From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 12 08:56:16 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7439A1065673; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:56:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ray@dlink.ua) Received: from dlink.ua (smtp.dlink.ua [193.138.187.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC4408FC17; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:56:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw-lan1.kiev.dlink.ua ([192.168.10.10] helo=terran.dlink.ua) by dlink.ua with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9ZOO-0006y5-Qq; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:56:13 +0300 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:56:07 +0300 From: Aleksandr Rybalko To: Milan Obuch Message-Id: <20110412115607.aa420363.ray@dlink.ua> In-Reply-To: <20110412100041.00cfe100@atom.dino.sk> References: <20110331101554.68171eed@atom.dino.sk> <20110331142640.07f2101b@atom.dino.sk> <20110401005733.3598e82c.ray@ddteam.net> <20110408095712.1fc36066@atom.dino.sk> <20110408113132.3c1df0a8.ray@dlink.ua> <20110409142931.3d1884a9@atom.dino.sk> <20110411124159.8b93df20.ray@dlink.ua> <20110412100041.00cfe100@atom.dino.sk> Organization: D-Link X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Aleksandr Rybalko , freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Re: TP link MR3220 status, boot from flash via u-boot question X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:56:16 -0000 On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:00:41 +0200 Milan Obuch wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:41:59 +0300, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: >> >> > On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 14:29:31 +0200 >> > Milan Obuch wrote: >> > >> > >> On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:31:32 +0300, Aleksandr Rybalko >> > >> wrote: >> > >> >> > >> > On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:57:12 +0200 >> > >> > Milan Obuch wrote: >> > >> > >> >> [ snip ] >> >> > >> For lzma, u-boot told 'bad gzip data, must reset'. No joy. I have >> > >> no idea on old lzma method, will try xz, but I have little hope it >> > >> will be any better. >> > >> >> > >> > oldlzma is a lzma tool 4.17 >> > You can use my copy (Makefile reorganized to simple BSD Makefile) >> > http://my.ddteam.net/files/oldlzma.tar.gz >> > >> >> I will try, but not too hard :) (see below) >> >> [ snip ] >> >> > >> Will try with -O binary, actually I am using it now without this >> > >> option. >> > Don't forget to use objcopy of mips toolchain (somewhere >> > in /usr/obj/mips.mipsel) >> > >> >> Yes, naturally - all tools are cross build ones... >> >> [ snip ] >> >> > >> > >> On a side note, there is one thing to be addressed. As my >> > >> > >> device has only 4 MB flash, I still need to shrink the image >> > >> > >> I would like to use there. I could put there working kernel, >> > >> > >> when flash boot issue is solved, but root fs not yet, >> > >> > >> together they do not fit. I still need to save as much as 600 >> > >> > >> kB of space... Do you have any tips to share? In some older >> > >> > >> mails here I saw you managed to do it for other device... >> > >> > >> > >> > 1. compile with NOSHARED=no >> > >> > 2. delete .h, .a, .o and many other docs and unused binary's (I >> > >> > think that step you know :) ) 3. mkulzma+geom_uncompress instead >> > >> > mkuzip+geom_uzip >> > >> > >> > >> >> > >> There are following files at http://my.ddteam.net page: >> > >> >> > >> 2011-01-19_add_contrib_xz-embedded.patch >> > >> 2011-01-19_geom_ulzma_and_mkulzma.patch >> > >> 2011-01-21_geom_ulzma_and_uzip.diff >> > >> 2011-01-23_geom_uncompress.diff >> > >> 2011-01-23_geom_uncompress.patch >> > >> 2011-01-24_mkulzma.patch >> > >> >> > >> Which one should I use? There is no mkulzma in base now... >> > >> >> > >> Regards, >> > >> Milan >> > >> > Use please: >> > mkulzma utility - http://my.ddteam.net/files/2011-01-24_mkulzma.patch >> > geom_uncompress(uzip/ulzma) - >> > http://my.ddteam.net/files/2011-01-23_geom_uncompress.patch >> > xz-embedded decompressor - >> > http://my.ddteam.net/files/2011-01-19_add_contrib_xz-embedded.patch >> > >> >> Looks like my guess was right. It works and I am able to create >> combined kernel + root fs fitting in 4 MB flash, kernel is gzipped as >> u-boot seems support only that and rootfs lzma-compressed. >> >> Trouble is u-boot does not like my images, so I need to investigate >> that, which does not seems to be easy now... Has anybody some >> experience in this area? There is GPL compliance tarball from TP-link >> with some u-boot directory in it, but is it possible to build it >> somehow under FreeBSD? All in this tarball seems to be 'just Linux'... cd OpenWRT/trunk/tools/firmware-utils/src/ cc -o mktplinkfw md5.c mktplinkfw.c >> >> Regards, >> Milan -- Alexandr Rybalko aka Alex RAY