Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:20:53 -0700 From: hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> To: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-embedded <freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Making Picostation m2HP work Message-ID: <CALCpEUGMU7NyJJy5Edaj94u1tzYPMt18X6TPCeL34N0%2BqDLe3Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKYr3zzek2YdSDbASrzJp9wTE-L62eyXb5GZqDgoQpfqQmddZw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALCpEUHxqyZb1Y5WqsuxjvwY2Pd_xN2%2BoTgsew0DwdRMC6=5Nw@mail.gmail.com> <CALCpEUGbk8mCFqOUp6WxfdcH-kveudG-f4S0muUg4aYy0uqBtA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomsSBSs9QumGc6z=aYQ0OUqjGcxBnnsy%2B1NR_F83KUzxg@mail.gmail.com> <CALCpEUG4FR2qugb-ZYHG%2BJ7xcOL34edkPx41yOwU7qK-BynGOw@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmokPNDgkdziRFr3-MnDZudskGb0ykRk9jfY1nWhrxBZEKw@mail.gmail.com> <CAB=2f8yPSSpOZBwOv8Xr5=OtM%2BMq0-h-%2B9-tKTgjR7LvCfX6jQ@mail.gmail.com> <CALCpEUFi6qr8Cox9PpzmkPk69gb0hrhM1vepE81gqot2cVy7tQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmonxVF6GQXEZod9XajAK00i9ZP6=s3SSCDEL%2BJR6kgLVWQ@mail.gmail.com> <CALCpEUHEPRDAiCZ2-hFwD1sPPQHqmNVA=E8sJREm5qmB%2BxF5cA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmokDUhJxN7oWOr0t7T1Zq-Odf43mM9qO%2B5TDyv1DnKAJuQ@mail.gmail.com> <CALCpEUGC1NrWfNZ5%2BfAnbaCvFVpKNCOMZ9Yh6XFYFBqCWehE0Q@mail.gmail.com> <20130729151943.70ce473e14d88588337e57ba@ddteam.net> <CALCpEUEXGrazTbMUUA5jkarr8vH_a9TU-QUy9=w7TFU8ND8B_Q@mail.gmail.com> <CALCpEUGMAHwFEYKPJGyOMx9fNxnqJ=6s2VABGSyCOb-XZz_Fdg@mail.gmail.com> <51F7983C.5090309@dat.pl> <CAKYr3zw-b3f4URh3K5ysStein_P%2BSuKmg8QHmw_UWjnx%2BBNwyA@mail.gmail.com> <CAKYr3zze4LHu3y8go-Q57yZWzFDuUVTow3JBNcOPw5y5bm0RGw@mail.gmail.com> <CALCpEUEYBkKX-BY32pnpezdRmkWTUevpSh9WyFmfzQT=kRi8jA@mail.gmail.com> <CAKYr3zxEEAiu7GCAtQwW=brYaozrXAqFmNPJdb8j=MnDvdV1vg@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomhO6YrasTdFFRv6Mrp51OJ=Xq2=1g2YOB63LiMaO=rFQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAKYr3zzek2YdSDbASrzJp9wTE-L62eyXb5GZqDgoQpfqQmddZw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> Don't look at me, I'm just the wifi hacker. :) haha. > > > didnt you write the build scripts?? :P I think if he can run mkfwimage > manually with the proper -i XS2-8.txt and the > rest needed, he might come put with a properly formatted image that the Pico > will accept and checksum properly I tried setting board = XS2-8 and that did not help so I am trying to find out what other utilities are doing or how the picostation is expecting the image header/format to be. > >> >> >> Hiren, we need to figure out which particular board type is applicable >> for your flash image... Yes, whenever its convenient. No hurry. I am just dumping here what I am doing and how I am progressing so that any outright stupid thing can be detected right away. Thanks for all the inputs and for also letting me rant here :-) cheers, Hiren >> >> >> -adrian >> >> On 30 July 2013 14:14, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:57 PM, hiren panchasara < >> > hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Outback Dingo >> >> > <outbackdingo@gmail.com> >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Maciej Milewski <milu@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 >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org mailing list >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-embedded >> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> > "freebsd-embedded-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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