ath79 has was bumped to 5.10. With this, as with every kernel change,
the kernel has become larger. However, although the kernel gets bigger,
there are still enough flash resources. But the RAM reaches its capacity
limits. The tiny image comes with fewer kernel flags enabled and
fewer daemons.
Improves: 15aa53d7ee ("ath79: switch to Kernel 5.10")
Tested-by: Robert Foss <me@robertfoss.se>
Signed-off-by: Nick Hainke <vincent@systemli.org>
(cherry picked from commit f4415f7635)
After the kernel has switched version to 5.10, JA76PF2 and
RouterStations lost the capability to sysupgrade the OpenWrt version.
The cause is the lack of porting the patches responsible for partial
flash erase block writing and these boards FIS directory and RedBoot
config partitions share the same erase block. Because of that the FIS
directory can't be updated to accommodate kernel/rootfs partition size
changes. This could be remedied by bootloader update, but it is very
intrusive and could potentially lead to non-trivial recovery procedure,
if something went wrong. The less difficult option is to use OpenWrt
kernel loader, which will let us use static partition sizes and employ
mtd splitter to dynamically adjust kernel and rootfs partition sizes.
On sysupgrade from ath79 19.07 or 21.02 image, which still let to modify
FIS directory, the loader will be written to kernel partition, while the
kernel+rootfs to rootfs partition.
The caveats are:
* image format changes, no possible upgrade from ar71xx target images
* downgrade to any older OpenWrt version will require TFTP recovery or
usage of bootloader command line interface
To downgrade to 19.07 or 21.02, or to upgrade if one is already on
OpenWrt with kernel 5.10, for RouterStations use TFTP recovery
procedure. For JA76PF2 use instructions from this commit message:
commit 0cc87b3bac ("ath79: image: disable sysupgrade images for routerstations and ja76pf2"),
replacing kernel image with loader (loader.bin suffix) and rootfs
image with firmware (firmware.bin suffix).
Fixes: b10d604459 ("kernel: add linux 5.10 support")
Fixes: 15aa53d7ee ("ath79: switch to Kernel 5.10")
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Maciej Nowak <tmn505@gmail.com>
(mkubntimage was moved to generic-ubnt.mk)
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5c142aad7b)
Back in the AR71XX days, the lzma-loader code could be customized
based on the $BOARD variable. These would be passed as a
compile-time -DCONFIG_BOARD_$DEVICE_MODEL flag to the compiler.
Hence, the lzma-loader would be able to include device-specific
fixups.
Note: There's still a fixup for the TpLink TL-WR1043ND V1 found
in the lzma-loader's board.c code. But since the days of AR71XX
I couldn't find a forum post or bug reported. So, I left it
as is to not break anything by enabling it.
=> If you have a TL-WR1043ND V1 and you have problem with
the ethernet: let me know. Because otherwise, the fixup
might simply no longer needed with ath79 and it can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
These instructions are repeated for a few devices now, let's move
them to shared definition so we do not repeat ourselves too often.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
sysupgrade metadata is not flashed to the device, so check-size
should be called _before_ adding metadata to the image.
While at it, do some obvious wrapping improvements.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Acked-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
Specifications:
SoC: QCA9533
DRAM: 32Mb DDR1
Flash: 8/16Mb SPI-NOR
LAN: 4x 10/100Mbps via AR8229 switch (integrated into SoC)
on GMII
WAN: 1x 10/100Mbps via MII
WLAN: QCA9530
USB: 1x 2.0
UART: standard QCA UART header
JTAG: yes
Button: 1x WPS, 1x reset
LEDs: 8x LEDs
A version with 4Mb flash is also available, but due to lack of
enough space it's not supported.
As the original flash layout does not provide enough space for
the kernel (1472k), the firmware uses OKLI and concat flash to
overcome the limitation without changing the boot address of the
bootloaders.
Installation:
1. Original bootloader
Connect the board to ethernet
Set up a server with an IP address of 192.168.1.10
Make the openwrt-ath79-generic-qca_ap143-8m-squashfs-factory.bin
available via TFTP
tftpboot 0x80060000 openwrt-ath79-generic-qca_ap143-8m-squashfs-factory.bin
erase 0x9f050000 +$filesize
cp.b $fileaddr 0x9f050000 $filesize
Reboot the board.
2. pepe2k's u-boot_mod
Connect the board to ethernet
Set up a server with an IP address of 192.168.1.10
Make the openwrt-ath79-generic-qca_ap143-8m-squashfs-factory.bin
available via TFTP, as "firmware.bin"
run fw_upg
Reboot the board.
For the 16M version of the board, please use
openwrt-ath79-generic-qca_ap143-16m-squashfs-factory.bin
Signed-off-by: Zoltan HERPAI <wigyori@uid0.hu>
[use fwconcatX names, drop redundant uart status, fix IMAGE_SIZE,
set up IMAGE/factory.bin without metadata]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
This fixes a small regression where the lzma-loader variable values
are being shared between boards that require different configurations.
If not set to "" globally, a device without these settings will just take
the last values another device has set before in the queue.
Fixes: 1b8bd17c2d ("ath79: lzma-loader: allow setting custom kernel magic")
Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt <mcpratt@pm.me>
[add detailed explanation to the commit message]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
...and max flash offset
The mtdsplit parser was recently refactored
to allow the kernel to have custom image header magic.
Let's also do this for the lzma-loader
For example:
When implemented together,
this allows the kernel to "appear" to be a rootfs
by OEM software in order to write an image
that is actually kernel + rootfs.
At the same time,
it would boot to openwrt normally
by setting the same magic in DTS.
Both of the variables
have a default value that is unchanged
when not defined in the makefiles
This has no effect on the size of the loader
when lzma compressed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt <mcpratt@pm.me>
The factory images need to embed specific IDs to pass verification with
the OEM firmware (including TFTP recovery), so they need to be
per-device variables.
Fixes: ab1584a797 ("ath79: netgear: trim down uImage customisations")
Fixes: 459c8c9ef8 ("ath79: add support for ZyXEL NBG6616")
Reported-by: Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin-openwrt@juszkiewicz.com.pl>
Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>
[minor commit message adjustments, sort DEVICE_VARS]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
The majority of our targets provide a default value for the variable
SUPPORTED_DEVICES, which is used in images to check against the
compatible on a running device:
SUPPORTED_DEVICES := $(subst _,$(comma),$(1))
At the moment, this is implemented in the Device/Default block of
the individual targets or even subtargets. However, since we
standardized device names and compatible in the recent past, almost
all targets are following the same scheme now:
device/image name: vendor_model
compatible: vendor,model
The equal redundant definitions are a symptom of this process.
Consequently, this patch moves the definition to image.mk making it
a global default. For the few targets not using the scheme above,
SUPPORTED_DEVICES will be defined to a different value in
Device/Default anyway, overwriting the default. In other words:
This change is supposed to be cosmetic.
This can be used as a global measure to get the current compatible
with: $(firstword $(SUPPORTED_DEVICES))
(Though this is not precisely an achievement of this commit.)
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Because the bug described in FS#2428 has been fixed with bf2870c1d9
("kernel: fix mtd partition erase < parent_erasesize writes") these
devices can now safely do sysupgrade.
Restore sysupgrade support disabled in:
0cc87b3bac ("ath79: image: disable sysupgrade images for routerstations
and ja76pf2")
cc5256a8bf ("ath79: base-files: disable sysupgrade for routerstations
and ja76pf2")
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Maciej Nowak <tmn505@gmail.com>
[move Build block, remove check-size argument, wrap sysupgrade line,
make commit message easier to read]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
This is the same as loader-kernel since the KERNEL_CMDLINE
parameter has been removed in [1] and not used at all anyway.
Remove it.
[1] f77db1a590 ("ath79: cleanup image build code")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Acked-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org>
Many target use a repetitive if-include scheme for their subtarget
image files, though their names are consistent with the subtarget
names.
This patch removes these redundant conditions and just uses the
variable for the include where the target setup allows it.
For sunxi, this includes a trivial rename of the subtarget image
Makefiles.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Now that check-size uses IMAGE_SIZE by default, we can skip the argument from
image recipes to reduce redundancy.
Signed-off-by: Sungbo Eo <mans0n@gorani.run>
[do not touch ar71xx]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
This commit creates the ath79/mikrotik subtarget in order to support
MikroTik devices based on Qualcomm Atheros MIPS SoCs.
MikroTik devices need a couple of specific features: the split MiNOR
firmware MTD format, which is not used by other devices, and the 4k
sector erase size on SPI NOR storage, which can not be added to the
ath79/generic and ath79/nand subtargets now.
Additionally, the commit moves the two MikroTik devices already in
the generic and nand subtargets to this new one.
Tested on the RB922 board and the wAP AC router.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pueyo Centelles <roger.pueyo@guifi.net>
IMAGE_SIZE is widely used in many targets. Declare it in the default template to
clean up redundant code. This also prevents deriving IMAGE_SIZE unintentionally
from the previously defined device.
While at it, remove duplicate KERNEL_SIZE declaration.
Signed-off-by: Sungbo Eo <mans0n@gorani.run>
In certain cases, the uncompressed initramfs image will overwrite
the lzma-loader, which is currently only 10 MB away from kernel image
start. To prevent this, change LZMA_TEXT_START to 24 MB, so loader
and compressed image have 8 MB at the end of RAM and uncompressed
image has 24 MB available.
This is only enabled for ath79 at the moment, as there we can be sure
that all devices have 32+ MB RAM and TARGET_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_LZMA
is not enabled there.
Despite, since lzma-loader is currently build specifically for ath79
anyway, there is no need to re-specify LOADADDR and LZMA_TEXT_START
in image/Makefile, so the values are set directly in
image/lzma-loader/Makefile and the overwrite in image/Makefile is
removed.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Tested-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>
There are two recent commits stating to add support for Netgear
WNDR4300, where the second one seems to be just leftover from
an earlier patch having been rebased.
Since the first patch already provides support in the most recent
state, just revert the second one.
This reverts commit cd87272eb2.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Specifications:
- SoC: AR9341
- RAM: 64M
- Flash: 16M
- Ethernet: 1 * FE port
- WiFi: ar934x-wmac
- Sound: WM8918 DAC
1 * 3.5mm headphone jack
2 * RCA connectors for speakers
1 * SPDIF out
- USB: 1 * USB2.0 port
Flash instruction:
Upload generated factory image via vendor's web interface.
Notes:
A. Audio stuff:
1. Since AR934x, all pins for peripheral blocks can be mapped to
any available GPIOs. We currently don't have a PCM/I2S driver
for AR934x so pinmux for i2s and SPDIF are bound to i2c gpio
node. This should be moved into I2S node when a PCM/I2S driver
is available.
2. The i2c-gpio node is for WM8918. DT binding for it can't be added
currently due to a missing clock from I2S PLL.
B. Factory image:
Image contains a image header and a tar.gz archive.
1. Header: A 288 byte header that has nothing to do with appended
tarball. Format:
0x0-0x7 and 0x18-0x1F: magic values
0x20: Model number string
0xFC: Action string. It's either "update" or "backup"
0x11C: A 1 byte checksum. It's XOR result of 0x8-0x11B
Firmware doesn't care about the rest of the header as long as
checksum result is correct.
The same header is used for backup and update routines so the
magic values and model number can be obtained by generating a
backup bin and grab values from it.
2. Tarball: It contains two files named uImage and rootfs, which
will be flashed into corresponding mtd partition.
Writing a special utility that can only output a fixed binary
blob is overkill so factory image header is placed under
image/bin instead.
C. LED
The wifi led has "Wi-Fi" marked on the case but vendor's firmware
used it as system status indicator. I did the same in this device
support patch.
D. Firmware
Factory u-boot is built without 'savenv' support so it's impossible
to change kernel offset. A 2MB kernel partition won't be enough in
the future. OKLI loader is used here to migrate this problem:
1. add OKLI image magic support into uImage parser.
2. build an OKLI loader, compress it with lzma and add a normal
uImage header.
3. flash the loader to where the original kernel supposed to be.
4. create a uImage firmware using OKLI loader.
5. flash the created firmware to where rootfs supposed to be.
By doing so, u-boot will start OKLI loader, which will then load
the actual kernel at 0x20000.
The kernel partition is 2MB, which is too much for our loader.
To save this space, "mtd-concat" is used here:
1. create a 64K (1 erase block) partition for OKLI loader and
create another partition with the left space.
2. concatenate rootfs and this partition into a virtual flash.
3. use the virtual flash for firmware partition.
Currently OKLI loader is flashed with factory image only.
sysupgrade won't replace it. Since it only has one function
and it works for several years, its unlikely to have some bugs
that requires a replacement.
Signed-off-by: Chuanhong Guo <gch981213@gmail.com>
Buffalo BHR-4GRV2 is a wired router, based on Qualcomm Atheros
QCA9558.
Ported from ar71xx target.
Specification:
- Qualcomm Atheros QCA9558
- 64 MB of RAM
- 16 MB of Flash
- 5x 10/100/1000 Ethernet
- QCA8337N
- 4x LEDs, 2x keys
- UART header on PCB
- Vcc, TX, RX, GND from LED side
- 115200n8
Flash instruction using factory image:
1. Connect the computer to the LAN port of BHR-4GRV2
2. Connect power cable to BHR-4GRV2 and turn on it
3. Access to "http://192.168.12.1/" and open firmware update
page ("ファームウェア更新")
4. Select the OpenWrt factory image and click update ("更新実行")
button
5. Wait ~120 seconds to complete flashing
Signed-off-by: INAGAKI Hiroshi <musashino.open@gmail.com>
Netgear WNR612 v2:
- cpu Atheros AR7240 (Python) @400MHz
- flash 4MB
- ram 32MB
- ethernet 10/100: 1xwan + 2xlan (only two)
- radio AR9285
As there is a rebranded WNR612v2 called ON Networks N150R, add
a dtsi which includes all device support, and add a separate dts
for the device only (with a separate one for the subsequent N150R).
Signed-off-by: Zoltan HERPAI <wigyori@uid0.hu>
Import all improvements made in the lzma-loader since development on the
ath79 target started.
This also reverts fe594bf90d ("ath79: fix loader-okli, lzma-loader"), as
is obsoleted by 2ad60168b6af ("ar71xx: lzma-loader: move padding workaround
to gzip step").
Likely, many of the changes should be ported to the ramips lzma-loader as
well, but I don't have a device to test this.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Remove recipes for not yet migrated boards. Drop variables which aren't
required due to the switch to devicetree like boardname.
Drop the legacy image build code. Boards added to this target shouldn't
use the legacy image build code anyway.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
This target aims to replace ar71xx mid-term. The big part that is still
missing is making the MMIO/AHB wifi work using OF. NAND and mikrotik
subtargets will follow.
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
