[PATCH] ipq40xx: add support for GL.iNet GL-B2200

Wed Oct 20 00:40:49 PDT 2021

Thanks a lot for your answer!

It seems the B2200 will need that patch as well, see openwrt/openwrt GitHub issue 4691
i.e.: TruongSinh needed to switch to zImage to boot 5.10; so may be we need to add a limit here as well?
Or somehow recommend users to patch u-boot when that patch will be present?

Thanks!!

Enrico

On Mon, 11 Oct 2021, Szabolcs Hubai wrote:

> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 01:04:50
> From: Szabolcs Hubai <szab.hu at gmail.com>
> To: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs at gmail.com>
> Cc: Li Zhang <li.zhang at gl-inet.com>,
>     Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk at adrianschmutzler.de>,
>     OpenWrt Development List <openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipq40xx: add support for GL.iNet GL-B2200
> 
> Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs at gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2021. okt. 10., V, 19:37):
>>
>> Hello Li,
>> Hello Adrian,
>> Hello Szabolcs,
>> and all!!
>>
>> First of all, what's the state of this patch? Is it mergeable as-is, or are further changes required?
>>
>> Secondly, does this device require the use of zImage or will the u-boot happily load larger kernels?
>> See commit 81d694e30b4926fea057bd3e46d996a8f098b95a authored by Szabolcs.
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Enrico
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 13 Sep 2021, Li Zhang wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:02:00
>>> From: Li Zhang <li.zhang at gl-inet.com>
>>> To: openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
>>> Cc: Li Zhang <li.zhang at gl-inet.com>
>>> Subject: [PATCH] ipq40xx: add support for GL.iNet GL-B2200
>>>
>>> This patch adds supports for GL-B2200.
>>>
>>> Specifications:
>>>       - SOC: Qualcomm IPQ4019 ARM Quad-Core
>>>       - RAM: 512 MiB
>>>       - Flash: 16 MiB NOR - SPI0
>>>       - EMMC: 8GB EMMC
>>>       - ETH: Qualcomm QCA8075
>>>       - WLAN1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA4019 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n 2x2
>>>       - WLAN2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA4019 5GHz 802.11n/ac W2 2x2
>>>       - WLAN3: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9886 5GHz 802.11n/ac W2 2x2
>>>       - INPUT: Reset, WPS
>>>       - LED: Power, Internet
>>>       - UART1: On board pin header near to LED (3.3V, TX, RX, GND), 3.3V without pin - 115200 8N1
>>>       - UART2: On board with BLE module
>>>       - SPI1: On board socket for Zigbee module
>>>
>>> Update firmware instructions
>>> ============================
>>> Pleae update firmware on uboot web(default 192.168.1.1).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <li.zhang at gl-inet.com>
>>> ---
>>> package/firmware/ipq-wifi/Makefile                 |   2 +
>>> .../ipq-wifi/board-glinet_gl-b2200.qca4019         | Bin 0 -> 24308 bytes
>>> .../ipq-wifi/board-glinet_gl-b2200.qca9888         | Bin 0 -> 12200 bytes
>>> target/linux/ipq40xx/Makefile                      |   2 +-
>>> .../ipq40xx/base-files/etc/board.d/02_network      |   5 +
>>> .../etc/hotplug.d/firmware/11-ath10k-caldata       |   3 +
>>> .../arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-ipq4019-gl-b2200.dts    | 364 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>> target/linux/ipq40xx/image/generic.mk              |  27 ++
>>> .../patches-5.4/901-arm-boot-add-dts-files.patch   |   3 +-
>>> 9 files changed, 404 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>> create mode 100644 package/firmware/ipq-wifi/board-glinet_gl-b2200.qca4019
>>> create mode 100644 package/firmware/ipq-wifi/board-glinet_gl-b2200.qca9888
>>> create mode 100644 target/linux/ipq40xx/files/arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-ipq4019-gl-b2200.dts
>>>
>>> <SNIP>
>>> diff --git a/target/linux/ipq40xx/image/generic.mk b/target/linux/ipq40xx/image/generic.mk
>>> index 18f5d23..b0d6cf5 100644
>>> --- a/target/linux/ipq40xx/image/generic.mk
>>> +++ b/target/linux/ipq40xx/image/generic.mk
>>> @@ -81,6 +81,17 @@ define Build/qsdk-ipq-factory-nand-askey
>>>       @mv $@.new $@
>>> endef
>>>
>>> +define Build/qsdk-ipq-app-gpt
>>> +     cp $@ $@.tmp 2>/dev/null || true
>>> +     ptgen -g -o $@.tmp -a 1 -l 1024 \
>>> +                     -t 0x2e -N 0:HLOS -r -p 32M \
>>> +                     -t 0x83 -N rootfs -r -p 128M \
>>> +                             -N rootfs_data -p 512M \
>>> +                             -N user_data -p 6766M
>>> +     cat $@.tmp >> $@
>>> +     rm $@.tmp
>>> +endef
>>> +
>>> define Build/SenaoFW
>>>       -$(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/mksenaofw \
>>>               -n $(BOARD_NAME) -r $(VENDOR_ID) -p $(1) \
>>> @@ -506,6 +517,22 @@ define Device/glinet_gl-b1300
>>> endef
>>> TARGET_DEVICES += glinet_gl-b1300
>>>
>>> +define Device/glinet_gl-b2200
>>> +     $(call Device/FitImage)
>>> +     DEVICE_VENDOR := GL.iNet
>>> +     DEVICE_MODEL := GL-B2200
>>> +     SOC := qcom-ipq4019
>>> +     DEVICE_DTS_CONFIG := config at ap.dk04.1-c3
>>> +     KERNEL_INITRAMFS_SUFFIX := -recovery.itb
>>> +     IMAGES := sdcard.img.gz
>>> +     IMAGE/sdcard.img.gz := qsdk-ipq-app-gpt |\
>>> +                             pad-to 1024k | append-kernel |\
>>> +                             pad-to 33792k | append-rootfs |\
>>> +                             append-metadata | gzip
>>> +     DEVICE_PACKAGES := ipq-wifi-glinet_gl-b2200 kmod-fs-ext4 kmod-mmc kmod-spi-dev mkf2fs e2fsprogs kmod-fs-f2fs
>>> +endef
>>> +TARGET_DEVICES += glinet_gl-b2200
>>> +
>>> define Device/glinet_gl-s1300
>>>       $(call Device/FitImage)
>>>       DEVICE_VENDOR := GL.iNet
>>> <SNIP>
>>> --
>>> 2.7.4
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
> Hi Enrico,
>
> In the device recipe "Device/glinet_gl-b2200" there is no
> "KERNEL_SIZE", like in the other GL.Inet device recipe
> "Device/glinet_gl-ap1300" which is already in tree.
> While they use the same U-Boot binary [0], I hope these two devices
> are able to load 4MB kernels already.
>
> In the meantime Dongming answered my question on GL.Inet forums [1]:
>> Thanks for that solution. It’s possible to load >4MB kernel after patching uboot [0]. I’ll do some test.
>
>
>
> [0]: https://github.com/gl-inet/uboot-ipq40xx
> [1]: https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/ipq40xx-kernel-size-and-u-boot-v5-10-is-too-big-for-4-mb/17619/4
>
>
> Szabolcs
>