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ath79/tiny kernel config has CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR_USE_4K_SECTORS=y from commit 05d35403b211ccb9bf20e2b3c0b7a30c82c6d6a2 Because of this, these changes are required for 2 reasons: 1. Senao devices in ath79/tiny with a 'failsafe' partition and the tar.gz sysupgrade platform and a flash chip that supports 4k sectors will fail to reboot to openwrt after a sysupgrade. the stored checksum is made with the 64k blocksize length of the image to be flashed, and the actual checksum changes after flashing due to JFFS2 space being formatted within the length of the rootfs from the image example: 0x440000 length of kernel + rootfs (from sysupgrade.bin) 0x439000 offset of rootfs_data (from kernel log) 2. for boards with flash chips that support 4k sectors: saving configuration over sysupgrade is not possible because sysupgrade.tgz is appended at a 64k boundary and the mtd parser starts JFFS2 at a 4k boundary. for boards with flash chips that do not support 4k sectors: partitioning with 4k boundaries causes a boot loop from the mtd parser not finding kernel and rootfs. Also: Some of the Senao boards that belong in ath79/tiny, for example ENH202, have a flash chip that does not support 4k sectors (no SECT_4K symbol in upstream source). Because of this, partitioning must be different for these devices depending on the flash chip model detected by the kernel. Therefore: this creates 2 DTSI files to replace the single one with 64k partitioning for 4k and 64k partitioning respectively. Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt <mcpratt@pm.me> (cherry picked from commit a58cb22bbe4bac17e7421a0ad6bf7929fcd56599)
OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
Sunshine!
Development
To build your own firmware you need a GNU/Linux, BSD or MacOSX system (case sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin is unsupported because of the lack of a case sensitive file system.
Requirements
You need the following tools to compile OpenWrt, the package names vary between distributions. A complete list with distribution specific packages is found in the Build System Setup documentation.
gcc binutils bzip2 flex python3 perl make find grep diff unzip gawk getopt
subversion libz-dev libc-dev rsync which
Quickstart
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Run
./scripts/feeds update -ato obtain all the latest package definitions defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default -
Run
./scripts/feeds install -ato install symlinks for all obtained packages into package/feeds/ -
Run
make menuconfigto select your preferred configuration for the toolchain, target system & firmware packages. -
Run
maketo build your firmware. This will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain and then cross-compile the GNU/Linux kernel & all chosen applications for your target system.
Related Repositories
The main repository uses multiple sub-repositories to manage packages of
different categories. All packages are installed via the OpenWrt package
manager called opkg. If you're looking to develop the web interface or port
packages to OpenWrt, please find the fitting repository below.
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LuCI Web Interface: Modern and modular interface to control the device via a web browser.
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OpenWrt Packages: Community repository of ported packages.
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OpenWrt Routing: Packages specifically focused on (mesh) routing.
Support Information
For a list of supported devices see the OpenWrt Hardware Database
Documentation
Support Community
- Forum: For usage, projects, discussions and hardware advise.
- Support Chat: Channel
#openwrton freenode.net.
Developer Community
- Bug Reports: Report bugs in OpenWrt
- Dev Mailing List: Send patches
- Dev Chat: Channel
#openwrt-develon freenode.net.
License
OpenWrt is licensed under GPL-2.0