Making Picostation m2HP work

[Adrian Chadd]

Are you using the right flags to the _ports_ lzma to create an image
that uboot can actually decode?



-adrian

On 31 July 2013 14:23, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
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>>>> 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,
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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
>
> So I looked at this file. (I found similar references of using this
> file too). So here is what it says:
>
> name   index baseaddr   size       memaddr    entryaddr file
>
> kernel 0x01 0xA8030000 0x000D0000 0x80041000 0x80041000 openwrt-vmlinux.lzma
> rootfs 0x02 0xA8100000 0x006C0000 0x00000000 0x00000000 openwrt-vmlinux.squashfs
>
> In the image I am generating (with adrian's scripts), the baseaddr for
> kernel is as mentioned above 0xA8030000. But the baseaddr for rootfs
> is calculated as:
> rootfs->partition_baseaddr = kernel->partition_baseaddr +
> kernel->partition_length;
>
> which is not 0xA8100000. but a little higher than that. So I thought
> kernel is a bit too big. So I trimmed down the kernel a bit and hard
> coded the value like:
> rootfs->partition_baseaddr = 0xA8100000;
>
> But no success. And the kernel I am using is lzma'ed. I am not sure if
> the rootfs has to be squashfs'ed?
>
> cheers,
> Hiren
>
> Journey continues....
>
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>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Pozdrawiam,
>>>> Maciej Milewski
>>>>
>>>>
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