From: Felix Baumann <felix.bau@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2022 20:40:43 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: ramips: add support for read/write uboot env to Asus RX-AX53U
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ramips: add support for read/write uboot env to Asus RX-AX53U

Add support for read/writing uboot env by renaming the second partition
to its stock label "nvram" and remove the deemed unnecessary
"read-only". Split the first partition "u-boot" in two, in order
to allow `fw_setenv` safe write-access to the uboot environment
variables.

This implements hauke's request from [1].
Based on the patch provided by Shiji Yang.

[1] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/10400#discussion_r945153224

Co-Authored-By: Shiji Yang <yangshiji66@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Baumann <felix.bau@gmx.de>
[ improve commit title and description, fix some whitespace problem ]
Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/target/linux/ramips/dts/mt7621_asus_rt-ax53u.dts b/target/linux/ramips/dts/mt7621_asus_rt-ax53u.dts
index aec8a0494d..6a5cb0d719 100644
--- a/target/linux/ramips/dts/mt7621_asus_rt-ax53u.dts
+++ b/target/linux/ramips/dts/mt7621_asus_rt-ax53u.dts
@@ -60,12 +60,21 @@
 
 		partition@0 {
 			label = "u-boot";
-			reg = <0x0 0xe0000>;
+			reg = <0x0 0x80000>;
 			read-only;
 		};
 
-		partition@e0000 {
+		/*
+		 * u-boot gets split here while keeping u-boot read-only,
+		 * which allows safe usage of fw_setenv
+		 */
+		partition@80000 {
 			label = "u-boot-env";
+			reg = <0x80000 0x60000>;
+		};
+
+		partition@e0000 {
+			label = "nvram";
 			reg = <0xe0000 0x100000>;
 			read-only;
 		};