Making Picostation m2HP work

[hiren panchasara]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> Don't look at me, I'm just the wifi hacker. :)
haha.
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> 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

I tried setting board = XS2-8 and that did not help so I am trying to
find out what other utilities are doing or how the picostation is
expecting the image header/format to be.
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>> Hiren, we need to figure out which particular board type is applicable
>> for your flash image...

Yes, whenever its convenient. No hurry.

I am just dumping here what I am doing and how I am progressing so
that any outright stupid thing can be detected right away.

Thanks for all the inputs and for also letting me rant here :-)

cheers,
Hiren
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>> -adrian
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>> 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:
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>> >> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
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>> >> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Outback Dingo
>> >> > <outbackdingo at gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
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>> >> >> 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,
>> >>
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>> > I think Adrian would know best, according to his post, his ported
>> > version
>> > of ubnt-mkfwimage should support the  XS2-8
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>> >
>> >> Hiren
>> >>
>> >> /me back to mkfwimage.c
>> >>
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