Add support for TP-Link Deco S4 wifi router
The label refers to the device as S4R and the TP-Link firmware
site calls it the Deco S4 v2. (There does not appear to be a v1)
Hardware (and FCC id) are identical to the Deco M4R v2 but the
flash layout is ordered differently and the OEM firmware encrypts
some config parameters (including the label mac address) in flash
In order to set the encrypted mac address, the wlan's caldata
node is removed from the DTS so the mac can be decrypted with
the help of the uencrypt tool and patched into the wlan fw
via hotplug
Specifications:
SoC: QCA9563-AL3A
RAM: Zentel A3R1GE40JBF
Wireless 2.4GHz: QCA9563-AL3A (main SoC)
Wireless 5GHz: QCA9886
Ethernet Switch: QCA8337N-AL3C
Flash: 16 MB SPI NOR
UART serial access (115200N1) on board via solder pads:
RX = TP1 pad
TX = TP2 pad
GND = C201 (pad nearest board edge)
The device's bootloader and web gui will only accept images that
were signed using TP-Link's RSA key, however a memory safety bug
in the bootloader can be leveraged to install openwrt without
accessing the serial console. See developer forum S4 support page
for link to a "firmware" file that starts a tftp client, or you
may generate one on your own like this:
```
python - > deco_s4_faux_fw_tftp.bin <<EOF
import sys
from struct import pack
b = pack('>I', 0x00008000) + b'X'*16 + b"fw-type:" \
+ b'x'*256 + b"S000S001S002" + pack('>I', 0x80060200) \
b += b"\x00"*(0x200-len(b)) \
+ pack(">33I", *[0x3c0887fc, 0x35083ddc, 0xad000000, 0x24050000,
0x3c048006, 0x348402a0, 0x3c1987f9, 0x373947f4,
0x0320f809, 0x00000000, 0x24050000, 0x3c048006,
0x348402d0, 0x3c1987f9, 0x373947f4, 0x0320f809,
0x00000000, 0x24050000, 0x3c048006, 0x34840300,
0x3c1987f9, 0x373947f4, 0x0320f809, 0x00000000,
0x24050000, 0x3c048006, 0x34840400, 0x3c1987f9,
0x373947f4, 0x0320f809, 0x00000000, 0x1000fff1,
0x00000000])
b += b"\xff"*(0x2A0-len(b)) + b"setenv serverip 192.168.0.2\x00"
b += b"\xff"*(0x2D0-len(b)) + b"setenv ipaddr 192.168.0.1\x00"
b += b"\xff"*(0x300-len(b)) + b"tftpboot 0x81000000 initramfs-kernel.bin\x00"
b += b"\xff"*(0x400-len(b)) + b"bootm 0x81000000\x00"
b += b"\xff"*(0x8000-len(b))
sys.stdout.buffer.write(b)
EOF
```
Installation:
1. Run tftp server on pc with static ip 192.168.0.2
2. Place openwrt "initramfs-kernel.bin" image in tftp root dir
3. Connect pc to router ethernet port1
4. While holding in reset button on bottom of router, power on router
5. From pc access router webgui at http://192.168.0.1
6. Upload deco_s4_faux_fw_tftp.bin
7. Router will load and execture in-memory openwrt
8. Switch pc back to dhcp or static 192.168.1.x
9. Flash openwrt sysupgrade image via luci/ssh at 192.168.1.1
Revert to stock:
Press and hold reset button while powering device to start the
bootloader's recovery mode, where stock firmware can be uploaded
via web gui at 192.168.0.1
Please note that one additional non-github commits is also needed:
firmware-utils: add tplink-safeloader support for Deco S4
Signed-off-by: Nick French <nickfrench@gmail.com>
Some platforms lack an established way to name netdevs; for example,
on x86, PCIe-based ethernet interfaces will be named starting from
eth0 in the order they are probed. This is a problem for many devices
supported explicitly by OpenWrt which have hard-wired, standalone or
on-CPU NICs not supported by DSA (which is usually used to rename the
ports based on their ostensible function).
To fix this, add a mapping between ethernet device name and sysfs
device path to board.json; this allows us to configure ethernet device
names we know about for a given board so that they correspond to
external labeling.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kennedy <hurricos@gmail.com>
It allows prepopulating /etc/config/network interface-s with predefined
metric. It may be useful for devices with multiple WAN ports.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Some Arcadyan devices (e.g. MTS WG430223) keep their config in encrypted
mtd. This adds mtd_get_mac_encrypted_arcadyan() function to get the MAC
address from the encrypted partition. Function uses uencrypt utility for
decryption (and openssl if the uencrypt wasn't found).
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zhilkin <csharper2005@gmail.com>
The heartbeat trigger has the option to be inverted, however
openwrt/uci/luci have no way to set this.
This patch adds this support.
Signed-off-by: Olliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl>
On x86, when both CONFIG_GRUB_CONSOLE and CONFIG_GRUB_SERIAL are set (as
they are by default), the kernel command line will have two console=
entries, such as
console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8
Failsafe was only running a shell on the first defined console, the VGA
console. This is a problem for devices like apu2, where there is only a
serial console and it appears on ttyS0.
Moreover, the console prompt to enter failsafe during boot was delivered
to, and its input read from, the last console= on the kernel command
line. So while the failsafe shell was on the first defined console, only
the last defined console could be used to enter failsafe during boot.
In contrast, the x86 bootloader (GRUB) operates on both the serial
console and the VGA console by virtue of "terminal_{input,output}
console serial". GRUB also provided an alternate means to enter failsafe
from either console. The presence of two console= kernel command line
parameters causes kernel messages to be delivered to both. Under normal
operation (not failsafe), procd runs login in accordance with inittab,
which on x86 specifies ttyS0, hvc0, and tty1, allowing login through any
of serial, hypervisor, or VGA console. Thus, serial access was
consistently available on x86 devices with serial consoles under normal
operation, except for shell access in failsafe mode (without editing the
kernel command line).
By presenting the failsafe prompt, reading failsafe prompt input, and
running failsafe shells on all consoles listed in /proc/cmdline,
failsafe mode will work correctly on devices with a serial console (like
apu2), and the same image without any need for reconfiguration can be
shared by devices with the more traditional (for x86) VGA console. This
improvement should benefit any system with multiple console= arguments,
including x86 and bcm27xx (Raspberry Pi).
Signed-off-by: Mark Mentovai <mark at moxienet.com>
Downstream projects might re-generate device-specific configuration
based on OpenWrt's defaults on each upgrade, thus being unaffected by
forward- as well as backwards-breaking configuration.
Add a new sysupgrade parameter, which allows sysupgrades between minor
compat-versions. Upgrades will still fail upon mismatching major compat
versions.
Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
Remove forgotten redundant selinuxenabled call and skip the whole
thing in case $IPKG_INSTROOT is set as labels are anyway applied only
later on in fakeroot when squashfs is created.
Fixes: 6d7272852e ("base-files: add missing $IPKG_INSTROOT to restorecon call")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Update to overlooked v2 version of Dominick Grift's patch.
Fixes: 5109bd164c ("base-files: address sed in-place without SELinux awareness")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
sed(1) in busybox does not support this functionality:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/tree/sed/execute.c#n598
This causes /etc/group to become mislabeled when a package requests
that a uid/gid be added on OpenWrt with SELinux
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
[move restorecon inside lock]
Signed-off-by: Dominick Grift <dominick.grift@defensec.nl>
Commit ecbcc0b595 bricks devices on which the raw kernel and UBI mtd
partitions overlap.
This is the case of the ZyXEL NR7101 for example. Its OEM bootloader has
no UBI support. OpenWrt splits the stock kernel mtd partition into a raw
kernel part used by the bootloader and a UBI part used to store rootfs
and rootfs_data. Running mtd erase on the complete partition during
sysupgrade erases the UBI part and results in a soft brick.
Arguably the best solution would be to fix the partition layouts so that
kernel and UBI partitions do not overlap, also including a stock_kernel
partition to help reverting to stock firmware. This would have the added
benefit of protecting UBI from kernel images that are excessively large.
Fixes: ecbcc0b595 ("base-files: safer sysupgrade.tar for kernel-out-of-UBI")
Reported-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Balerdi <lanchon@gmail.com>
Attempt to minimize the time during which an interrupted nand sysupgrade
can lead to a non-functional device by flushing caches before starting
the upgrade procedure.
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Balerdi <lanchon@gmail.com>
Fix issues while retaining configuration during nand sysupgrade:
- abort configuration saving if data partition is not found
- generate diagnostics if saving fails (eg, because of lack of space)
- do not output "sysupgrade successful" in case of errors
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Balerdi <lanchon@gmail.com>
Remove redundant check from nand ubinized sysupgrade code. This check
has already been done in the only caller of the affected function:
nand_do_upgrade.
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Balerdi <lanchon@gmail.com>
Prepares code for ubirename-based safe sysupgrade implementation.
Fixes several issues:
- the special CI_KERNPART value "none" is ignored if an MTD partition
named "none" exists
- misleading variable names (such as has_kernel to mean "tar has kernel
and it should not be written to an MTD partition but a UBI volume")
- inconsistent treatment of zero-length tar member files
- inconsistent meaning of "0" and "" variable values
- redundant operations (unneeded untaring, repeated untaring, unneeded
partition lookups)
- inconsistent variable quoting
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Balerdi <lanchon@gmail.com>
Ensure that the kernel CRC is invalidated while rootfs is being updated.
This allows the bootloader to detect an interrupted sysupgrade and fall
back to an alternate booting method, such as TFTP, instead of just going
ahead with normal boot and effectively bricking the device.
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Balerdi <lanchon@gmail.com>
Ensure that the kernel CRC is invalidated while rootfs is being updated.
This allows the bootloader to detect an interrupted sysupgrade and fall
back to an alternate booting method, instead of just going ahead with
normal boot and effectively bricking the device.
Possible fallbacks include a recovery initramfs partition or UBI volume
and TFTP. See here for an example U-Boot configuration with fallbacks:
https://shorturl.at/befsA (https://github.com/Lanchon/openwrt-tr4400-v2/
blob/e7d707d6bd7839fbd0b8d0bd180fce451df77e47/install-recovery.sh#L52-L63)
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Balerdi <lanchon@gmail.com>
Emit diagnostics if nand sysupgrade is aborted because UBI partition
cannot be attached. Also avoid redudndant checks.
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Balerdi <lanchon@gmail.com>
Make sure sysupgrade on NAND also works in case of UBI volumes having
index >9. While at it, also make sure UBI device is detected and abort
in case it isn't. Use Shell built-in shorthand ':' instead of 'true'.
Fixes#9708
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
See firmware-utils.git commits [1], which implemented the cros-vbutil
verified-boot payload-packing tool, and extended ptgen for the CrOS
kernel partition type. With these, it's now possible to package kernel +
rootfs to make disk images that can boot a Chrome OS-based system (e.g.,
Chromebooks, or even a few AP models).
Regarding PARTUUID= changes: Chromium bootloaders work well with a
partition number offset (i.e., relative to the kernel partition), so
we'll be using a slightly different root UUID line.
NB: I've made this support specific to ip40xx for now, because I only
plan to support an IPQ4019-based AP that uses a Chromium-based
bootloader, but this image format can be used for essentially any
Chromebook, as well as the Google OnHub, a prior Chromium-based AP using
an IPQ8064 chipset.
[1]
ptgen: add Chromium OS kernel partition support
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=project/firmware-utils.git;a=commit;h=6c95945b5de973026dc6f52eb088d0943efa96bb
cros-vbutil: add Chrome OS vboot kernel-signing utility
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=project/firmware-utils.git;a=commit;h=8e7274e02fdc6f2cb61b415d6e5b2e1c7e977aa1
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
A service managed by procd does have a json object with usefull information.
This information could by dumped with the following command.
ubus call service list "{ 'verbose':true, 'name': '<service-name>)'". }"
This line is long and complicated to enter. This commit adds a wrapper
call to the procd service section tool to simplify the input and get the
output faster.
We could now enter the command /etc/initd/<service> info to get the info
faster.
Signed-off-by: Florian Eckert <fe@dev.tdt.de>
The service command belongs to the procd and does not belong in the
shinit. In the course of the move, the script was also checked with
shellcheck and cleaned up.
Signed-off-by: Florian Eckert <fe@dev.tdt.de>
Rootfs overlays get created at a ROOTDEV_OVERLAY_ALIGN (64KiB)
alignment after the rootfs, but emmc_do_upgrade() is assuming
it comes at the very next 512-byte sector.
Suggested-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
(move spaces around, mention fstools' libtoolfs)
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
OpenWrt uses a lot of (b)ash scripts for initial setup. This isn't the
best solution as they almost never consider syncing files / data. Still
this is what we have and we need to try living with it.
Without proper syncing OpenWrt can easily get into an inconsistent state
on power cut. It's because:
1. Actual (flash) inode and data writes are not synchronized
2. Data writeback can take up to 30 seconds (dirty_expire_centisecs)
3. ubifs adds extra 5 seconds (dirty_writeback_centisecs) "delay"
Some possible cases (examples) for new files:
1. Power cut during 5 seconds after write() can result in all data loss
2. Power cut happening between 5 and 35 seconds after write() can result
in empty file (inode flushed after 5 seconds, data flush queued)
Above affects e.g. uci-defaults. After executing some migration script
it may get deleted (whited out) without generated data getting actually
written. Power cut will result in missing data and deleted file.
There are three ways of dealing with that:
1. Rewriting all user-space init to proper C with syncs
2. Trying bash hacks (like creating tmp files & moving them)
3. Adding sync and hoping for no power cut during critical section
This change introduces the last solution that is the simplest. It
reduces time during which things may go wrong from ~35 seconds to
probably less than a second. Of course it applies only to IO operations
performed before /etc/init.d/boot . It's probably the stage when the
most new files get created.
All later changes are usually done using smarter C apps (e.g. busybox or
uci) that creates tmp files and uses rename() that is expected to be
atomic.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Acked-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
In the default shadow file, as visible in the failsafe mode, the user
root has value of `0` set in the 3rd field, the date of last password
change. This setting means that the password needs to be changed the
next time the user will log in the system. `dropbear` server is ignoring
this setting but `openssh-server` tries to enforce it and fails in the
failsafe mode because the rootfs is R/O.
Disable the password aging feature for user root by setting the 3rd
filed empty.
Signed-off-by: Rucke Teg <rucketeg@protonmail.com>
Not all targets create /var/lock or touch /var/lock/fw_printenv.lock in
their platform.sh. This is problematic as fw_printenv then fails in
case /var/lock/fw_printenv.lock has not been created by previous calls
to fw_printenv/fw_setenv before sysupgrade is run.
Targets using fw_printenv/fw_setenv during sysupgrade:
* ath79/*
* ipq40xx/*
* ipq806x/*
* kirkwood/*
* layerscape/*
* mediatek/mt7622
* mvebu/*
* ramips/*
* realtek/*
Targets currently using additional steps in /lib/upgrade/platform.sh
to make sure /var/lock/fw_printenv.lock (or at least /var/lock)
actually exists:
* ath79/* (openmesh devices)
* ipq40xx/* (linksys devices)
* ipq806x/* (linksys devices)
* kirkwood/* (linksys devices)
* layerscape/*
* mvebu/cortexa9 (linksys devices)
Given that accessing the U-Boot environment during sysupgrade is not
uncommon and the situation across targets is currently quite diverse,
just make sure both tools as well fw_env.config are always copied to
the ramdisk used for sysupgrade. Also make sure /var/lock always
exists.
This now allows to remove copying of fw_printenv/fw_setenv as well as
fw_env.config, creation of /var/lock or even /var/lock/fw_printenv.lock
from lib/upgrade/platform.sh or files included there.
As the same applies also to 'fwtool' which is used by generic eMMC
sysupgrade, also always copy that to ramdisk.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
This patch adds support for creation heartbeat led trigger with,
for example, this command:
ucidef_set_led_heartbeat "..." "..." "..."
from /etc/board.d/01_leds.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Smirnov <s.alexey@gmail.com>
For sysupgrade on NAND/UBI devices there is the U-Boot environment
variable rootfs_data_max which can be used to limit the size of the
rootfs_data volume created on sysupgrade.
This stopped working reliable with recent kernels, probably due to a
race condition when reading the number of free erase blocks from sysfs
just after removing a volume.
Change the script to just try creating rootfs_data with the desired
size and retry with maximum size in case that fails. Hence calculating
the available size in the script can be dropped which works around the
problem.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
fgrep is deprecated and replaced by grep -F. The latter is used
throughout the tree whereas this is the only usage of the former.
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
We were missing (not using) the last sector of each partition,
compared with the output of gparted.
Signed-off-by: Javier Marcet <javier@marcet.info>
[moved the dot]
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
The following command checks if a instance of a service is running.
/etc/init.d/<service> running <instance>
In the variable `$@`, which is passed to the function
`service_running`, the first argument is always the `instance` which
should be checked. Because all other variables where removed from `$@`
with `shift`.
Before this change the first argument of `$@` was set to the `$service`
Variable. So the function does not work as expected. The `$service`
variable was always the instance which should be checked. This is not
what we want.
Signed-off-by: Florian Eckert <fe@dev.tdt.de>
Reviewed-by: Sungbo Eo <mans0n@gorani.run>
Adds generic support for sysupgrading on eMMC-based devices.
Provide function emmc_do_upgrade and emmc_copy_config to be used in
/lib/upgrade/platform.sh instead of redundantly implementing the same
logic over and over again.
Similar to generic sysupgrade on NAND, use environment variables
CI_KERNPART, CI_ROOTPART and newly introduce CI_DATAPART to indicate
GPT partition names to be used. On devices with more than one MMC
block device, CI_ROOTDEV can be used to specify the MMC device for
partition name lookups.
Also allow to select block devices directly using EMMC_KERN_DEV,
EMMC_ROOT_DEV and EMMC_DATA_DEV, as using GPT partition names is not
always an option (e.g. when forced to use MBR).
To easily handle writing kernel and rootfs make use of sysupgrade.tar
format convention which is also already used for generic NAND support.
Signed-off-by: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
CC: Li Zhang <li.zhang@gl-inet.com>
CC: TruongSinh Tran-Nguyen <i@truongsinh.pro>
Currently nand_upgrade_tar() will pass the kernel length
to nand_upgrade_prepare_ubi() in all cases except for when
the kernel is to be installed in a separate partition as a
binary with the MTD tool.
While this is fine for almost all cases newer MikroTik NAND
devices like hAP ac3 require the kernel to be installed as a
UBIFS packed UBI volume in its own partition.
So, since we have a custom recipe to use ubiformat to flash
the kernel in its partition it makes no sense for sysupgrade
to also install the kernel as a UBI volume in the "ubi"
partition as it only wastes space and will never be used.
So, simply check whether CI_KERNPART is set to "none" and
if so unset the "has_kernel" variable which will in turn
prevent the kernel length from being passed on and then
the kernel UBI volume wont be created for no usefull purpose.
The ath79 MikroTik NAND target has been setting CI_KERNPART
to "none" for a while now altough that was not preventing
the kernel to be installed as UBI volume as well.
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Simply reading /proc/*/stat as a space-separated string will not work
as the process name may itself contain spaces. Hence we must match on
the '(' and ')' characters around the process name and can then handle
the remaining string as space-separated values.
This fixes shell error messages which have been popping up the console
due to spaces in process names being interpreted as field separators.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
find_mmc_part provides a better alternative and all users of
get_partition_by_name have been removed.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Some devices got more than one mmc device.
Allow specifying the root device as 2nd parameter of find_mmc_part so
scripts can avoid matching irrelevant partitions on wrong mmc device.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Added minimal mmc support for helper functions:
- find_mmc_part: Look for a given partition name. Returns the
coresponding partition path
- caldata_extract_mmc: Look for a given partition name and then
extracts the calibration data
- mmc_get_mac_binary: Returns the mac address from a given partition
name and offset
Signed-off-by: Davide Fioravanti <pantanastyle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
[replace dd with caldata_dd, moved sysupgrade mmc to orbi]
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Some packages may require additional group membership for the system
user added by that package. Allow defining additional groups as third
member of the ':'-separated tuple, allowing to specify multiple
','-separated groups with optional GID.
Example:
USERID:=foouser=1000:foogroup=1000:addg1=1001,addg2=1002,addg3
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Per FHS 3.0, /var/lock is the location for lock files [1].
However its current permissions (755) are too restrictive
for use by unprivileged processes.
Debian and Ubuntu set them to 1777, and now so do we.
[1] <https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html#varlockLockFiles>
Signed-off-by: Deomid Ryabkov <rojer@rojer.me>
[fixed typo in commit message, had to remove "rojer" due to git hooks]
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
The `mkdir` commands supports passing multiple arguments to batch create
multiple folders, instead of calling the tool every single time.
If the creation of one of the folders fails, all other folder are still
created and therefore doesn't change the error handling.
Also stop creating `/etc/` explicitly after subfolders of `/etc/` were
already created.
Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
The `sed`-script shouldn't be called multiple times, especially not with
the same files.
This commit merges all files together in a single `sed`-script call.
Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
The option was initially named TARGET_ROOTFS_LN_VAR_TMP, and the check
was correct. When renaming the option to something more suitable, the
check was changed to check for n, but when an option is not set, it's
not n but empty. This results in the check always evaluating to false.
Fix the check by checking for y with ifneq.
Fixes: 57807f50de ("base-files: add option to make /var persistent")
Signed-off-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
In OpenWrt, /var is symlinked to /tmp by default. This is done to reduce
the amount of writes to the flash chip, which often have not the
greatest durability. As a result, things like DHCP or UPnP lease files,
are not persistent across reboots.
Since OpenWrt can run on devices with more durable storage, it makes
sense to have an option for a persistent /var. Add an option to make
/var persistent. When enabled, /var will no longer be symlinked to /tmp,
but /var/run will be symlink to /tmp/run, as it should contains only
files that should not be kept during reboot. The option is off by
default, to maintain the current behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
While an image layout based on MBR and 'bootfs' partition may be easy
to understand for users who are very used to the IBM PC and always have
the option to access the SD card outside of the device (and hence don't
really depend on other recovery methods or dual-boot), in my opinion
it's a dead end for many desirable features on embedded systems,
especially when managed remotely (and hence without an easy option to
access the SD card using another device in case things go wrong, for
example).
Let me explain:
* using a MSDOS/VFAT filesystem to store kernel(s) is problematic, as a
single corruption of the bootfs can render the system into a state
that it no longer boots at all. This makes dual-boot useless, or at
least very tedious to setup with then 2 independent boot partitions
to avoid the single point of failure on a "hot" block (the FAT index
of the boot partition, written every time a file is changed in
bootfs). And well: most targets even store the bootloader environment
in a file in that very same FAT filesystem, hence it cannot be used
to script a reliable dual-boot method (as loading the environment
itself will already fail if the filesystem is corrupted).
* loading the kernel uImage from bootfs and using rootfs inside an
additional partition means the bootloader can only validate the
kernel -- if rootfs is broken or corrupted, this can lead to a reboot
loop, which is often a quite costly thing to happen in terms of
hardware lifetime.
* imitating MBR-boot behavior with a FAT-formatted bootfs partition
(like IBM PC in the 80s and 90s) is just one of many choices on
embedded targets. There are much better options with modern U-Boot
(which is what we use and build from source for all targets booting
off SD cards), see examples in mediatek/mt7622 and mediatek/mt7623.
Hence rename the 'sdcard' feature to 'legacy-sdcard', and prefix
functions with 'legacy_sdcard_' instead of 'sdcard_'.
Tested-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Add a generic sdcard upgrade method instead of duplicating code in yet
another target, and add a feature flag to only install this upgrade
method in targets that set this flag. Copied from mvebu.
Signed-off-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
