staging/kaloz/tools/firmware-utils, branch master

ar71xx: add support for TP-Link RE355

2018-02-13T08:21:20Z

This device is identical as TP-Link RE450 RE355 is a dual-band AC1200 router, based on Qualcomm/Atheros QCA9558+QCA9880. Specification: 720/600/200 MHz (CPU/DDR/AHB) 64/128 MB of RAM (DDR2) 8 MB of FLASH (SPI NOR) 3T3R 2.4 GHz 3T3R 5 GHz 1x 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet 7x LED, 3x button UART header on PCB Flash instruction: Web: Download lede-ar71xx-generic-archer-c60-v2-squashfs-factory.bin and use OEM System Tools - Firmware Upgrade site. Signed-off-by: Henryk Heisig

ramips: tl-wr840n-v5: increase firmware partition for 4Mmtk layot

2018-01-18T07:04:18Z

According to console log during TP-Link TL-WR840N v5 OEM firmware update procedure 0x3e0000-0x3f0000 64kB "config" partition, which is used to store router's configuration settings, is erased and recreated again during every OEM firmware update procedure, thus does not contain any valuable factory data. So it is conviniant to use this extra 64kB erase block for jffs overlay due limited flash size on this device like it used on TP-Link's ar71xx boards. Signed-off-by: Serg Studzinskii

firmware-tools/ptgen: use portable exit codes

2018-01-02T06:14:09Z

Signed-off-by: Michael Heimpold

firmware-tools/ptgen: fix minor coding style issues

2018-01-02T06:14:09Z

Signed-off-by: Michael Heimpold

firmware-utils: mktplinkfw: add support for BR region code

2017-12-14T08:29:30Z

Signed-off-by: Henryk Heisig

firmware-utils: mktplinkfw: fix JFFS2 EOF markers

2017-12-14T08:29:30Z

mktplinkfw/mktplinkfw2 utilities put JFFS2 EOF market only at 64KB boundary, this could lead to current device configuration lost during the sysupgrade on a device, which is equpped with flash with the 4KB erase block size (e.g. TP-Link Archer C20). This happens when 64KB and 4KB alignments do not match, so the JFFS2 data is written not exactly at the partition beginnig and startup scripts can not find the JFFS2 during the first boot just after the sysupgrade. Fix this by placing additional JFFS2 EOF marker at a 4KB boundary. Also keep the marker at 64KB intact, so the utilities will produce images suitable for devices with both 4KB and 64KB erase blocks. Fixes: 29a2c2ea80441895a2ffe100d854d2b26d5fa606 (add ability to put jffs2 eof marker into the image) Signed-off-by: Sergey Ryazanov

firmware-utils: add otrx tool for handling TRX images

2017-11-17T10:42:59Z

It can be a replacement for the trx tool. The advantage is that otrx doesn't alloc buffer for the whole TRX which can be a nice optimization when creating big images. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki Acked-by: Hauke Mehrtens

ar71xx: add support for TP-Link TL-WR1043N v5

2017-11-14T21:36:46Z

TP-Link TL-WR1043N v5 appears to be identical to the TL-WR1043ND v4, except that the USB port has been removed and there is no longer a removable antenna option. The software is more in line with the Archer series in that it uses a nested bootloader scheme. Specifications: - QCA9563 at 775 MHz - 64 MB RAM - 16 MB flash - 3 (non-detachable) Antennas / 450 Mbit - 1x/4x WAN/LAN Gbps Ethernet (QCA8337) - reset and Wi-Fi buttons Signed-off-by: Tim Thorpe Signed-off-by: Ludwig Thomeczek

firmware-utils: tplink-safeloader: add more country codes for Archer C7 v4

2017-11-14T21:36:46Z

If codes do not match, it is impossible to flash from the stock firmware. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Tunin

ar71xx: increase kernel partition size for TP-Link RE450 v1

2017-11-14T21:36:46Z

This increases kernel partition size and fixes rootfs (file-system) partition size on TP-Link RE450 v1. Also, while we are at it, switch from statically defined kernel and rootfs partitions in kernel cmdline to "tplink-fw" mtd splitter. Fixes: FS#1072. Signed-off-by: Piotr Dymacz