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>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@30532 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
* fixes spi flash for ar9
* adds limited support for netgear dgn3500 (enough for others to start working with)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@27137 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
* backport 2.6.8 patches to .39 / .32.33
* remove lqtapi
* bump tapi/dsl to .39
* migrate to new ltq_ style api
* add amazon_se support
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@27026 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
* update kernel to .37
* add support for falcon (big thank you goes to lantiq !!)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@26021 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
* adds profiles to the kernel
* fixes 2 compile errors in the usb driver
* ioports were not allocated properly
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@25278 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
* adds arv4518pw mach support
* fixes arv4525pw
* make sure all mach names have the same style
* move code around
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@25075 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
* fix pci support for more than 1 device
* fixes ioport mappings
* adds support for arcor easybox 803/arv752DWP22
* gpio direction was not set properly during a gpio_request()
* usb compile warning
bugfix, cleanup,
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@25072 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
John Crispin