The name for the artifact should have been apollo3g.dtb
and not kernel.dtb.
Fixes: 908bdbfce9f9 ("apm821xx: utilize build ARTIFACTs")
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch adds the boot-part feature to the apm82181 sata target.
This makes it possible to configure the boot partition size with
the generic CONFIG_TARGET_KERNEL_PARTSIZE symbol.
Please note: For people using custom images: Just like with
CONFIG_TARGET_ROOTFS_PARTSIZE changing the value can cause
sysupgrade to repartition the device!
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Use the file extension bin for sysupgrade-tar images with
metadata to unify the file extension across the target/tree.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
The exported kernel dtbs can be build as artifacts.
This way, the MyBook Live's DTB is not generated twice.
While at it, give the artifacts their proper name.
For the wndr4700 use the "device-tree" partition name and
for the MyBook Live: "apollo3g.dtb" to match the mbl_boot.scr.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
The MyBook Live DUO used "wd,mybooklive-duo" as the first
compatible string and not "wd_mybooklive-duo".
Fixes: 9b47aa93c7 ("apm821xx: unify My Book Live Single + Duo images")
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch converts the MyBook Live's recovery image to utilize the
multi-image method which integrates the device-tree binary directly
into the image.
The new initramfs can be loaded through the MyBook Live's U-boot
in the following way:
=> setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
=> setenv serverip 192.168.1.2
=> sata init; run addtty; tftp $kernel_addr_r wd_mybooklive-initramfs.bin; bootm
Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete... done
ENET Speed is 1000 Mbps - FULL duplex connection (EMAC0)
Using ppc_4xx_eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.2; our IP address is 192.168.1.1
Filename 'wd_mybooklive-initramfs.bin'.
Load address: 0x1000000
Loading: ################################################ [...]
done
[...]
Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 01000000 ...
Image Name: initramfs
Image Type: PowerPC Linux Multi-File Image (gzip compressed)
[...]
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
In the past, the MX60(W)'s recovery images always had problems
with the size restriction and never really worked without manual
intervention. But starting with 4.19, the MX60(W)'s kernel image
outgrew the allocated space for sysupgrade images as well. Hence
This patch reworks the initramfs, which allows the device to ease
up on the impossible tight kernel size requirements for the
sysupgrade creation and packaging. And as a result, the now
orphaned special ramdisk setup is removed in the process.
This new initramfs can be loaded through the MX60(W) U-boot
in the following way:
=> setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,$baudrate
=> tftpboot $meraki_loadaddr meraki_mx60-initramfs-kernel.bin
[...]
Load address: 0x800000
Loading: ################################################ [...]
done
[...]
=> bootm $fileaddr
\## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
...
Updated Flashing instructions for new installations which integrates
the new recovery method. Users of existing installations that only
want to sysupgrade don't need to update their existing u-boot env.
=> setenv owrt_load1 ubi read \${meraki_loadaddr} kernel
=> setenv owrt_load2 ubi read \${meraki_loadaddr} recovery
=> setenv lede_bootkernel bootm \${meraki_loadaddr_kernel} - \${meraki_loadaddr_fdt}
=> setenv owrt_bootkernel bootm \${meraki_loadaddr}
=> setenv owrt_bootargs setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,\${baudrate} rootfstype=squashfs mtdoops.mtddev=oops
=> setenv owrt_boot run meraki_ubi owrt_bootargs\; run owrt_load1 meraki_checkpart lede_bootkernel\; run owrt_load2 owrt_bootkernel
=> setenv bootcmd run owrt_boot
=> saveenv
For more information and the latest flashing guide:
please visit the OpenWrt Wiki Page for the MR60:
<https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mx60#flashing>
Signed-off-by: Chris Blake <chrisrblake93@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
In a patch for the ath79, Mathias Kresin mentioned that
helper scripts should be in front of the device targets.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch adds support for the Netgear WNDAP620 and WNDAP660,
they are similar devices, but due to the LAN LED configuration,
the switch setup and WIFI configuration each gets a different
device target.
Hardware Highlights WNDAP620:
CPU: AMCC PowerPC APM82181 at 1000 MHz
DRAM: 128 MB, 2 x 64 MiB DDR2 Hynix H5PS5162GF
CPU: AMCC PowerPC APM82181 at 1000 MHz
FLASH: 32 MiB, NAND SLC, Hynix HY27US08561A
Ethernet: RealTek RTL8363SB 2x2-Port Switch PHY - Only 1 GBit Port (POE)
Wifi: Atheros AR9380 minipcie - Dual-Band - 3x3:3
Serial: console port with RJ45 Interface (9600-N-8-1)
LEDS: Power, LAN-Activity, dual color LAN-Linkspeed, 2.4GHz, 5GHz LEDs
Button: Soft Reset Button
Antennae: 3 internal dual-band antennae + 3 x RSMA for external antennaes
Hardware Highlights WNDAP660:
CPU: AMCC PowerPC APM82181 at 1000 MHz + 2 Heatsinks
DRAM: 256 MB, 2 x 128 MiB DDR2
FLASH: 32 MiB, NAND SLC, Hynix HY27US08561A
Ethernet: RealTek RTL8363SB 2x2-Port Switch PHY (POE)
Wifi1: Atheros AR9380 minipcie - Dual-Band - 3x3:3
Wifi2: Atheros AR9380 minipcie - Dual-Band - 3x3:3
Serial: console port with RJ45 Interface (9600-N-8-1)
LEDS: Power, LAN-Activity, 2x dual color LAN-Linkspeed, 2.4GHz, 5GHz LEDs
Button: Soft Reset Button
Antennae: 6 internal dual-band antennae + 3 x RSMA for external antennaes
Flashing requirements:
- needs a tftp server at 192.168.1.10/serverip.
- special 8P8C(aka RJ45)<->D-SUB9 Console Cable
("Cisco Console Cable"). Note: Both WNDAP6x0 have
a MAX3232 transceivers, hence no need for any separate
CMOS/TTL level shifters.
External Antenna:
The antennae mux is controlled by GPIO 11 and GPIO14. Valid Configurations:
= Config# = | = GPIO 11 = | = GPIO 14 = | ===== Description =====
1. | 1 / High | 0 / Low | Use the internal antennae (default)
2. | 0 / Low | 1 / High | Use the external antennae
The external antennaes are only meant for the 2.4 GHz band.
One-way Flashing instructions via u-boot:
0. connect the serial cable to the RJ45 Console Port
Note: This requires a poper RS232 and not a TTL/USB adaptor.
1. power up the AP and interrupt the u-boot process at
'Hit any key to stop autoboot'
2. setup serverip and ipaddr env settings
Enter the following commands into the u-boot shell
# setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
# setenv serverip 192.168.1.10
3. download the factory.img image to the AP
Enter the following commands into the u-boot shell
# tftp ${kernel_addr_r} openwrt-apm821xx-nand-netgear_wndap660-squashfs-factory.img
4. verfiy image integrity
Enter the following commands into the u-boot shell
# crc32 $fileaddr $filesize
If the calculated crc32 checksum does not match, go back to step 3.
5. flash the image
Enter the following commands into the u-boot shell
# nand erase 0x110000 0x1bd0000
# nand write ${kernel_addr_r} 0x110000 ${filesize}
6. setup uboot environment
Enter the following commands into the u-boot shell
# setenv bootargs
# setenv fileaddr
# setenv filesize
# setenv addroot 'setenv bootargs ${bootargs} root=/dev/ubiblock0_0'
# setenv owrt_boot 'nboot ${kernel_addr_r} nand0 0x110000; run addroot; run addtty; bootm ${kernel_addr_r}'
# setenv bootcmd 'run owrt_boot'
# saveenv
7. boot
# run bootcmd
Booting initramfs instructions via u-boot:
Follow steps 0 - 2 from above.
3. boot initramfs
Enter the following commands into the u-boot shell
# tftp ${kernel_addr_r} openwrt-apm821xx-nand-netgear_wndap660-initramfs-kernel.bin
# run addtty
# bootm ${kernel_addr_r}
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Add out of the box support for 802.11r and 802.11w to all targets not
suffering from small flash.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
Mathias did all the heavy lifting on this, but I'm the one who should
get shouted at for committing.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
This remedies an issue with the MBL Duo if both disks are inserted
and contain OpenWrt. kernel and dtb would be loaded from SATA 1:1
while rootfs (/dev/sda2) would be mounted on SATA 0:1.
Such a mix&match would obviously only work if both OpenWrt versions/
builds are identical, and especially fail after sysupgrade upgraded
the system disk on SATA 0:1.
The fallback to SATA 1:1 needs to be kept for MBL Single (only has
SATA 1:1) and MBL Duo with one disk inserted on SATA 1:1. To speed
up booting in those cases, the unneccesarily doubled "sata init"
will only be called once. (In theory it could be omitted completely
since the on-flash boot script already initializes SATA to load the
on-disk boot script.)
Tested on MBL Duo (all possible combination of disks) and MBL Single
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Freddy Leitner <hello@square.wf>
@vahid-dan reported a issue with extracting the rpi images with
Gnome's Archive Manager:
"Ubuntu Archive Manager cannot extract the file and it just
throws a general error message: "An error occurred while
extracting files".
<https://forum.lede-project.org/t/corrupted-pre-built-v18-06-0-rc2-image-for-rpi>
The MBL's rootfs.img.gz image is generated in much the same way.
Hence this patch preemptively splits the rootfs.img.gz image into
a sysupgrade and a factory image.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch adds support for squashfs as the root filesystem.
advantages:
- migrate from a existing -ext4 installation and back
with the sysupgrade utility
- existing partition layout will not be lost during switch
- slightly smaller image size as compared to the -ext4 image.
disadvantages:
- needs f2fs + tools. This is because fstools rootdisk.c decides based
on the partition size (currently root partitions > 100 MiB) f2fs is
used as the rootfs_data filesystem.
- rootfs_data is placed into the rootfs partition after the squashfs.
This makes it difficult for tools that expect a /dev/sda${X} device.
It also makes it difficult for data recovery tools as they might not
expect to find a embedded partition or will be slightly confused.
... or will not support f2fs.
For people with existing build configurations: make sure to include mkf2fs
and f2fsck packages into the image. Otherwise the new -squashfs image will
only boot from the ram-overlay.
Note:
All overlay data (configurations/all installed packages/...) will be
placed in inside the rootfs partition (i.e. /dev/sda2) just after the
squashfs image.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
By takimata:
"Come to think of it, an MBL Single board boots up just fine on an
MBL Duo image, and the MBL Single board identifies completely
identical to the MBL Duo
(Board: Apollo-3G - APM82181 Board, 2*SATA, 1*USB).
I wonder if there is any downside to just using the MBL Duo firmware
on a MBL Single. I wonder if the two firmwares could even be unified."
<https://forum.lede-project.org/t/wd-mybook-live-duo-two-disks/16195/9>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
The swconfig package is part of the DEFAULT_PACKAGES list in
the apm821xx's nand subtarget. It's enabled by default because
the MX60(W) and WNDR4700 need it for their initramfs. However
the package is not necessary for the MR24's sysupgrade image, as
the MR24 does not have a switch.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Merge the two existing functions and use a parameter for the type
header field.
It updates the syntax of the former mpc85xx fake ramdisk header
command to be compatible with mkimage from u-boot 2018.03 and fixes the
build error spotted by the build bot.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
This patch cleans and reworks the WNDR4700 dts to increase the
now combined dtb+kernel partition to 3.5 MiB. This has become
necessary due to the switch to GCC 7.3 and the ever increasing
kernel binary size.
The dtb+kernel partition was combined in order to finally
fix the problem with out-of-sync device-trees. From now
on, the kernel and device-tree will always be updated together.
Upgrade Note:
Existing installations will have to use the TFTP firmware
recovery option in order to install the update. Affected users
are advised to make a backup of their existing configuration
prior to running sysupgrade:
<https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/generic.backup#backup_openwrt_configuration>
Due to the repartitioning of the NAND, the generated backup
should be placed on either the internal HDD, an attached
USB-Stick or on another PC (externally).
To manually trigger the firmware recovery, the reset button has
to be pressed (and hold) during boot. U-boot will enter the "Upgrade
Mode" and starts a tftpserver listening on 192.168.1.1 for a
tftp client from one of the four LAN/Ethernet ports to connect and
upload the new system: (enable tftp binary mode!).
openwrt-apm821xx-nand-netgear_wndr4700-squashfs-factory.img
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
The recent change to switch to gcc 7.3 broke the image
generation code, as the kernel would no longer fit into
KERNEL_SIZE.
This patch fixes the issue by reworking the initramfs
creation and packaging, which will get rid of the
KERNEL_SIZE check in the process.
This new initramfs can be loaded through the MR24 U-boot
in the following way:
=> setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
=> setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,$baudrate
=> tftpboot c00000 192.168.1.2:meraki_mr24-initramfs-kernel.bin
[...]
Load address: 0xc00000
Loading: ################################################ [...]
done
Bytes transferred = 5952544 (5ad420 hex)
=> bootm $fileaddr
\## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00c00000 ...
...
For more information and the latest flashing guide:
please visit the OpenWrt Wiki Page for the MR24:
<https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mr24#flashing>
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Blake <chrisrblake93@gmail.com>
This patch converts all apm821xx devices to the device-tree
board-detection method. All instances of the legacy
boardnames (mbl,mr24,...) are converted to "vendor,device"
identifier.
The custom board-detection code in apm821xx.sh is removed as
it no longer serves any purpose.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch enables metadata-supported image verification
for all apm821xx supported devices. Since this method comes
with a built-in image verification tool (fwtool), the previous
image checks can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Currently, the device name handle does not include the
manufacturer. This can make it hard do differentiate
between products from different vendors that have the
same product name. As the handle is used to derive
the image name.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch rename all the DT source files in order to
match upstream's "manufacturer-device.dts" format.
Please note that the DEVICE_DTB isn't changed. This is
because the u-boot of the MyBook Live defines the
fdt_file variable to be "apollo3g/apollo3g.dtb".
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch sets the BOARD_NAME variable on each affected
apm821xx device. The existing DEVICE_PROFILE and
DEVICE_NAME assignments are deprecated as they no longer
serve any purpose.
The BOARD_NAME variable is used by the sysupgrade-tar
method to specifiy a directory overwrite for the
sysupgrade-$dir directory in the generated tar file.
Keeping the original boardname in this context will be
necessary for targets that utilize the sysupgrade-tar
method. Otherwise, sysupgrade on an previous installation
will not recognize the newly generated images.
This step is necessary since an upcoming patch realigns
the existing shortname for a device with a proper
"manufacturer_device" identifier.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
The commit 87b668765e
("image: when using the new image build code, gzip ext4 images by default")
forced that all targets that select the ext4 as the root filesystem
to always compress the generated rootfs. This is fine, but this method
doesn't not allow to append the metadata on a per-target base.
Therefore this patch changes the rootfs image production rule to generate
the gzip step manually. This way the metadata can be appended at a later
date.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Both of these boards share the same DTS, and hardware. The only
difference would be the PCI-E slot, and ath9k card found on the MX60W.
Due to the similarities, it would be more efficient to merge these
profiles.
Signed-off-by: Chris Blake <chrisrblake93@gmail.com>
This moves core router packages to the NAND target, to ensure they are
applied to all images. This change is being done due to an issue found
when flashing the MX60W image, which came without these when built as a
multi image.
Signed-off-by: Chris Blake <chrisrblake93@gmail.com>
This patch moves the fakeroot code required by some devices to
`image-commands.mk`.
Create the fakeroot on the fly by using the undocumented -s (skip copy)
parameter of mkimage.
Signed-off-by: Joseph C. Lehner <joseph.c.lehner@gmail.com>
[remove unused NETGEAR_KERNEL_MAGIC, remove workarounds to have a dummy
rootfs for mkimage]
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
This reduces the amount of hacks in the makefile code.
Remove the apm821xx code to do the same - it was broken and left both
compressed and uncompressed images in $(BIN_DIR)
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Currently, the device-tree partition is marked as read-only.
Hence, userspace tools like mtd can't write into the partition.
This however will be necessary in case the DTB needs to be
updated.
This patch also adds the kernel.dtb image, so the compiled
DTB is exported as a file and available in the binary
directory along the firmware images.
Note: the u-boot does expects the dtb to be a uimage.
To update the dtb manually:
1. copy the generated dtb to the router.
2. mtd erase /dev/mtd2
3. mtd write wndr4700.dtb /dev/mtd2
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch adds support for the Cisco Meraki MX60/MX60W Security
Appliance. Flashing information can be found at
https://github.com/riptidewave93/LEDE-MX60
Specs are as follows:
AppliedMicro APM82181 SoC at 800MHz
1GiB NAND - Samsung K9K8G08U0D
512MB DDR RAM - 4x Nanya NT5TU128M8GE-AC
Atheros AR8327-BL1A Gigabit Ethernet Switch
1x USB 2.0 Port
More info can be found at https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mx60
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Blake <chrisrblake93@gmail.com>
This makes init.d script handle existing UCI entries using the new
trigger. It also switches all targets to use its package.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
The patch "images: bump default rootfs size to 256 MB"
a1f83bad60 caused a crash
during boot for the recovery images. This is because
both variants of the MyBook Live only have 256MB of RAM
and for the recovery option, the ext4 rootfs was simply
stored in the RAMDISK.
This patch replaces recovery image for the MBL with an
initramfs kernel.
In order to boot the initramfs (for recovery or development):
0. copy the initramfs and device tree into tftp's server directory
# cp *-initramfs-kernel.bin to /tftp-server/mbl.bin
# cp *-ext4-kernel.dtb to /tftp-server/fdt.bin
1. Connect the MyBook Live (Duo) serial port.
(Warning! Use a 3.3v level shifter).
2. Hit Enter during u-boot and insert these three lines:
# setenv serverip 192.168.1.254; setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1;
# tftp ${kernel_addr_r} mbl.bin; tftp ${fdt_addr_r} fdt.bin
# run addtty addmisc; bootm ${kernel_addr_r} - ${fdt_addr_r}
Where 192.168.1.254 is your TFTP server.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Russell Senior reported an issue with the MR24 initramfs kernels:
> ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00c10000 ...
> Image Name: POWERPC LEDE Linux-4.4.19
> Created: 2016-08-31 11:57:05 UTC
> Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
> Data Size: 2155723 Bytes = 2.1 MiB
> Load Address: 00000000
> Entry Point: 00000000
> Verifying Checksum ... OK
>Wrong Ramdisk Image Format
>Ramdisk image is corrupt or invalid
For the MR24, the kernel is uploaded to 0x10000. The ramdisk starts
at 0x200000. This leaves the kernel with just 0x1f0000 bytes = 1984kb.
This patch adds a size check so the image creation script will abort
instead of producing a unbootable initramfs image. A separate patch
"apm821xx: Fix initramfs image for the Meraki MR24" which fixed the
reported issue was submitted earlier.
Cc: Russell Senior <russell@personaltelco.net>
Cc: Chris Blake <chrisrblake93@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
When gzip is used, our kernel is too large and this causes the ramdisk
to be at the wrong offset. Fix by moving to lzma.
Signed-off-by: Chris Blake <chrisrblake93@gmail.com>
Change the image build code to generate the DTB files as part of the kernel
build phase in order to fix the image build in the ImageBuilder environment.
Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
Now that the "sysupgrade-nand" step is used by non-NAND targets as well,
rename it to "sysupgrade-tar" to make it more generic.
Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
The MR24's u-boot takes it sweet time decompressing the
LZMA-packed initramfs image. A user reported that
compared to the old gzip method in v2: it "takes a ton
longer to decompress like 4\x the old boot time for
decompression".
This patch also fixes a issue with the WNDR4700's initramfs
image getting to big and causing the following u-boot crash
during the decompression:
"Uncompressing Multi-File Image ... Error: inflate() returned -5
out-of-mem or overwrite error - must RESET board to recover"
This patch fixes both issues by reverting the MR24's initramfs
compression method back to gzip. And choosing to compress the
initramfs within the initramfs image as LZMA by default.
Cc: chrisrblake93@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch adds support for Netgear Centria N900 WNDR4700/WNDR4720
hardware highlights:
CPU: AMCC PowerPC APM82181 Rev. E at 1000 MHz (PLB=166, OPB=83, EBC=83 MHz)
Security support, Boot ROM Location NAND wo/ECC 2k page (8 bits)
32 kB I-Cache 32 kB D-Cache, 256 kB L2-Cache, 32 kB OnChip Memory
Board: AMCC APM82181 Evaluation Board, PCIE0/SATA1, 1*USB OTG
DRAM: 256 MB (ECC not enabled, 500 Mb/s, 32-bit, CL3)
NAND: 128 MiB (SLC, erase size: 128 KiB, page size: 2048, OOB size: 64)
ETH: Atheros AR8327N Gigabit Switch (4 x LAN, 1 x WAN)
USB: 2 x 3.0 (Renesas uPD720202K8-711-BAA-A, firmware not included)
SATA: 1 x SATA-II 3.5" Hard Drive Bay for HDDs (DesignWare SATA).
WLAN1: Atheros AR9380 5GHz 802.11an 3:3x3
WLAN2: Atheros AR9581 2.4GHz 802.11bgn 3:3x3
SDCARD: GL827L SD/MMC/MS Flash Card Reader (on internal dwc2 USB 2.0 host)
I2C: GMT G781 (i2c-0 @ 0x4d - lm90 compatible temperature sensor)
TC654 (i2c-0 @ 0x1b - Dual PWM fan Speed controller)
WARNING: The serial port needs a TTL/RS-232 v3.3 level converter!
INFO: Since this device only has a NAND chip. I opted for going with
root.squashfs in a UBI volume. There's no squashfs/jffs2 image.
This target produces three images.
a. netgear factory image
This image can be used to flash the Netgear WNDR4700 via the
firmware recovery mechanism and the web admin site.
The bootloader can be instructed to do a firmware recovery via the
# fw_recovery
command. It will start a tftp server and listen on 192.168.1.1
(the ipaddr variable in u-boot) for incoming, binary tftp clients.
The firmware recovery mechanism is also started if any of the flash
content which contains the kernel, device-tree definitions or the
(fake)rootfs fails to verify or load.
b. sysupgrade.tar image for sysupgrade
An sysupgrade will replace the entire current LEDE installation
with a newer version. This does include the kernel and the ubi rootfs
partition. The configuration can be carried over automatically as well
if desired.
simply copy the sysupgrade.tar to a the WNDR4700 running LEDE and run:
root@lede:~# sysupgrade sysupgrade.tar
and let it reboot.
Note: The devicetree flash area is NOT updated. Until the devicetree
definition is stable, this can lead to all sorts of hardware
detection problems! So make sure, if you experience issues: try
the fw_recovery. If you are unsure whenever this affects you:
test if you can reproduce your issue with the initramfs method.
As it will always have up-to-date device-tree definitions.
c. initramfs image for TFTP (for development and testing)
To use the initramfs method, follow the following steps:
1) Move the "lede-apm821xx-netgear-WNDR4700-initramfs-kernel.bin"
file to to the root directory of your TFTP server.
2) rename it to wndr4700.bin
3) On the WNDR4700 - Hit Enter during u-boot and insert:
# tftp 400000 wndr4700.bin; run addtty; bootm 400000 -
This will boot the LEDE image.
Note: The default tftp server is 192.168.1.7, if you want to change it:
# setenv serverip 192.168.8.7;
Note2: The default address for the WNDR4700 is 192.168.1.1:
# setenv ipaddr 192.168.8.8;
Note: Connect you tftp server on the last LAN port (not the WAN)
Note: The firmware for the USB 3.0 Host chip is not included anymore.
Therefore the two USB 3.0 ports will not work without the
uPD7070x-firmware package installed.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Christian Lamparter