with 6.1, the kernel no longer fitted into the 16 MiB and
kicking down the can and increasing KERNEL_SIZE to 20 MiB
didn't help as the device failed to boot.
Using 'kernel-bin | gzip | uimage gzip' didn't work since the
uboot does not have enough heap to decompress these big kernels.
And finally playing around with uboot was more a hassle than
converting this device to take the simpleImage-boot-route in
the future.
Note: The device now takes even longer on the first boot-up after
the flash due to JFFS2 initializing all the remaining flash.
Be prepared to wait up to 10 minutes before the green status LED
stops blinking and will shine a solid green!
(On the plus site: the device now has ~10 MiB of additional
space for rootfs+rootfs_data).
Note2: This patch includes a kernel patch refresh.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Kernel and initramfs size grows. Now uncompressed initramfs image and
regular kernel image overlaps configured area:
Initramfs:
WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/simpleImage.br200-wp
INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x1428688) overlaps the address of the
wrapper(0x1000000)
INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x1500000)
WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/simpleImage.tl-wdr4900-v1
INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x1428688) overlaps the address of the
wrapper(0x1000000)
INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x1500000)
WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/simpleImage.ws-ap3715i
INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x1428688) overlaps the address of the
wrapper(0x1000000)
INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x1500000)
Regular image:
WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/simpleImage.br200-wp
INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x10e0688) overlaps the address of the
wrapper(0x1000000)
INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x1100000)
WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/simpleImage.tl-wdr4900-v1
INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x10e0688) overlaps the address of the
wrapper(0x1000000)
INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x1100000)
WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/simpleImage.ws-ap3715i
INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x10e0688) overlaps the address of the
wrapper(0x1000000)
INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x1100000)
Let's change wrapper address to safe value.
Tested on: TL-WDR4900, BR200-WP
Signed-off-by: Pawel Dembicki <paweldembicki@gmail.com>
The boot-procedure for the Extreme WS-AP3825I is vfragile to put it
mildly. It does not relocate the FDT properly. It currently exercises
every step manually as well as coming with a pre-padded dtb.
Use the PowerPC bootwrapper code for legacy platforms with a pre-filles
DTS instead. We still need to ship a fit image to not break the fdt
resize / relocate instructions on existing boards. This does not require
adapting the U-Boot bootcommand.
Ref: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/12223
Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
