It appears that the CFE boot loader found in the XG6846
cannot load kernels over a certain size, and the old
relocate hack is not working.
What to do? We can build a small U-Boot into the image,
make CFE boot that, place the kernel immediately after
U-Boot, and use U-Boot to boot the system instead.
The compiled u-boot.bin becomes around ~300KB and with
LZMA compression it will swiftly fit into 128KB, so
we use two 64KB erase blocks right after the CFE to
store an imagetag:ed U-Boot.
Reviewed-by: Paul Donald <newtwen+github@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
This adds a device tree and build options for the XG6846
switch/router to the BMIPS target.
Hardware:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM6328
- CPU: BMIPS4350 V7.5
- RAM: 64 MB DDR
- NOR Flash: 16 MB parallel (CFE and OS)
- Ethernet LAN: 4x 1Gbit
- Ethernet WAN: 2x 1Gbit, fiber and TP
- Buttons: reset
- LEDs: 7 or 8, power and USB LEDs are GPIO-based, the
LAN LEDs are controlled by the Marvell DSA Switch.
- USB: on some versions
- UART: yes
The device ODM (original device manufacturer) is XAVi
http://www.xavi.com.tw/
It is possible to boot the initramfs version
openwrt-bmips-bcm6328-inteno_xg6846-initramfs.elf from
CFE by interrupting the boot on the UART console and downloading
it from a TFTP server e.g.:
CFE> r 192.168.1.2:openwrt-bmips-bcm6328-inteno_xg6846-initramfs.elf
Installation to target flash is not possible using CFE because
the image becomes too big for the CFE version found in these
devices. A separate U-Boot two-stage solution exists for
actually booting the device.
This device is called a "managed ethernet switch" by the vendor
and "media converter" or "fiber modem" by some of the ISPs
using it: the main purpose is to convert fiber connections to
ethernet, most devices just act as switches bridging the
fiber SFP to ethernet TP.
The device has a Marvell MV88E6352 DSA switch managed by
a BCM6328 BMIPS SoC.
This port makes it possible to use the XG6846 to grab an IP
number from the fiber connection and use all four LAN
connections out, turning it into a proper router.
This support is based mostly on the observations by the people on
the forum thread "Help with Inteno XG6846" where users NPeca75,
mrhaav, systemcrash and csom helped out to reverse engineer the
device. Then I made it work on the BMIPS target, figured out
the two-level switch hierarchy and settings.
Link: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/help-with-inteno-xg6846/68276/14
Signed-off-by: Paul Donald <newtwen+github@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Since we split the Inteno XG6846 "firmware" partition with the
uImage MTD splitter, we need to compile in support for this
splitting method into the BCM6328.
Reviewed-by: Paul Donald <newtwen+github@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Specifications:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM63168 dual 400MHz MIPS
- Flash: 16MB SPI NOR W25Q128WFG
- RAM: 128MB DDR3 W631GG6KB-15
- Ethernet: 1x 1000M, 3x 100M
- Wifi: BCM435F
- 1x USB 2.0 port
- 3x Button
- 12x LED
Flashing via serial
- Connect to the 3.3V TTL UART on the board
(J6 pinout Vcc Rx Tx Gnd) at 115200-8-N-1
- Press any key in the serial console when powering up the board to enter
the CFE prompt
- Configure an interface on your workstation to static IP 192.168.1.100
and connect it to the board
- Start a TFTP server with the firmware image
- On the CFE prompt, enter the command
"f 192.168.1.100:openwrt-bmips-bcm63268-smartrg_sr505n-squashfs-cfe.bin"
Signed-off-by: Kyle Hendry <kylehendrydev@gmail.com>
[Remove unneeded LED labels]
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
bmips has all the dt-bindings includes inside each SoC .dtsi files, so let's
move the new includes there instead of adding them to each board .dts files.
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
Initial conversion to new LED color/function format
and drop label format where possible. The same label
is composed at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
The safe max frame size for this ethernet switch is 1532 bytes,
excluding the DSA TAG and extra VLAN header, so the maximum
outgoing frame is 1542 bytes.
The available overhead is needed when using the DSA switch with
a cascaded Marvell DSA switch, which is something that exist in
real products, in this case the Inteno XG6846.
Use defines at the top of the size for max MTU so it is clear how
we think about this, add comments.
We need to adjust the RX buffer size to fit the new max frame size,
which is 1542 when the DSA tag (6 bytes) and VLAN header (4 extra
bytes) is added.
We also drop this default MTU:
#define ENETSW_TAG_SIZE (6 + VLAN_HLEN)
ndev->mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN + ENETSW_TAG_SIZE;
in favor of just:
ndev->mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN;
I don't know why the default MTU is trying to second guess the
overhead required by DSA and VLAN but the framework will also
try to bump the MTU for e.g. DSA tags, and the VLAN overhead is
not supposed to be included in the MTU, so this is clearly not
right.
Before this patch (on the lan1 DSA port in this case):
dsa_slave_change_mtu: master->max_mtu = 9724, dev->max_mtu = 10218, DSA overhead = 8
dsa_slave_change_mtu: master = extsw, dev = lan1
dsa_slave_change_mtu: master->max_mtu = 1510, dev->max_mtu = 9724, DSA overhead = 6
dsa_slave_change_mtu: master = eth0, dev = extsw
dsa_slave_change_mtu new_master_mtu 1514 > mtu_limit 1510
mdio_mux-0.1:00: nonfatal error -34 setting MTU to 1500 on port 0
My added debug prints before the nonfatal error: the first switch from the top
is the Marvell switch, the second in the bcm6368-enetsw with its 1510 limit.
After this patch the error is gone.
OpenWrt adds a VLAN to each port so we get VLAN tags on all frames. On this
setup we even have 4 more bytes left after the two DSA tags and VLAN so
we can go all the way up to 1532 as MTU.
Testing the new 1532 MTU:
eth0 ext1 enp7s0
.--------. .-----------. cable .------.
| enetsw | <-> | mv88e6152 | <-----> | host |
`--------´ `-----------´ `------´
On the router we set the max MTU for test:
ifconfig eth0 mtu 1520
ifconfig br-wan mtu 1520
ifconfig ext1 mtu 1506
An MTU of 1506 on ext1 is a logic consequence of the above setup:
this is the max bytes actually transferred. The framing added will be:
- 18 bytes standard ethernet header
- 4 bytes VLAN header
- 6 bytes DSA tag for enetsw
- 8 bytes DSA tag for mv88e6152
Sum: 1506 + 18 + 4 + 6 + 8 = 1542 which is out max frame size.
Test pinging from host:
ping -s 1478 -M do 192.168.1.220
PING 192.168.1.220 (192.168.1.220) 1478(1506) bytes of data.
1486 bytes from 192.168.1.220: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.696 ms
1486 bytes from 192.168.1.220: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.615 ms
Test pinging from router:
PING 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2): 1478 data bytes
1486 bytes from 192.168.1.2: seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.931 ms
1486 bytes from 192.168.1.2: seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.810 ms
The max IP packet without headers is 1478, the outgoing ICMP packet is
1506 bytes. Then the DSA, VLAN and ethernet overhead is added.
Let us verify the contents of the resulting ethernet frame of 1542 bytes.
Ping packet on router side as viewed with tcpdump:
00:54:51.900869 AF Unknown (1429722180), length 1538:
0x0000: 3d93 bcae c56b a83d 8874 0300 0004 8100 =....k.=.t......
0x0010: 0000 dada 0000 c020 0fff 0800 4500 05e2 ............E...
0x0020: 0000 4000 4001 b0ec c0a8 0102 c0a8 01dc ..@.@...........
0x0030: 0800 7628 00c3 0001 f5da 1d65 0000 0000 ..v(.......e....
0x0040: ce65 0a00 0000 0000 1011 1213 1415 1617 .e..............
0x0050: 1819 1a1b 1c1d 1e1f 2021 2223 2425 2627 .........!"#$%&'
0x0060: 2829 2a2b 2c2d 2e2f 3031 3233 3435 3637 ()*+,-./0123456
(...)
- 3d93 = First four bytes are the last two bytes of the destination
ethernet address I don't know why the first four are missing,
but it sure explains why the paket is 1538 bytes and not 1542
which is the actual max frame size.
- bcae c56b a83b = source ethernet address
- 8874 0300 0004 = Broadcom enetsw DSA tag
- 8100 0000 = VLAN 802.1Q header
- dada 0000 c020 0fff = EDSA tag for the Marvell (outer) switch,
- 0800 is the ethertype (part of the EDSA tag technically)
- Next follows the contents of the ping packet as it appears if
we dump it on the DSA interface such as tcpdump -i lan1
etc, there we get the stripped out packet, 1506 bytes.
- At the end 4 bytes of FCS.
This clearly illustrates that the DSA tag is included in the MTU
which we set up in Linux, but the VLAN tag and ethernet headers and
checksum is not.
Tested-by: Paul Donald <newtwen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
Innacomm W3400V6 is an xDSL B/G wireless router based on Broadcom
BCM6328 SoC.
SoC: Broadcom BCM6328
CPU: BMIPS4350 V8.0, 320 MHz, 1 core
Flash: SPI-NOR 8MB, MX25L6406E
RAM: 64 MB
Ethernet: 4x 10/100 Mbps
Switch: Integrated
Wireless: 802.11b/g, BCM4312
LEDs/Buttons: 9x / 2x
Flash instruction, web UI:
1. Set a static IP on your computer compatible with 192.168.1.1, i.e
192.168.1.100.
2. Connect the ethernet cable from your computer to the router.
3. Make sure the router is powered off.
4. Press the reset button, don't release it yet!
5. While pressing reset, power on the router.
6. Wait 10 seconds or more.
Note: The power LED is red at first then turns to solid green when
ready.
7. Release the reset button.
8. Browse to 192.168.1.1
9. Select .bin file.
10. Upgrade the image.
11. Wait for it to reboot.
Signed-off-by: Sieng-Piaw Liew <liew.s.piaw@gmail.com>
[Fix cfe nvmem-layout and pinctrl_leds indentation]
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
Manually rebased:
generic/hack-6.1/220-arm-gc_sections.patch
armsr/patches-6.1/221-armsr-disable_gc_sections_armv7.patch
All other patches automatically rebased.
Signed-off-by: John Audia <therealgraysky@proton.me>
The Arcadyan AR7516, AKA Orange Bright Box or EE Bright Box 1, is a wifi
fast ethernet router, 2.4 GHz single band with two internal antennas. It
comes with a horizontal stand black shiny casing.
Newer Bright Box 1 model stands vertically, and comes with a totally
different board inside, not compatible with this firmware.
Hardware:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM6328
- CPU: single core BMIPS4350 V7.5 @ 320Mhz
- RAM: 64 MB DDR2
- Flash: 8 MB SPI NOR
- Ethernet LAN: 4x 100Mbit
- Wifi 2.4 GHz: Broadcom BCM43227 802.11bgn (onboard)
- USB: 1x 2.0
- ADSL: yes, unsupported
- Buttons: 2x
- LEDs: 9x, power LED is hardware controlled
- UART: yes
Installation in two steps, new CFE bootloader and firmware:
Install new CFE:
1. Power off the router and press the RESET button
2. Power on the router and wait some seconds
3. Release the RESET button
3. Browse to http://192.168.1.1, this web interface will offer both
firmware (“Software”) upgrade and bootloader upgrade; be sure to
use the bootloader section of the upload form.
4. Upload the new CFE (availabe at the wiki page)
5. Wait about a minute for flashing to finish and reboot into the new bootloader.
Install OpenWrt via new CFE web UI:
1. After installing the new CFE, visit http://192.168.1.1
2. Upload the Openwrt cfe firmware
5. Wait a few minutes for it to finish
Signed-off-by: Daniel González Cabanelas <dgcbueu@gmail.com>
The NuCom R5010UNv2 is a wifi fast ethernet router, 2.4 GHz single band
with two external antennas.
Hardware:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM6328
- CPU: single core BMIPS4350 V7.5 @ 320Mhz
- RAM: 64 MB DDR2
- Flash: 16 MB SPI NOR
- Ethernet LAN: 4x 100Mbit
- Wifi 2.4 GHz: Broadcom BCM43217 802.11bgn (onboard)
- USB: 1x 2.0
- Buttons: 2x
- ADSL: yes, unsupported
- LEDs: 7x
- UART: yes
Installation via CFE web UI:
1. Power off the router and press the RESET button
2. Power on the router and wait 12 or more seconds
3. Release the RESET button
4. Browse to http://192.168.1.1 and upload the Openwrt cfe firmware
5. Wait a few minutes for it to finish
Signed-off-by: Daniel González Cabanelas <dgcbueu@gmail.com>
The data RAC is left disabled by the bootloader in some SoCs, at least in
the core it boots from. Enabling this feature increases the performance up
to +30% depending on the task.
The kernel enables the whole RAC unconditionally on BMIPS3300 CPUs. Enable
the data RAC in a similar way also for BMIPS4350.
Tested on DGND3700 v1 (BCM6368) and HG556a (BCM6358).
Signed-off-by: Daniel González Cabanelas <dgcbueu@gmail.com>
The Comtrend VG-8050 is a wifi gigabit ethernet router, 2.4 GHz single band with
two external antennas.
Hardware:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM63169
- CPU: dual core BMIPS4350 @ 400Mhz
- RAM: 128 MB DDR
- Flash: 128 MB NAND
- LAN switch: Broadcom BCM53125, 5x 1Gbit
- Wifi 2.4 GHz: SoC (BCM63268) 802.11bgn
- USB: 1x 2.0 (optional)
- Buttons: 2x (reset)
- LEDs: yes
- UART: yes
Installation via CFE web UI:
1. Power off the router.
2. Press reset button near the power switch.
3. Keep it pressed while powering up during ~20+ seconds.
4. Browse to http://192.168.1.1 and upload the firmware.
5. Wait a few minutes for it to finish.
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
All switch ports are labeled as port@address so let's follow the same pattern.
Fixes: ed79519b8d ("bmips: add support for Netgear DGND3700 v1, DGND3800B")
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
The Sercomm AD1018 is a wifi fast ethernet router, 2.4 GHz single band with
two internal antennas.
Hardware:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM6328
- CPU: single core BMIPS4350 @ 320Mhz
- RAM: 64 MB (v1) / 128 MB (v2) DDR
- Flash: 128 MB NAND
- Ethernet LAN: 4x 100Mbit
- Wifi 2.4 GHz: miniPCI Broadcom BCM43217 802.11bgn
- USB: 1x 2.0
- Buttons: 3x (reset)
- LEDs: yes
- UART: yes
Installation via OEM web UI:
1. Use the admin credentials to login via web UI
2. Go to Managament->Update firmware and select the OpenWrt CFE firmware
3. Press "Update Firmware" button and wait some minutes until it finish
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
This is needed on devices like Sercomm AD1018 for booting recent kernels due
to bigger kernels.
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
The Actiontec R1000H is a gigabit wifi router, 2.4 GHz single band with
two external antennas. It comes with a coaxial HomePNA port.
Hardware:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM6368
- CPU: dual core BMIPS4350 V3.1 @400Mhz
- RAM: 64 MB DDR
- Flash: 32 MB parallel NOR
- LAN switch: Broadcom BCM53115, 5x 1Gbit
- LAN coaxial : 1x HPNA 3.1, CG3211 + CG3213
- Wifi 2.4 GHz: Broadcom BCM4322 802.11bgn
- USB: 1x 2.0
- Buttons: 2x, 1 reset
- LEDs: 7x
- UART: yes
The HPNA hardware probably needs a firmware to make the coaxial port work.
In the OEM firmware, it's apparently sent with an utility (inhpna) through
the ethernet port.
Installation via CFE web UI:
1. Connect the UART serial port.
2. Power on the router and press enter at the console prompt to stop the
bootloader.
4. Browse to http://192.168.1.1 and upload the OpenWrt CFE firmware
5. Wait a few minutes for it to finish
Signed-off-by: Daniel González Cabanelas <dgcbueu@gmail.com>
Now that JFFS2 cleanmarkers are supported on the standard nand_do_upgrade
function we can start using it on bmips.
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
The DGND3700v2 renames the cferam bootloader from cferam to cfeXXX, where XXX
is the number of firmware upgrades performed by the bootloader. Other bcm63xx
devices rename cferam.000 to cferam.XXX, but this device is special because
the cferam name isn't changed on the first firmware flashing but it's changed
on the subsequent ones.
Therefore, we need to look for "cfe" instead of "cferam" to properly detect
the cferam partition and fix the bootlop.
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
The Comtrend AR-5381u is a wifi fast ethernet router, 2.4 GHz single band with
two internal antennas.
Hardware:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM6328
- CPU: single core BMIPS4350 @ 320Mhz
- RAM: 64 MB DDR
- Flash: 16 MB SPI NOR
- Ethernet LAN: 4x 100Mbit
- Wifi 2.4 GHz: miniPCI Broadcom BCM43225 802.11bgn
- USB: 1x 2.0
- Buttons: 1x (reset)
- LEDs: yes
- UART: yes
Installation via CFE web UI:
1. Power off the router.
2. Press reset button near the power switch.
3. Keep it pressed while powering up during ~20+ seconds.
4. Browse to http://192.168.1.1 and upload the firmware.
5. Wait a few minutes for it to finish.
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
The Comtrend WAP-5813n is a wifi gigabit router, 2.4 GHz single band with
two external antennas.
Hardware:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM6369
- CPU: dual core BMIPS4350 @ 400Mhz
- RAM: 64 MB DDR
- Flash: 8 MB parallel NOR
- LAN switch: Broadcom BCM53115, 5x 1Gbit
- Wifi 2.4 GHz: miniPCI Broadcom BCM4322 802.11bgn
- USB: 1x 2.0 (optional)
- Buttons: 3x (reset)
- LEDs: yes
- UART: yes
Installation via CFE web UI:
1. Power off the router.
2. Press reset button near the power switch.
3. Keep it pressed while powering up during ~20+ seconds.
4. Browse to http://192.168.1.1 and upload the firmware.
5. Wait a few minutes for it to finish.
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
The Comtrend VR-3025un is a wifi gigabit router, 2.4 GHz single band with
two external antennas.
Hardware:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM6368
- CPU: dual core BMIPS4350 @ 400Mhz
- RAM: 64 MB DDR
- Flash: 8 MB parallel NOR
- Ethernet LAN: 4x 100Mbit
- Wifi 2.4 GHz: miniPCI Broadcom BCM43222 802.11bgn
- USB: 1x 2.0
- Buttons: 1x (reset)
- LEDs: yes
- UART: yes
Installation via CFE web UI:
1. Power off the router.
2. Press reset button near the antenna.
3. Keep it pressed while powering up during ~20+ seconds.
4. Browse to http://192.168.1.1 and upload the firmware.
5. Wait a few minutes for it to finish.
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
Align all the device tree files and follow the same criteria before more
devices are ported from bcm63xx and this goes out of control.
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
The Netgear EVG2000 is a wifi gigabit router, 2.4 GHz single band with
two internal antennas integrated in the main PCB.
Hardware:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM6369
- CPU: dual core BMIPS4350 V3.1 @400Mhz
- RAM: 64 MB DDR
- Flash: 16 MB parallel NOR
- LAN switch: Broadcom BCM53115, 5x 1Gbit
- Wifi 2.4 GHz: Broadcom BCM4322 802.11bgn
- USB: 2x 2.0
- Buttons: 2x, 1 reset
- LEDs: 10x
- FXS: 2x
- UART: yes
Installation via CFE web UI:
1. Power off the router and make a temporal TX-RX shortcircuit on the
serial pins.
2. Power on the router and wait 3 or more seconds
3. Remove the TX-RX shortcircuit
4. Browse to http://192.168.1.1 or http://192.168.0.1 and upload the
firmware
5. Wait a few minutes for it to finish
Signed-off-by: Daniel González Cabanelas <dgcbueu@gmail.com>
The Netgear DGND3700 v1 and DGND3800B are the same device but with
different factory firmwares. It's an xDSL wifi router with a slim black
shiny casing and 4 PCB internal antennas connected via UFL to a miniPCI
detachable card.
Hardware:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM6368
- CPU: dual core BMIPS4350 V3.1 @400Mhz
- RAM: 128 MB DDR
- NOR Flash: 32 MB parallel (CFE and OS)
- NAND flash: 128 MB (empty)
- Ethernet LAN: 5x 1Gbit
- Wifi 2.4 GHz: Broadcom BCM43222 802.11bgn
- Wifi 5 GHz: Broadcom BCM43222 802.11abgn
- USB: 2x 2.0
- Buttons: 3x, 1 reset
- LEDs: 11x
- UART: yes
Installation via OEM web UI:
1. Open the Netgear administration web interface, by default:
http://192.168.0.1
user: admin
password: password
2. Look for "upgrade firmware" and proceed
3. Wait some minutes until it finishes
Signed-off-by: Daniel González Cabanelas <dgcbueu@gmail.com>
This allows booting bigger ramdisk images via TFTP at the cost of breaking 32M
RAM compatibility, but those devices have been unable to boot ramdisks on this
target for some time anyway due to not having enough RAM.
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
The Observa VH4032N is an xDSL wifi router with a vertical white casing
and two internal antennas connected via UFL.
Hardware:
- SoC: Broadcom BCM6368
- CPU: dual core BMIPS4350 V3.1 @400MHz
- RAM: 128 MB DDR
- Flash: 32 MB parallel NOR
- Ethernet LAN: 4x 100Mbit
- Wifi 2.4/5 GHz: onboard Broadcom BCM43222 802.11abgn
- USB: 3x 2.0
- Buttons: 2x, 1 reset
- LEDs: 8x, blue and red
- UART: 1x
Installation via OEM web UI:
1. Use the admin credentials to login via web UI
2. Go to Managament->Update firmware and select the OpenWrt CFE firmware
3. Press "Update Firmware" button and wait some minutes until it finish
Signed-off-by: Daniel González Cabanelas <dgcbueu@gmail.com>
