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1499 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Matthias Schiffer
258dc0d0fd
tools: add zstd
Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
2020-05-31 11:03:30 +02:00
DENG Qingfang
48e3449945 ccache: update to 3.7.9
Update ccache to 3.7.9

Release notes:
https://ccache.dev/releasenotes.html#_ccache_3_7_9

Signed-off-by: DENG Qingfang <dengqf6@mail2.sysu.edu.cn>
2020-05-28 21:22:18 +02:00
Hauke Mehrtens
1bbc1aa884 squashfs: Fix compile with GCC 10
Fixes the following build error with GCC 10:
	/usr/bin/ld: read_fs.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `swap'; mksquashfs.o:(.bss+0x1b2a88): first defined here
And a compile warning.

Fixes: FS#3104, FS#3119
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
2020-05-24 14:38:40 +02:00
Karel Kočí
3c1d1d4332 tools: add autoconf-archive
Some autotools based build systems are using autoconf-archive scripts
and are expecting them to almost always be available. This is not
required for regular releases as tar balls generated for releases
commonly have existing configure script. This is rather intended to be
used with autotools.mk's autoreconf and in cases it is not always
possible to get release tar ball.

Including this adds little to no overhead in terms of build time as
those are just m4 scripts copied to an appropriate location.

Signed-off-by: Karel Kočí <karel.koci@nic.cz>
[fixed From: to match SoB]
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
2020-05-20 15:37:16 +02:00
Roger Pueyo Centelles
0486641849 firmware-utils: mkfwimage: add support for Ubiquiti XC devices
This commit adds support for Ubiquiti devices based on the XC board
type, such as the PowerBeam 5AC 500. The factory binary structure is
the same as the WA type.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pueyo Centelles <roger.pueyo@guifi.net>
2020-05-17 21:03:19 +02:00
Lucian Cristian
042917f1c4 tools/mkimage: update to 2020.04
also change the download source to https and add a mirror
drop merged patches

Signed-off-by: Lucian Cristian <lucian.cristian@gmail.com>
[Add extra changes to compile on FreeBSD, merge two patches]
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
2020-04-26 21:20:47 +02:00
Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
1e3d3d2bd5 tools/e2fsprogs: fix build under macos
macos doesn't define a loff_t type, the native off_t type being 64bit
anyway.

Persuade e2fsprogs to accept off_t instead on macos

Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
2020-04-10 11:52:00 +01:00
Daniel Engberg
5d7812495b tools/mm-macros: Update to 1.0.0
Update mm-macros to 1.0.0

Signed-off-by: Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net>
2020-04-09 22:09:21 +02:00
Daniel Engberg
d158b26c1e tools/xz: Update to 5.2.5
Update xz to 5.2.5
Disable NLS support to be consistent with other tools such as bison, e2fsprogs
and sed.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net>
2020-04-09 22:09:13 +02:00
Daniel Engberg
169afa9fe4 tools/mtools: Update to 4.0.24
Update mtools to 4.0.24

Signed-off-by: Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net>
2020-04-09 22:09:04 +02:00
Daniel Engberg
71ea940a84 tools/findutils: Update to 4.7.0
Update findutils to 4.7.0
Remove patches
Enable pthreads
Disable NLS support to be consistent with other tools such as bison, e2fsprogs
and sed.
Disable selinux support to be consistent with other tools such as sed and tar
Disable rpath as we don't need hardcoded paths

Signed-off-by: Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net>
2020-04-09 22:08:38 +02:00
Daniel Engberg
c9daacbf18 tools/e2fsprogs: Update to 1.45.6
Update e2fsprogs to 1.45.6

Signed-off-by: Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net>
2020-04-09 22:08:29 +02:00
Rosen Penev
8af80e79bd tools/cmake: update to 3.17.0
Remove libressl patches; they are no longer needed as LibreSSl adde
support

Replace qt tests patch with one that disables all of them.

Refresh remaining one.

Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
2020-04-06 20:30:18 +02:00
李国
1963bbaa8f firmware-utils: ptgen: add GPT support
Add GPT support to ptgen, so we can generate EFI bootable images.

Introduced two options:
    -g        generate GPT partition table
    -G GUID   use GUID for disk and increase last bit for all partitions

We drop The alternate partition table to reduce size, This may cause
problems when generate vmdk images or vdi images. We have to pad enough
sectors when generate these images.

Signed-off-by: 李国 <uxgood.org@gmail.com>
[fixed compilation on macOS]
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
2020-03-31 16:20:47 +02:00
Georgi Vlaev
ff75bbc423 tplink-safeloader: update soft_ver for TP-Link Archer C6 v2 (EU)
The last couple of TP-Link firmware releases for Archer C6 v2 (EU)
have switched to version 1.2.x. Bump the soft_ver to "1.2.1" to
allow firmware updates from the vendor web interface.

TP-Link vendor firmware releases supported by this change:
* Archer C6(EU)_V2_200110: soft_ver:1.2.1 Build 20200110 rel.60119
* Archer C6(EU)_V2_191014: soft_ver:1.2.0 Build 20191014 rel.33289

Signed-off-by: Georgi Vlaev <georgi.vlaev@gmail.com>
2020-03-30 01:46:50 +02:00
Robert Marko
be4ed1db18
tools: squashfskit4: fix build with GCC10
In order to build squashfskit with GCC10, this backport from upstream is needed.

Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr>
[increase PKG_RELEASE]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Couzens <lynxis@fe80.eu>
2020-03-22 02:06:16 +01:00
Alexander Couzens
1f4020a293 squashfskit4/Makefile: introduce PKG_RELEASE=1
When adding patches, the PKG_RELEASE should be increased.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Couzens <lynxis@fe80.eu>
2020-03-22 02:05:41 +01:00
Adrian Schmutzler
646d95c374 ath79: add support for TP-Link Archer C60 v3
TP-Link Archer C60 v3 is a dual-band AC1350 router,
based on Qualcomm/Atheros QCA9561 + QCA9886.

It seems to be identical to the v2 revision, except that
it lacks a WPS LED and has different GPIO for amber WAN LED.

Specification:

- 775/650/258 MHz (CPU/DDR/AHB)
- 64 MB of RAM (DDR2)
- 8 MB of FLASH (SPI NOR)
- 3T3R 2.4 GHz
- 2T2R 5 GHz
- 5x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- 6x LED, 2x button
- UART header on PCB

Flash instruction (WebUI):
Download *-factory.bin image and upload it via the firmwary upgrade
function of the stock firmware WebUI.

Flash instruction (TFTP):
1. Set PC to fixed IP address 192.168.0.66
2. Download *-factory.bin image and rename it to tp_recovery.bin
3. Start a tftp server with the file tp_recovery.bin in its root
   directory
4. Turn off the router
5. Press and hold reset button
6. Turn on router with the reset button pressed and wait ~15 seconds
7. Release the reset button and after a short time the firmware should
   be transferred from the tftp server
8. Wait ~30 second to complete recovery

While TFTP works for OpenWrt images, my device didn't accept the
only available official firmware "Archer C60(EU)_V3.0_190115.bin".

In contrast to earlier revisions (v2), the v3 contains the (same)
MAC address twice, once in 0x1fa08 and again in 0x1fb08.
While the partition-table on the device refers to the latter, the
firmware image contains a different partition-table for that region:

name           device            firmware
factory-boot   0x00000-0x1fb00   0x00000-0x1fa00
default-mac    0x1fb00-0x1fd00   0x1fa00-0x1fc00
pin            0x1fd00-0x1fe00   0x1fc00-0x1fd00
product-info   0x1fe00-0x1ff00   0x1fd00-0x1ff00
device-id      0x1ff00-0x20000   0x1ff00-0x20000

While the MAC address is present twice, other data like the PIN isn't,
so with the partitioning from the firmware image the PIN on the device
would actually be outside of its partition.
Consequently, the patch uses the MAC location from the device (which
is the same as for the v2).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
2020-03-18 13:49:06 +01:00
Jo-Philipp Wich
6de7406d54 pkgconf: always retain -I and -L flags
The pkgconf fork filters -I and -L flag values from .pc files which match
pkgconf's builtin system directory value.

During configure, pkgconf derives the default system include and library
search path values from exec_prefix, which is set to staging_dir/host in
the host tool build phase.

Due to that, pkgconf will drop all -I and -L flags pointing to
staging_dir/host/include or staging_dir/host/lib, unless invoked with
--keep-system-cflags and --keep-system-libs respectively, breaking our
kernel libelf discovery / stack validation workarounds.

In order to inhibit the filtering, add --keep-system-cflags and
--keep-system-libs to our pkg-config shell wrapper.

Fixes: GH#2832
Fixes: 867298cf47 ("tools/pkg-config: Replace with pkgconf")
Ref: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2020-March/022182.html
Ref: https://git.openwrt.org/fe43969336201f2cc7d103b68fd6e65989bee184
Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
Acked-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
2020-03-15 20:32:10 +01:00
Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
0a06fcf608 build: fix kernel 5.4 on macos
As part of the kernel build process there are utilities built to run on
the host system that expect linux kernel headers to be available.
Unfortunately macos/darwin doesn't have these headers.

vdso2c requires types.h so provide a minimal stub to satisfy it.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
2020-03-14 13:20:06 +00:00
Yufei Miao
763de7bd51 tools/cmake: Update to 3.16.5
Update cmake to 3.16.5

Signed-off-by: Yufei Miao <myf@myf.cloud>
2020-03-12 21:31:17 +01:00
Michael T Farnworth
b468353a37 mkrasimage: fix segmentation fault
Code was attempting to determine the size of the file
before it was actually known and allocating insufficient
memory space.  Images above a certain size caused a
segmentation fault.  Moving the calloc() ensured ensured
that large images didn't result in a buffer overflow on
memcpy().

Signed-off-by: Michael T Farnworth <michael@turf.org>
[fixed name in From to match one in SoB]
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
2020-03-01 21:36:00 +01:00
Rosen Penev
c60be19693 tools/pkgconf: Run pkg-config wrapper through shellcheck
Mainly quoting fixes.

Separated parameters by \ for easier readability.

Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
2020-03-01 21:36:00 +01:00
Rosen Penev
867298cf47 tools/pkg-config: Replace with pkgconf
pkgconf is a newer, actively maintained implementation of pkg-config that
supports more aspects of the pkg-config file specification and provides a
library interface that applications can use to incorporate intelligent
handling of pkg-config files into themselves (such as build file
generators, IDEs, and compilers). Through its pkg-config compatibility
interface (activated when it is run as "pkg-config"), it also can
completely replace the original implementation.

It is also lighterweight and does not require glib2, as pkg-config does.

On other distros, pkgconf is symlinked to pkg-config. For simplicity here,
it is renamed to pkg-config.real, as in the original package.

Initial results have been positive. As before, pkgconf works as long as
the pkg-config files point to the proper paths.

Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
[backported upstream fix for Meson]
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
2020-03-01 21:36:00 +01:00
Jeffery To
4a308bad82 tools: Fix "lib" symlink created inside $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/lib
Currently, if "make tools/install" is called after tools have already
been installed, a symbolic link named "lib" will be created inside
$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/lib, pointing to "lib" (i.e. itself).

During tools/prepare, a "lib64" symlink is created inside
$(STAGING_DIR_HOST) that points to "lib" (also inside
$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)).

If tools/prepare is called and the "lib64" symlink already exists, then
ln will treat it as a directory and instead create a symlink named "lib"
inside of that directory.

This adds the -n option for ln so that $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/lib64 is
always treated as a normal file (the link name), not as a directory.

Signed-off-by: Jeffery To <jeffery.to@gmail.com>
2020-03-01 21:35:59 +01:00
Daniel Engberg
b0a3f1e8f4 tools/bison: Update to 3.5.1
Update bison to 3.5.1
Use POSIX threads as the previous option is no longer valid
Disable NLS support to be consistent with other tools such as e2fsprogs and sed

Signed-off-by: Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net>
2020-02-19 22:02:47 +01:00
Daniel Engberg
cf443e84f5 tools/e2fsprogs: Update to 1.45.5
Update e2fsprogs to 1.45.5
Enable pthreads support

Signed-off-by: Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net>
2020-02-18 21:48:49 +01:00
Daniel Engberg
477d1c540e tools/gmp: Remove obsolete options
Remove mpbsd argument

Signed-off-by: Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net>
2020-02-18 21:39:23 +01:00
Daniel Engberg
4b591c5e6b tools/sed: Update to 4.8
Update sed to 4.8
Use POSIX threads
Disable i18n and selinux support

Signed-off-by: Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net>
2020-02-18 21:39:14 +01:00
Daniel Engberg
82211e5f49 tools/patchelf: Update to 0.10
Update patchelf to 0.10

Signed-off-by: Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net>
2020-02-18 21:39:03 +01:00
Daniel Engberg
0ffb7b02ba tools/libressl: Update to 3.0.2
Update libressl to 3.0.2 and remove 010-avoid-glibc.patch as fix is added by upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net>
2020-02-18 21:38:51 +01:00
Dan Haab
9aa6569aa6 firmware-utils: add lxlfw tool for generating Luxul firmwares
It's a simple tool prepending image with a Luxul header.

Signed-off-by: Dan Haab <dan.haab@legrand.com>
2020-02-07 09:31:22 +01:00
Andreas Böhler
6d6f36ae78 ramips: add support for TP-Link RE200 v2
TP-Link RE200 v2 is a wireless range extender with Ethernet and 2.4G and 5G
WiFi with internal antennas. It's based on MediaTek MT7628AN+MT7610EN.

Specifications
--------------

- MediaTek MT7628AN (580 Mhz)
- 64 MB of RAM
- 8 MB of FLASH
- 2T2R 2.4 GHz and 1T1R 5 GHz
- 1x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- UART header on PCB (57600 8n1)
- 8x LED (GPIO-controlled), 2x button

There are 2.4G and 5G LEDs in red and green which are controlled
separately.

MAC addresses
-------------

The MAC address assignment matches stock firmware, i.e.:
LAN : *:0D
2.4G: *:0E
5G  : *:0F

Installation
------------

Web Interface
-------------

It is possible to upgrade to OpenWrt via the web interface. Simply flash
the -factory.bin from OEM. In contrast to a stock firmware, this will not
overwrite U-Boot.

Serial console
--------------

Opening the case is quite hard, since it is welded together. Rename the
OpenWrt factory image to "test.bin", then plug in the device and quickly
press "2" to enter flash mode (no line feed). Follow the prompts until
OpenWrt is installed.

Unfortunately, this devices does not offer a recovery mode or a tftp
installation method. If the web interface upgrade fails, you have to open
your device and attach serial console.

Additonal notes
---------------

It is possible to flash back to stock by using tplink-safeloader to create
a sysupgrade image based on a stock update. After the first boot, it is
necessary upgrade to another stock image, otherwise subsequent boots
fail with LZMA ERROR 1 and you have to attach serial to recover the device.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Böhler <dev@aboehler.at>
[remove DEVICE_VARS change]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
2020-02-01 19:41:51 +01:00
Hannu Nyman
b77ce0c720 tools/gmp: update to 6.2.0
Update GNU gmp to version 6.2.0

Release notes:  https://gmplib.org/gmp6.2.html

Signed-off-by: Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman@iki.fi>
2020-01-25 22:07:32 +01:00
Adrian Schmutzler
b2102be8a5 ar71xx: use dynamic partitioning for TP-Link TL-WA850RE v2
This moves the TP-Link TL-WA850RE v2 to dynamic partitioning and
will allow to use this for ath79 as well.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
2020-01-22 23:52:51 +01:00
Hannu Nyman
96e9d48664 tools/bison: update to 3.5
Update bison to 3.5

Release notes:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-12/msg00002.html

Note for future: release notes mention that YYPRINT macro is
declared deprecated, but apparently still works for now. I found
one possible use of that in scripts/config/zconf.tab.c_shipped
That might be modernized at some point, but as the file is synced
with the one from upstream Linux, it might get fixed there.

Signed-off-by: Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman@iki.fi>
2020-01-21 18:43:58 +01:00
Anderson Vulczak
7a8bfbf0ff tools: tplink-safeloader: update soft_ver for TP-Link Archer C6 v2 (EU)
This patch updates "soft_ver" for TP-Link Archer C6 v2 (EU).

It makes possible to upload OpenWrt on lastest vendor's firmware
as the web-based updater checks for major.minor version during upload.

Due to that on next major/minor version update TP-Link will stop
us from using the web-based firmware update tool, so it will
require a new patch on soft_ver to match major and minor version.
Up to today's latest stock firmware the patch (major.minor.patch)
version does not matters, that allows downgrade from 1.1.4 to 1.1.1
but do not allow downgrade from 1.1.X to 1.0.X.

Signed-off-by: Anderson Vulczak <andi@andi.com.br>
2020-01-19 00:19:39 +01:00
Steffen Förster
93a4c8afbf ramips: add support for TP-Link RE305 v1
Specification:

SoC: MediaTek MT7628AN
RAM: 64MiB
Flash: 8MiB
Wifi:
  - 2.4GHz: MT7628AN
  - 5GHz: MT7612EN
LAN: 1x 10/100 Mbps

Flash instructions:
Flash factory image through stock firmware WEB UI.
Back to stock is possible by using TFTP and stripping down the Firmware
provided by TP-Link to a initramfs.

The flash space between 0x650000 and 0x7f0000
is blank in the stock firmware so I left it out as well.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Förster <nemesis@chemnitz.freifunk.net>
2020-01-18 19:39:05 +01:00
Hannu Nyman
343f27f8b0 tools/cmake: update to 3.16.2
Update cmake to 3.16.2 and refresh patches.

Release notes:
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16/release/3.16.html

Signed-off-by: Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman@iki.fi>
2020-01-18 14:18:22 +01:00
DENG Qingfang
5355baf21f ccache: update to 3.7.7
Update ccache to 3.7.7

Release notes:
https://ccache.dev/releasenotes.html#_ccache_3_7_7

Signed-off-by: DENG Qingfang <dengqf6@mail2.sysu.edu.cn>
2020-01-16 18:59:42 +01:00
Andrea Dalla Costa
3c77e4ae4d wrt350nv2-builder: Fix memory leak
Add missing call to `free` for variable `buffer` in function
`create_bin_file`.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Dalla Costa <andrea@dallacosta.me>
2020-01-14 17:48:50 +01:00
Andrea Dalla Costa
8057970d2a firmware-utils/mktitanimg: fix possible resource leak
Add missing call to `fclose` for file pointer `nsp_image`.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Dalla Costa <andrea@dallacosta.me>
2020-01-14 17:48:50 +01:00
Andrea Dalla Costa
1775f690d5 firmware-utils/mksenaofw: fix possible memory leak
Add missing calls to `free` for variable `pmodel`.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Dalla Costa <andrea@dallacosta.me>
2020-01-14 17:48:50 +01:00
Andrea Dalla Costa
b886d3c8f3 firmware-utils/mkfwimage: fix possible memory and resource leak
Add missing calls to `free` for variable `mem`.
Add missing call to `fclose` for variable `f`.

The same changes were made in both `mkfwimage.c` and `mkfwimage2.c`.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Dalla Costa <andrea@dallacosta.me>
2020-01-14 17:48:50 +01:00
Andrea Dalla Costa
8e3b3152e5 firmware-utils/mkchkimg: fix possible resource leaks
Add missing `fclose` calls for file pointers `kern_fp`, `fs_fp`
and `out_fp`.
Not closing files could lead to resource leaks.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Dalla Costa <andrea@dallacosta.me>
2020-01-14 17:48:50 +01:00
Andrea Dalla Costa
0ae0f48cec firmware-utils: fix possible memory leak and resource leak
Add missing calls to `free` for variable `buffer`.
This could lead to a memory leak.

Add missing call to `close` for file pointer `fdin`.
This could lead to a resource leak.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Dalla Costa <andrea@dallacosta.me>
2020-01-14 17:48:50 +01:00
Andrea Dalla Costa
402b362db4 firmware-utils/dgfirmare: fix possible resource leak
Add missing calls to `fclose` in functions `write_img`, `write_rootfs`
and `write_kernel`.
The not-closed files could lead to resource leaks.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Dalla Costa <andrea@dallacosta.me>
2020-01-14 17:48:50 +01:00
Tobias Schramm
d29929be07 firmware-utils: mkfwimage: add support for Ubiquiti SW devices
This commit adds support for Ubiquiti ToughSwitch XP (and probably also
EdgeSwitch XP) devices. They are mostly based on the same hardware as
MX devices.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Schramm <tobleminer@gmail.com>
2020-01-12 14:12:50 +01:00
Hauke Mehrtens
271d0c825b make_ext4fs: Update to version 2020-01-05
5c201be Add LDFLAGS when building libsparse.a
ec17045 make_ext4fs: fix build on musl systems

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
2020-01-05 20:04:37 +01:00
Andreas Böhler
a3010a7f8d ramips: add support for TP-Link RE200 v1
TP-Link RE200 v1 is a wireless range extender with Ethernet and 2.4G and 5G
WiFi with internal antennas. It's based on MediaTek MT7620A+MT7610EN.

Specifications
--------------

- MediaTek MT7620A (580 Mhz)
- 64 MB of RAM
- 8 MB of FLASH
- 2T2R 2.4 GHz and 1T1R 5 GHz
- 1x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- UART header on PCB (57600 8n1)
- 8x LED (GPIO-controlled; only 6 supported), 2x button

There are 2.4G and 5G LEDs in red and green which are controlled
separately. The 5G LED is currently not supported, since the GPIOs couldn't
be determined.

Installation
------------

Web Interface
-------------

It is possible to upgrade to OpenWrt via the web interface. However, the
OEM firmware upgrade file is required and a tool to fix the MD5 sum of
the header. This procedure overwrites U-Boot and there is not failsafe /
recovery mode present! To prepare an image, you need to take the header
and U-Boot (i.e. 0x200 + 0x20000 bytes) from an OEM firmware file and
attach the factory image to it. Then fix the header MD5Sum1.

Serial console
--------------

Opening the case is quite hard, since it is welded together. Rename the
OpenWrt factory image to "test.bin", then plug in the device and quickly
press "2" to enter flash mode (no line feed). Follow the prompts until
OpenWrt is installed.

Unfortunately, this devices does not offer a recovery mode or a tftp
installation method. If the web interface upgrade fails, you have to open
your device and attach serial console. Since the web upgrade overwrites
the boot loader, you might also brick your device.

Additional notes
----------------

MAC address assignment is based on stock-firmware. For me, the device
assigns the MAC on the label to Ethernet and the 2.4G WiFi, while the 5G
WiFi has a separate MAC with +2.

*:88    Ethernet/2.4G    label, uboot 0x1fc00, userconfig 0x0158
*:89    unused           userconfig 0x0160
*:8A    5G               not present in flash

This seems to be the first ramips device with a TP-Link v1 header. The
original firmware has the string "EU" embedded, there might be some region-
checking going on during the firmware upgrade process. The original
firmware also contains U-Boot and thus overwrites the boot loader during
upgrade.
In order to flash back to stock, the first header and U-Boot need to be
stripped from the original firmware.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Böhler <dev@aboehler.at>
2019-12-31 13:23:55 +01:00