Since the nvmem-based approach for retrieving MAC addresses
appears to depend on the addresses being set up after the
partitions, it is no longer possible to keep the MAC address
setup in shared DTSI files while the partitions itself are
set up in DTS files for the individual devices.
In ath79 the firmware partition is typically located somewhere
"in the middle" of the partition table. Thus, it's not trivial
to share the partitions containing MAC address information in
a common DTSI (like we did in some cases on ramips).
In this commit, MAC address setup is thus moved to the relevant
partitions, and in most cases needs to be duplicated. While
the duplication is not really nice, it eventually provides a
cleaner and more tidy setup, making the DTS(I) file
fragmentation a bit more logical. This should also help
with adding new devices, as information is distributed across
less locations.
For consistency, this commit also moves the mtd-cal-data property
"down" together with the MAC address setup, so it's not based
on a partition before the latter is defined either. (This is
only done for those files touched due to nvmem conversion.)
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
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>
