Making Picostation m2HP work

[Outback Dingo]

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:
> >>
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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,
>

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
>