Support booting the Speedport W502V using BRN-BOOT.
authorJohn Crispin <john@openwrt.org>
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:48:04 +0000 (17:48 +0000)
committerJohn Crispin <john@openwrt.org>
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:48:04 +0000 (17:48 +0000)
commitcd1a204365fff2639329c28c1b986f3a4e7246d4
tree110a78ac8772fcb23ba40e73117c18271957f642
parent17e17170332f0fba7a53dbb0bd7480a639cf8ef7
Support booting the Speedport W502V using BRN-BOOT.

While the disadvantage is less available flash space, it's easy and
safe to flash without opening the device.
Going back to the original firmware is also possible.

This patch add two firmware utilities, mkbrncmdline and mkbrnboot.

mkbrncmdline patches the uncompressed kernel so the registeres a0 to
a3 are initialized and the memory size is passed in.

mkbrnboot takes the lzma compressed kernel and squashfs images and
creates a firmware image that can be flashed using the BRN-BOOT
recovery kernel, which is booted by holding both buttons when
powering up the device and will listen on http://192.168.2.1.

The firmware file from bin/lantiq/ to use is
openwrt-lantiq-danube-ARV4525PW-BRNDTW502-brnImage

The BRN-BOOT recovery kernel does size-check the image, so if it's
too big to fit into flash it will complain accordingly.

A second patch is needed to make the wired network interface work
since there is no u-boot to pre-initialise it.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Diedrich <ranma+openwrt@tdiedrich.de>
SVN-Revision: 30532
target/linux/lantiq/files-3.1/arch/mips/lantiq/xway/mach-arv45xx.c
target/linux/lantiq/image/Makefile
target/linux/lantiq/patches/206-owrt-brnboot.patch [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/firmware-utils/Makefile
tools/firmware-utils/src/mkbrncmdline.c [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/firmware-utils/src/mkbrnimg.c [new file with mode: 0644]