rootfs partitions at some
"random" places.
This patch allows Linux find a rootfs partition after installing custom
image with a CFE bootloader.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
NVRAM is always placed at the end of device and it does not have to
start at the beginning of a block, so check few possible offsets.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
This reverts commit be3781b71a.
Some CFE bootloaders have NVRAM at offset 0x1000. With that patch we
were detecting such a bootloaders as a standard NVRAM partition.
Changing anything in this pseudo-NVRAM resulted in corrupted bootloader
and bricked device!
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* misc clean-ups in the MTD command-line partitioning parser (cmdlinepart)
* add flash locking support for STmicro chips serial flash chips, as well as
for CFI command set 2 chips.
* new driver for the ELM error correction HW module found in various TI chips,
enable the OMAP NAND driver to use the ELM HW error correction
* added number of new serial flash IDs
* various fixes and improvements in the gpmi NAND driver
* bcm47xx NAND driver improvements
* make the mtdpart module actually removable
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Merge tag 'for-linus-20130301' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd
Pull MTD update from David Woodhouse:
"Fairly unexciting MTD merge for 3.9:
- misc clean-ups in the MTD command-line partitioning parser
(cmdlinepart)
- add flash locking support for STmicro chips serial flash chips, as
well as for CFI command set 2 chips.
- new driver for the ELM error correction HW module found in various
TI chips, enable the OMAP NAND driver to use the ELM HW error
correction
- added number of new serial flash IDs
- various fixes and improvements in the gpmi NAND driver
- bcm47xx NAND driver improvements
- make the mtdpart module actually removable"
* tag 'for-linus-20130301' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (45 commits)
mtd: map: BUG() in non handled cases
mtd: bcm47xxnflash: use pr_fmt for module prefix in messages
mtd: davinci_nand: Use managed resources
mtd: mtd_torturetest can cause stack overflows
mtd: physmap_of: Convert device allocation to managed devm_kzalloc()
mtd: at91: atmel_nand: for PMECC, add code to check the ONFI parameter ECC requirement.
mtd: atmel_nand: make pmecc-cap, pmecc-sector-size in dts is optional.
mtd: atmel_nand: avoid to report an error when lookup table offset is 0.
mtd: bcm47xxsflash: adjust names of bus-specific functions
mtd: bcm47xxpart: improve probing of nvram partition
mtd: bcm47xxpart: add support for other erase sizes
mtd: bcm47xxnflash: register this as normal driver
mtd: bcm47xxnflash: fix message
mtd: bcm47xxsflash: register this as normal driver
mtd: bcm47xxsflash: write number of written bytes
mtd: gpmi: add sanity check for the ECC
mtd: gpmi: set the Golois Field bit for mx6q's BCH
mtd: devices: elm: Removes <xx> literals in elm DT node
mtd: gpmi: fix a dereferencing freed memory error
mtd: fix the wrong timeo for panic_nand_wait()
...
The nvram functions are exported and used by some normal drivers. To
prevent name clashes with ofter parts of the kernel code add a bcm47xx_
prefix in front of the function names and the header file name.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4744/
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
The nvram in the nvram partition does not start at the beginning of the
partition on every device. Sometimes they are stating in the middle of
a partition or the first 0x1000 bytes are free.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
To make the partitions writable they should aligned to erase sizes of
the flash. If the erase size is small use 0x10000.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
It's required for accessing trx header (usually re-calculating a
checksum) and for writing a new firmware.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
This driver provides parser detecting partitions on BCM47XX flash
memories. It has many differences in comparison to BCM63XX, like:
1) Different CFE with no more trivial MAGICs
2) More partitions types (board_data, ML, POT)
3) Supporting more than 1 flash on a device
which resulted in decision of writing new parser.
It uses generic mtd interface and was successfully tested with Netgear
WNDR4500 router which has 2 flash memories: serial one and NAND one.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
