Making Picostation m2HP work

[Outback Dingo]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Don't look at me, I'm just the wifi hacker. :)
>

didnt you write the build scripts?? :P I think if he can run mkfwimage
manually with the proper -i XS2-8.txt and the
rest needed, he might come put with a properly formatted image that the
Pico will accept and checksum properly


>
> Hiren, we need to figure out which particular board type is applicable
> for your flash image...
>
>
>
> -adrian
>
> On 30 July 2013 14:14, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:57 PM, hiren panchasara <
> > hiren.panchasara at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Outback Dingo <
> outbackdingo at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Maciej Milewski <milu at dat.pl>
> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On 29.07.2013 20:52, hiren panchasara wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Firmware check failed!
> >> >>>
> >> >>> AFAIR I had such info when I tried to flash image from RouterStation
> >> Pro
> >> >>> to Routerstation. I think that it must be something with firmware
> >> header or
> >> >>> firmware format.
> >> >>>
> >> >> I believe its the headers, there is something different about the 2HP
> >> that
> >> >> required padding, im digging through data from 4 years ago to find it
> >> >> from when we deployed a ton of these based on OpenWRT, they are
> >> different
> >> >> then all others, same with the RS/RSPRO,
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Warning, my brain is dealing with 4 year old information again,
> YMMV.....
> >> > but maybe some insight will help... I could be offbase,
> >> > Adrian would know best what his mkfwimage supports.
> >> >
> >> > its possible it was different offsets so that the mkfirmware image had
> >> to be
> >> > modified to build the correct image, the image you are building
> requires
> >> > XS2-8 to be correct, I believe the ap91 image is using XS2 and not
> XS2-8
> >> > ....... Adrian again will have to validate AP91 configuration for
> XS2-8,
> >> or
> >> > create a config that uses it.
> >> I _think_ the difference would be how the board has different things
> >> laid out and we can specify with the hints?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Okay digging back through this a bit in the UBNT SDK, Yes I still have
> >> > one..... it shows
> >> >         -$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/mkfwimage \
> >> >                 -B XS2-8 -v XS2.ar2316.OpenWrt.$(REVISION) \
> >> >                 -k $(BIN_DIR)/openwrt-$(BOARD)-vmlinux.lzma \
> >> >                 -r $(BIN_DIR)/openwrt-$(BOARD)-root.$(1) \
> >> >                 -o $(BIN_DIR)/openwrt-$(BOARD)-ubnt2-pico2-$(1).bin
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > and XS2-8 is for PicosStations built with
> >> > mkfwimage -i XS2-8.txt -v XS2.ar2316.OpenWRT-kamikaze -o
> >> > openwrt-picostation2-squashfs.bin
> >>
> >> Yes, I found the same thing in openwrt build scripts. Now, I need to
> >> map this to how we are generating image in Adrian's scripts.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > which required a file called XS2-8.txt
> >> >
> >> > kernel 0x01 0xA8030000 0x000D0000 0x80041000
> >> > 0x80041000 openwrt-vmlinux.lzma
> >> > rootfs 0x02 0xA8100000 0x006C0000 0x00000000
> >> > 0x00000000 .openwrt-vmlinux.squashfs
> >>
> >> Yes, I found this reference also as you are describing but this is
> >> part of the SDK and I could not find openwrt build scripts using this.
> >> mkfwimage in the SDK takes this file as an argument and does its job
> >> accordingly.
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot for your inputs,
> >>
> >
> > I think Adrian would know best, according to his post, his ported version
> > of ubnt-mkfwimage should support the  XS2-8
> >
> >
> >
> >> Hiren
> >>
> >> /me back to mkfwimage.c
> >>
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