openwrt/target/linux/ath79/image/common-mikrotik.mk
John Thomson 68add5f364 ath79: mikrotik: use OpenWrt loader for initram image
Return to using the OpenWrt kernel loader to decompress and load kernel
initram image.

Continue to use the vmlinuz kernel for squashfs.

Mikrotik's bootloader RouterBOOT on some ath79 devices is
failing to boot the current initram, due to the size of the initram image.

On the ath79 wAP-ac:
a 5.7MiB initram image would fail to boot
After this change:
a 6.6MiB initram image successfully loads

This partially reverts commit e91344776b.

An alternative of using RouterBOOT's capability of loading an initrd ELF
section was investigated, but the OpenWrt kernel loader allows larger image.

Signed-off-by: John Thomson <git@johnthomson.fastmail.com.au>
(cherry picked from commit 62b72eafe4)
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARÈNE <hacks@slashdirt.org>
Fixes: #9954
2022-11-27 15:43:08 +01:00

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define Device/mikrotik
DEVICE_VENDOR := MikroTik
LOADER_TYPE := elf
KERNEL_NAME := vmlinuz
KERNEL := kernel-bin | append-dtb-elf
KERNEL_INITRAMFS_NAME := vmlinux-initramfs
KERNEL_INITRAMFS := kernel-bin | append-dtb | lzma | loader-kernel
endef
define Device/mikrotik_nor
$(Device/mikrotik)
IMAGE/sysupgrade.bin := append-kernel | kernel2minor -s 1024 -e | \
pad-to $$$$(BLOCKSIZE) | append-rootfs | pad-rootfs | \
check-size | append-metadata
endef
define Device/mikrotik_nand
$(Device/mikrotik)
IMAGE/sysupgrade.bin = append-kernel | kernel2minor -s 2048 -e -c | \
sysupgrade-tar kernel=$$$$@ | append-metadata
DEVICE_PACKAGES := nand-utils
DEFAULT := n
endef