ath79: create Aruba AP-105 APBoot compatible image

Alter the Aruba AP-105 image generation process so OpenWrt can be loaded
with the vendor Aruba APBoot.

This works by prepending the OpenWrt LZMA loader to the uImage and
jumping directly to the loader. Aruba does not offer bootm on these
boards.

This approach keeps compatibility to devices which had their U-Boot
replaced. Both bootloaders can boot the same image.

The same modification is most likely also possible for the Aruba AP-175.

With this patch, new installations do not require replacing the
bootloader and can be performed from the serial console without opening
the case.

Installation
------------

1. Attach to the serial console of the AP-105.
   Interrupt autoboot and change the U-Boot env.

   $ setenv apb_rb_openwrt "setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1;
     setenv serverip 192.168.1.66;
     netget 0x84000000 ap105.bin; go 0x84000040"
   $ setenv apb_fb_openwrt "cp.b 0xbf040000 0x84000000 0x10000;
     go 0x84000040"
   $ setenv bootcmd "run apb_fb_openwrt"
   $ saveenv

2. Load the OpenWrt initramfs image on the device using TFTP.
   Place the initramfs image as "ap105.bin" in the TFTP server
   root directory, connect it to the AP and make the server reachable
   at 192.168.1.66/24.

   $ run apb_rb_openwrt

3. Once OpenWrt booted, transfer the sysupgrade image to the device
   using scp and use sysupgrade to install the firmware.

Signed-off-by: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>

diff --git a/target/linux/ath79/image/generic.mk b/target/linux/ath79/image/generic.mk
index 328861de037dc7eab93ea0252e85b7597ab40665..68ecba972bd2010eede593b830d550f8ef9f50db 100644 (file)
--- a/target/linux/ath79/image/generic.mk
+++ b/target/linux/ath79/image/generic.mk
@@ -392,6 +392,12 @@ define Device/aruba_ap-105
   DEVICE_MODEL := AP-105
   IMAGE_SIZE := 16000k
   DEVICE_PACKAGES := kmod-i2c-gpio kmod-tpm-i2c-atmel
+  LOADER_TYPE := bin
+  LOADER_FLASH_OFFS := 0x42000
+  COMPILE := loader-$(1).bin
+  COMPILE/loader-$(1).bin := loader-okli-compile
+  KERNEL := kernel-bin | append-dtb | lzma | uImage lzma -M 0x4f4b4c49 | loader-okli $(1) 8128 | uImage none
+  KERNEL_INITRAMFS := kernel-bin | append-dtb | lzma | loader-kernel | uImage none
 endef
 TARGET_DEVICES += aruba_ap-105