ath79: use dynamic partitioning for TP-Link CPE series
authorMichael Pratt <mcpratt@pm.me>
Wed, 5 May 2021 03:32:00 +0000 (23:32 -0400)
committerAdrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Sat, 5 Jun 2021 21:39:14 +0000 (23:39 +0200)
CPExxx and WBSxxx boards with AR9344 SOC
use the OKLI lzma kernel loader
with the offset of 3 blocks of length 4k (0x3000)
in order to have a fake "kernel" that cannot grow larger
than how it is defined in the now static OEM partition table.

Before recent changes to the mtdsplit driver,
the uImage parser for OKLI only supported images
that started exactly on an eraseblock boundary.

The mtdsplit parser for uImage now supports identifying images
with any magic number value
and at any offset from the eraseblock boundary
using DTS properties to define those values.

So, it is no longer necessary to use fixed sizes
for kernel and rootfs

Tested-by: Andrew Cameron <apcameron@softhome.net> [CPE510 v2]
Tested-by: Bernhard Geier <freifunk@geierb.de> [WBS210 v2]
Tested-by: Petrov <d7c48mWsPKx67w2@gmail.com> [CPE210 v1]
Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt <mcpratt@pm.me>
target/linux/ath79/dts/ar9344_tplink_cpe.dtsi
tools/firmware-utils/src/tplink-safeloader.c

index d4b7de440a9deccc36e16dcc2e69b0aef79d46cd..fd6aa0f08bef73b9557728c96547e0a91e205464 100644 (file)
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 #include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
 #include <dt-bindings/input/input.h>
+#include <dt-bindings/mtd/partitions/uimage.h>
 
 / {
        aliases {
                        partition@40000 {
                                label = "firmware";
                                reg = <0x040000 0x780000>;
-
-                               compatible = "fixed-partitions";
-                               #address-cells = <1>;
-                               #size-cells = <1>;
-
-                               partition@0 {
-                                       label = "kernel";
-                                       reg = <0x000000 0x300000>;
-                               };
-
-                               partition@300000 {
-                                       label = "rootfs";
-                                       reg = <0x300000 0x480000>;
-                               };
+                               compatible = "openwrt,uimage", "denx,uimage";
+                               openwrt,ih-magic = <IH_MAGIC_OKLI>;
+                               openwrt,offset = <0x3000>;
                        };
 
                        partition@7c0000 {
index 878a0afbe5097d8e2f4e523ba333548d7df95a67..e5974325ae3073f9be3c84be54913a1e8fb8d59b 100644 (file)
@@ -156,8 +156,7 @@ static struct device_info boards[] = {
                        {"default-mac", 0x30000, 0x00020},
                        {"product-info", 0x31100, 0x00100},
                        {"signature", 0x32000, 0x00400},
-                       {"os-image", 0x40000, 0x300000},
-                       {"file-system", 0x340000, 0x470000},
+                       {"firmware", 0x40000, 0x770000},
                        {"soft-version", 0x7b0000, 0x00100},
                        {"support-list", 0x7b1000, 0x00400},
                        {"user-config", 0x7c0000, 0x10000},
@@ -279,8 +278,7 @@ static struct device_info boards[] = {
                        {"default-mac", 0x30000, 0x00020},
                        {"product-info", 0x31100, 0x00100},
                        {"signature", 0x32000, 0x00400},
-                       {"os-image", 0x40000, 0x300000},
-                       {"file-system", 0x340000, 0x470000},
+                       {"firmware", 0x40000, 0x770000},
                        {"soft-version", 0x7b0000, 0x00100},
                        {"support-list", 0x7b1000, 0x00400},
                        {"user-config", 0x7c0000, 0x10000},
@@ -358,8 +356,7 @@ static struct device_info boards[] = {
                        {"default-mac", 0x30000, 0x00020},
                        {"product-info", 0x31100, 0x00100},
                        {"signature", 0x32000, 0x00400},
-                       {"os-image", 0x40000, 0x300000},
-                       {"file-system", 0x340000, 0x470000},
+                       {"firmware", 0x40000, 0x770000},
                        {"soft-version", 0x7b0000, 0x00100},
                        {"support-list", 0x7b1000, 0x00400},
                        {"user-config", 0x7c0000, 0x10000},
@@ -400,8 +397,7 @@ static struct device_info boards[] = {
                        {"default-mac", 0x30000, 0x00020},
                        {"product-info", 0x31100, 0x00100},
                        {"signature", 0x32000, 0x00400},
-                       {"os-image", 0x40000, 0x300000},
-                       {"file-system", 0x340000, 0x470000},
+                       {"firmware", 0x40000, 0x770000},
                        {"soft-version", 0x7b0000, 0x00100},
                        {"support-list", 0x7b1000, 0x00400},
                        {"user-config", 0x7c0000, 0x10000},
@@ -445,8 +441,7 @@ static struct device_info boards[] = {
                        {"default-mac", 0x30000, 0x00020},
                        {"product-info", 0x31100, 0x00100},
                        {"signature", 0x32000, 0x00400},
-                       {"os-image", 0x40000, 0x300000},
-                       {"file-system", 0x340000, 0x470000},
+                       {"firmware", 0x40000, 0x770000},
                        {"soft-version", 0x7b0000, 0x00100},
                        {"support-list", 0x7b1000, 0x00400},
                        {"user-config", 0x7c0000, 0x10000},
@@ -485,8 +480,7 @@ static struct device_info boards[] = {
                        {"default-mac", 0x30000, 0x00020},
                        {"product-info", 0x31100, 0x00100},
                        {"signature", 0x32000, 0x00400},
-                       {"os-image", 0x40000, 0x300000},
-                       {"file-system", 0x340000, 0x470000},
+                       {"firmware", 0x40000, 0x770000},
                        {"soft-version", 0x7b0000, 0x00100},
                        {"support-list", 0x7b1000, 0x00400},
                        {"user-config", 0x7c0000, 0x10000},
@@ -525,8 +519,7 @@ static struct device_info boards[] = {
                        {"default-mac", 0x30000, 0x00020},
                        {"product-info", 0x31100, 0x00100},
                        {"signature", 0x32000, 0x00400},
-                       {"os-image", 0x40000, 0x300000},
-                       {"file-system", 0x340000, 0x470000},
+                       {"firmware", 0x40000, 0x770000},
                        {"soft-version", 0x7b0000, 0x00100},
                        {"support-list", 0x7b1000, 0x00400},
                        {"user-config", 0x7c0000, 0x10000},
@@ -557,8 +550,7 @@ static struct device_info boards[] = {
                        {"default-mac", 0x30000, 0x00020},
                        {"product-info", 0x31100, 0x00100},
                        {"signature", 0x32000, 0x00400},
-                       {"os-image", 0x40000, 0x300000},
-                       {"file-system", 0x340000, 0x470000},
+                       {"firmware", 0x40000, 0x770000},
                        {"soft-version", 0x7b0000, 0x00100},
                        {"support-list", 0x7b1000, 0x00400},
                        {"user-config", 0x7c0000, 0x10000},
@@ -589,8 +581,7 @@ static struct device_info boards[] = {
                        {"default-mac", 0x30000, 0x00020},
                        {"product-info", 0x31100, 0x00100},
                        {"signature", 0x32000, 0x00400},
-                       {"os-image", 0x40000, 0x300000},
-                       {"file-system", 0x340000, 0x470000},
+                       {"firmware", 0x40000, 0x770000},
                        {"soft-version", 0x7b0000, 0x00100},
                        {"support-list", 0x7b1000, 0x00400},
                        {"user-config", 0x7c0000, 0x10000},
@@ -622,8 +613,7 @@ static struct device_info boards[] = {
                        {"default-mac", 0x30000, 0x00020},
                        {"product-info", 0x31100, 0x00100},
                        {"signature", 0x32000, 0x00400},
-                       {"os-image", 0x40000, 0x300000},
-                       {"file-system", 0x340000, 0x470000},
+                       {"firmware", 0x40000, 0x770000},
                        {"soft-version", 0x7b0000, 0x00100},
                        {"support-list", 0x7b1000, 0x00400},
                        {"user-config", 0x7c0000, 0x10000},
@@ -655,8 +645,7 @@ static struct device_info boards[] = {
                        {"default-mac", 0x30000, 0x00020},
                        {"product-info", 0x31100, 0x00100},
                        {"signature", 0x32000, 0x00400},
-                       {"os-image", 0x40000, 0x300000},
-                       {"file-system", 0x340000, 0x470000},
+                       {"firmware", 0x40000, 0x770000},
                        {"soft-version", 0x7b0000, 0x00100},
                        {"support-list", 0x7b1000, 0x00400},
                        {"user-config", 0x7c0000, 0x10000},