Specifically this applies to units manufactured in December of 2015 or later; serial numbers starting with 215C.
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 7:55 AM, John Marrett <jo...@zioncluster.ca> wrote: > Recent Archer C7 V2.0 units have changed flash chips to the gd25q128 > chip, this is supported in trunk but not presently in 15.05. I would > like stable support for this version so I've back ported the required > fix [1] from the upstream kernel. I've tried to place this patch in > order with the other flash support patches. I've tested it and I'm > able to install a build of 15.05.1 on the device with this patch. > Wireless and other functionality appears to be working properly. > > This is my first submitted patch for OpenWrt, please let me know on > list or off if there are any issues. > > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c?id=fcc87a95195236b0935183361a72e4a98bf577d8 > > Signed-off-by: John Marrett <jo...@zioncluster.ca> > > diff --git a/target/linux/ar71xx/patches-3.18/414-mtd-gd25q128-support.patch > b/target/linux/ar71xx/ > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..c4a0a94 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/target/linux/ar71xx/patches-3.18/414-mtd-gd25q128-support.patch > @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ > +Index: linux-3.18.29/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c > +=================================================================== > +--- linux-3.18.29.orig/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c 2016-04-15 > 20:02:47.709062050 -0400 > ++++ linux-3.18.29/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c 2016-04-16 > 07:41:06.071314788 -0400 > +@@ -510,6 +510,7 @@ > + /* GigaDevice */ > + { "gd25q32", INFO(0xc84016, 0, 64 * 1024, 64, SECT_4K) }, > + { "gd25q64", INFO(0xc84017, 0, 64 * 1024, 128, SECT_4K) }, > ++ { "gd25q128", INFO(0xc84018, 0, 64 * 1024, 256, SECT_4K) }, > + > + /* Intel/Numonyx -- xxxs33b */ > + { "160s33b", INFO(0x898911, 0, 64 * 1024, 32, 0) }, > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel -- Kristian Kielhofner _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel