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Date:      Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:41:06 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-embedded <freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Making Picostation m2HP work
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Don't look at me, I'm just the wifi hacker. :)

Hiren, we need to figure out which particular board type is applicable
for your flash image...



-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
>>
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