openwrt/target/linux/ipq40xx/image
Szabolcs Hubai 81d694e30b ipq40xx: use zImage for GL.iNet GL-B1300, GL-S1300 to shrink below 4096k
In the "ipq40xx: switch to Kernel 5.10" discussion at GitHub,
Adrian noted [0] that these GL.iNet Conexa series devices,
GL-B1300 and GL-S1300 failed their image generation [1] as their gzipped
uImage kernel went above 4096k.

While notifying the vendor about this problem [2], I tested all U-Boot
releases from GL.iNet:
- they really fail to boot kernel above 4096k
- they don't support lzma: "Unimplemented compression type 3"
- but they boot zImage

Using zImage (xz compression) the kernel is 2909k which is
more than a megabyte away from the KERNEL_SIZE := 4096k limit.

The gzip compressed version would be 4116k.

[0]: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/4620#issuecomment-932765776
[1]: commit 7b1fa276f5 ("ipq40xx: add testing support for kernel 5.10")
[2]: https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/ipq40xx-kernel-size-and-u-boot-v5-10-is-too-big-for-4-mb/17619

Signed-off-by: Szabolcs Hubai <szab.hu@gmail.com>
2021-10-10 16:47:41 +02:00
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generic.mk ipq40xx: use zImage for GL.iNet GL-B1300, GL-S1300 to shrink below 4096k 2021-10-10 16:47:41 +02:00
Makefile ipq40xx: work-around borked QCA SDK bootloader 2021-03-06 19:05:53 +00:00
mikrotik.mk treewide: call check-size before append-metadata 2021-07-10 19:40:10 +02:00