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Qualcomm IPQ40xx SoC-s have a variant of QCA8337N switch built-in. It shares most of the stuff with its external counterpart, however it is modified for the SoC. Namely, it doesn't have second CPU port (Port 6), so it has 6 ports instead of 7. It also has no built-in PHY-s but rather requires external PSGMII based companion PHY-s (QCA8072 and QCA8075) for which it first needs to carry out calibration before using them. PSGMII has a SoC built-in PHY that is used to connect to the PHY-s which unfortunately requires some magic values as the datasheet doesnt document the bits that are being set or the register at all. Since its built-in it is MMIO like other peripherals and doesn't have its own MDIO bus but depends on the SoC provided one. CPU connection is at Port 0 and it uses some kind of a internal connection and no traditional RGMII/SGMII. It also doesn't use in-band tagging like other qca8k switches so a shinfo based tagger is used. This is based on the current OpenWrt qca8k version that has been imported from generic target. Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr>
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.
binutils bzip2 diff find flex gawk gcc-6+ getopt grep install libc-dev libz-dev
make4.1+ perl python3.6+ rsync subversion unzip 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.
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OpenWrt Video: Packages specifically focused on display servers and clients (Xorg and Wayland).
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 oftc.net.
Developer Community
- Bug Reports: Report bugs in OpenWrt
- Dev Mailing List: Send patches
- Dev Chat: Channel
#openwrt-develon oftc.net.
License
OpenWrt is licensed under GPL-2.0