Flash memory Upgrade ...what could go wrong

[finos]

@hnyman

It would mean adjusting the location and size of each affected partition in the DTS. Your device has no own DTS, right? But is hijacking the td-w8980 DTS, right?

Then it is likely about these lines, which you need to adjust according to how you copied the contents. Curiously, the DTS is different than the mtd contents shown in the wiki article, so you may need to first look with a hex editor or so, what data and how much data is actually at the end of the chip...

i guess.

so the upgrade prosses would be as follows:

1. teardown router , de-solder the eeprom , dump its contents.
2. Make a new larger .hex file copy the contents of the dump acordingly (system partition , aka config, romfile, rom, radio as per what wiki says)
3. clone the openwrt repo similar to what this post shows
4. Go on the dts file and edit the start/end addresses
5. compile , bake it on the new eeprom
6. enjoy your new upgraded router

riiight?