Making Picostation m2HP work

[Outback Dingo]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Are you using the right flags to the _ports_ lzma to create an image
> that uboot can actually decode?
>
>
Curious if theres been any further work on this path ???


>
> -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:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> 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....
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Pozdrawiam,
> >>>> Maciej Milewski
> >>>>
> >>>>
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