immortalwrt/target
Adrian Schmutzler 865d430f4b ath79/mikrotik: disable building NAND images
The current support for MikroTik NAND-based devices relies on a
gross hack that packs the kernel into a static YAFFS stub, as the
stock bootloader only supports booting a YAFFS-encapsulated kernel.

The problem with this approach is that since the kernel partition is
blindly overwritten without any kind of wear or badblock management
(due to lack of proper support for YAFFS in OpenWRT), the NAND flash
is not worn uniformly and eventually badblocks appear, leading to
unbootable devices.

Until a proper fix is found (or the stock bootloader supports other
filesystems), we disable building these images to prevent unknowing
users from risking their devices.

Thanks to Thibaut Varène for summarizing the details above.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
2020-12-28 11:21:12 +08:00
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imagebuilder imagebuilder: fix partition signature 2020-11-28 18:26:21 +08:00
linux ath79/mikrotik: disable building NAND images 2020-12-28 11:21:12 +08:00
sdk Merge Mainline 2020-11-08 00:19:27 +08:00
toolchain toolchain/wrapper.sh: fix remaining shellcheck warnings 2020-07-12 12:12:56 +08:00
Config.in Merge Mainline 2020-09-28 13:14:47 +08:00
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