Hi,
I have been trying to upgrade the AP1300 to OpenWRT 21.02.1 using the web uboot process. Regardless of the image type I use, I can’t seem to get it to upgrade. It just bricks. I have to put the stock Gl.iNet image back on to bring it back to life. Has anyone upgraded one to 21.02.1? The git instructions claim the web uboot process works but, nada.
Thanks!
yes it should work. Can you give the exact link of the firmware you used?
It bricks: meaning it cannot boot at all, cannot access via a cable to LAN?
When I say it bricks, I do mean no activity at all. I am forced to uboot and put the GL.iNet image on it. I tcpdumped the interface just to see if there was something going on there, and there was nothing. Just a solid light. I even tried updating uboot to the latest GL.Inet version. It updated but still the same issue.
The image I used can be found here: https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.1/targets/ipq40xx/generic/openwrt-21.02.1-ipq40xx-generic-glinet_gl-ap1300-squashfs-nand-factory.ubi
I am also assuming I use the ubi image. That is what I saw in the commit notes.
Thanks!
Never try this firmware. Need to check if it really have problems.
Now maybe you can flash our default firmware and use.
I was going off the commit found here.
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=b9389186b012e5bd99ea6523b8220aaee6ca0085
That suggests that openwrt 20.02 will work on this device.
I also see in the git repo this page. It too says 21.02.1 is supported. I have also built it from the official repo and the device is avaialble in the make menu.
There are 3 files when it gets built.
openwrt-ipq40xx-generic-glinet_gl-ap1300-fit-uImage.itb
openwrt-ipq40xx-generic-glinet_gl-ap1300-initramfs-fit-uImage.itb
openwrt-ipq40xx-generic-glinet_gl-ap1300-squashfs-nand-factory.ubi
It seems to me that these files need to be tarred up and used altogether. I have tried to sysupgrade with the openwrt-ipq40xx-generic-glinet_gl-ap1300-fit-uImage.itb file and I can see it writes to mtd8 and mtd9 which would be correct. But it never boots using the ramfs.
I can’t use the default firmware. I need a newer version of OpenWrt to support my applications. I tried this with the Flint and ran into the same issue. This time I did my research, saw that 21.02.1 was supported. I bought the hardware, and now I am finding out that it isn’t supported. I’m growing frustrated with GL.iNet.
Hi mfoxworthy,
Could you confirm nand type by the following command in factory firmware.
dmesg | grep -i nand
root@GL-AP1300:~# dmesg | grep -i nand
[ 0.279104] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 1.183316] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0xc8, Chip ID: 0x51
[ 1.183348] nand: GigaDevice GD5F1GQ5UE 128MiB 1.8V
[ 1.188858] nand: 128 MiB, SLC, erase size: 128 KiB, page size: 2048, OOB size: 128
root@GL-AP1300:~#
root@GL-AP1300:~# cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00040000 00010000 “0:SBL1”
mtd1: 00020000 00010000 “0:MIBIB”
mtd2: 00060000 00010000 “0:QSEE”
mtd3: 00010000 00010000 “0:CDT”
mtd4: 00010000 00010000 “0:DDRPARAMS”
mtd5: 00010000 00010000 “0:APPSBLENV”
mtd6: 00080000 00010000 “0:APPSBL”
mtd7: 00010000 00010000 “0:ART”
mtd8: 08000000 00020000 “rootfs”
mtd9: 003c1000 0001f000 “kernel”
mtd10: 019cb000 0001f000 “ubi_rootfs”
mtd11: 05cc2000 0001f000 “rootfs_data”
root@GL-AP1300:~#
Also, where can I get the old u-boot? I upgraded to uboot-gl-ap1300-b1300-s1300-b2200-20211021-md5-fd35bce37c3fb5086a2ce9049c2f7b6e.bin. I like the version the unit shipped with. I think it was a march version.
With the openwrt 21.02.1 image I get this:
[ 1.328804] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[ 1.342264] UBI error: cannot open mtd rootfs, error -2
[ 1.342317] UBI error: cannot open mtd ubi, error -2
[ 1.346318] hctosys: unable to open rtc device ˛[ 1.356979] Waiting for root device /dev/ubiblock0_1…
I think this is because it doesn’t detect NAND.
Full serial boot output:
U-Boot 2012.07 [local,local] (Oct 21 2021 - 18:08:35)
smem ram ptable found: ver: 1 len: 3
DRAM: 256 MiB
machid : 0x8010100
NAND: spi_nand: spi_nand_flash_probe SF NAND ID 0:c8:51:c8
SF: Detected GD5F1GQ5UE with page size 2 KiB, total 128 MiB
SF: Detected W25Q32 with page size 4 KiB, total 4 MiB
ipq_spi: page_size: 0x100, sector_size: 0x1000, size: 0x400000
132 MiB
MMC:
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
machid: 8010100
flash_type: 0
Net: MAC0 addr:94:83:c4:12:47:7e
PHY ID1: 0x4d
PHY ID2: 0xd0b1
ipq40xx_ess_sw_init done
eth0
Hit “gl” key to stop booting: 0
SF: Detected W25Q32 with page size 4 KiB, total 4 MiB
Checking calibration status…
Device have calibrated,checking test status…
Device haven tested, checking MAC info…
Device have MAC info, starting firmware…
Creating 1 MTD partitions on “nand1”:
0x000000000000-0x000008000000 : “mtd=0”
UBI: attaching mtd2 to ubi0
UBI: physical eraseblock size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB)
UBI: logical eraseblock size: 126976 bytes
UBI: smallest flash I/O unit: 2048
UBI: VID header offset: 2048 (aligned 2048)
UBI: data offset: 4096
UBI: volume 2 (“rootfs_data”) re-sized from 9 to 952 LEBs
UBI: attached mtd2 to ubi0
UBI: MTD device name: “mtd=0”
UBI: MTD device size: 128 MiB
UBI: number of good PEBs: 1024
UBI: number of bad PEBs: 0
UBI: max. allowed volumes: 128
UBI: wear-leveling threshold: 4096
UBI: number of internal volumes: 1
UBI: number of user volumes: 3
UBI: available PEBs: 0
UBI: total number of reserved PEBs: 1024
UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 10
UBI: max/mean erase counter: 1/0
Read 0 bytes from volume kernel to 84000000
No size specified → Using max size (3809280)
Using ‘config@ap.dk01.1-c2’ configuration
Trying ‘kernel@1’ kernel subimage
Description: ARM OpenWrt Linux-5.4.154
Type: Kernel Image
Compression: gzip compressed
Data Start: 0x840000e4
Data Size: 3685817 Bytes = 3.5 MiB
Architecture: ARM
OS: Linux
Load Address: 0x80208000
Entry Point: 0x80208000
Hash algo: crc32
Hash value: 6a6c5c57
Hash algo: sha1
Hash value: 1dcda29481fc13b5f98976c5785b6bdfd1c0e656
Verifying Hash Integrity … crc32+ sha1+ OK
Using ‘config@ap.dk01.1-c2’ configuration
Trying ‘fdt@1’ FDT blob subimage
Description: ARM OpenWrt glinet_gl-ap1300 device tree blob
Type: Flat Device Tree
Compression: uncompressed
Data Start: 0x84383fdc
Data Size: 16382 Bytes = 16 KiB
Architecture: ARM
Hash algo: crc32
Hash value: 6f86adf2
Hash algo: sha1
Hash value: 522c5c9b2c833908d7f08da6b44d5a2fe18dcd47
Verifying Hash Integrity … crc32+ sha1+ OK
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x84383fdc
Uncompressing Kernel Image … OK
Loading Device Tree to 86ff9000, end 86fffffd … OK
ipq: fdt fixup unable to find compatible node
Using machid 0x8010100 from environment
Starting kernel …
[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[ 0.000000] Linux version 5.4.154 (builder@buildhost) (gcc version 8.4.0 (OpenWrt GCC 8.4.0 r16325-88151b8303)) #0 SMP Sun Oct 24 09:01:35 2021
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc075] revision 5 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387d
[ 0.000000] CPU: div instructions available: patching division code
[ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[ 0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: GL.iNet GL-AP1300
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[ 0.000000] percpu: Embedded 15 pages/cpu s30156 r8192 d23092 u61440
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 64448
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: ubi.mtd=rootfs root=mtd:ubi_rootfs rootfstype=squashfs rootwait ubi.mtd=ubi root=/dev/ubiblock0_1 clk_ignore_unused
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
[ 0.000000] Memory: 248624K/260096K available (5786K kernel code, 189K rwdata, 872K rodata, 1024K init, 241K bss, 11472K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 10 jiffies.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 16, nr_irqs: 16, preallocated irqs: 16
[ 0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from 0xc0a00bbc with crng_init=0
[ 0.000000] arch_timer: cp15 timer(s) running at 48.00MHz (virt).
[ 0.000000] clocksource: arch_sys_counter: mask: 0xffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0xb11fd3bfb, max_idle_ns: 440795203732 ns
[ 0.000007] sched_clock: 56 bits at 48MHz, resolution 20ns, wraps every 4398046511096ns
[ 0.000021] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 20ns
[ 0.000231] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency… 96.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=480000)
[ 0.000249] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.000455] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000472] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.001486] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.002535] Setting up static identity map for 0x80300000 - 0x80300060
[ 0.002675] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
[ 0.003118] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs …
[ 0.006219] smp: Brought up 1 node, 4 CPUs
[ 0.006240] SMP: Total of 4 processors activated (384.00 BogoMIPS).
[ 0.006248] CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
[ 0.010815] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 2 part 30 variant 7 rev 5
[ 0.010979] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 0.011005] futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
[ 0.011228] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.012272] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.012641] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[ 0.013899] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 0.013949] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 0.034076] cryptd: max_cpu_qlen set to 1000
[ 0.037474] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.037546] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.037605] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.037653] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
[ 0.037663] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti giometti@linux.it
[ 0.037698] PTP clock support registered
[ 0.038375] workqueue: max_active 576 requested for napi_workq is out of range, clamping between 1 and 512
[ 0.039542] clocksource: Switched to clocksource arch_sys_counter
[ 0.040480] thermal_sys: Registered thermal governor ‘step_wise’
[ 0.040774] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.040946] IP idents hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
[ 0.041706] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 6144 bytes, linear)
[ 0.041750] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)
[ 0.041789] TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)
[ 0.041837] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
[ 0.041958] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)
[ 0.041999] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)
[ 0.042243] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.042286] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 64
[ 0.044212] workingset: timestamp_bits=14 max_order=16 bucket_order=2
[ 0.050022] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 0.050038] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.101849] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 248)
[ 0.105201] bam-dma-engine 8e04000.dma: num-channels unspecified in dt
[ 0.105220] bam-dma-engine 8e04000.dma: num-ees unspecified in dt
[ 0.105909] tcsr 1949000.tcsr: setting wifi_glb_cfg = 41000000
[ 0.106016] tcsr 194b000.tcsr: setting usb hs phy mode select = e700e7
[ 0.106112] tcsr 1953000.ess_tcsr: setting ess interface select = 0
[ 0.106195] tcsr 1957000.tcsr: setting wifi_noc_memtype_m0_m2 = 2222222
[ 0.106505] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 16 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.108412] msm_serial 78af000.serial: msm_serial: detected port #0
[ 0.108459] msm_serial 78af000.serial: uartclk = 1843200
[ 0.108515] 78af000.serial: ttyMSM0 at MMIO 0x78af000 (irq = 25, base_baud = 115200) is a MSM
[ 0.108543] msm_serial: console setup on port #0
[ 0.609614] printk: console [ttyMSM0] enabled
[ 0.614530] msm_serial: driver initialized
[ 0.623640] loop: module loaded
[ 0.624681] spi_qup 78b5000.spi: IN:block:16, fifo:64, OUT:block:16, fifo:64
[ 0.632321] random: fast init done
[ 0.635445] spi-nor spi0.0: w25q32 (4096 Kbytes)
[ 0.636144] 8 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[ 0.640899] Creating 8 MTD partitions on “spi0.0”:
[ 0.647212] 0x000000000000-0x000000040000 : “SBL1”
[ 0.652760] 0x000000040000-0x000000060000 : “MIBIB”
[ 0.657400] 0x000000060000-0x0000000c0000 : “QSEE”
[ 0.662319] 0x0000000c0000-0x0000000d0000 : “CDT”
[ 0.667048] 0x0000000d0000-0x0000000e0000 : “DDRPARAMS”
[ 0.671896] 0x0000000e0000-0x0000000f0000 : “APPSBLENV”
[ 0.676824] 0x0000000f0000-0x000000170000 : “APPSBL”
[ 0.682129] 0x000000170000-0x000000180000 : “ART”
[ 0.687983] spi-nand spi0.1: unknown raw ID 00c851c8
[ 0.691124] spi-nand: probe of spi0.1 failed with error -524
[ 0.696875] libphy: ipq4019_mdio: probed
[ 0.726792] ESS reset ok!
[ 0.751047] ESS reset ok!
[ 1.172713] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[ 1.284520] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 1.286531] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 1.286818] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 1.293145] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[ 1.300974] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 1.304590] Segment Routing with IPv6
[ 1.307559] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 1.311312] bridge: filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables is no longer available by default. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[ 1.315564] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 1.328804] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[ 1.342264] UBI error: cannot open mtd rootfs, error -2
[ 1.342317] UBI error: cannot open mtd ubi, error -2
[ 1.346318] hctosys: unable to open rtc device ˛[ 1.356979] Waiting for root device /dev/ubiblock0_1…
[ 899.665995] random: crng init done
This line: [ 0.687983] spi-nand spi0.1: unknown raw ID 00c851c8
[ 0.691124] spi-nand: probe of spi0.1 failed with error -524
I belive this is why mtd fails too.
Thanks.
It looks like the patch was put in place for ath79 but not for ipq4018
SPINAND_INFO(“GD5F1GQ5UExxG”, 0x51,
Is there a ipq4018 patch somewhere?
I used the ath79 patch and the board booted up. Things are looking much better. I’ll post instructions when I get some rest.
I think that generic patch isn’t correct.
This is the line in the ath79 patch:
SPINAND_INFO(“GD5F1GQ5UExxG”, 0x51,
This is the line in the generic patch you just referenced:
SPINAND_INFO(“GD5F1GQ4UExxG”, 0x51,
I know it’s just the description, but you may want to correct it. The byte value is correct.
Yes, you’re right it’s GD5F1GQ5UExxG.
Hi all,
Is there any update on this?
Possible to upgrade Brume to newer OpenWRT?
I’m trying to upstream the patch for add nand GD5F1GQ5UExxG support.
Could you kindly flash the test firmware to check is it boot okay on your ap1300 with GD5F1GQ5UExxG nand?
I can’t believe I missed this. I will try it tomorrow. Wow! Sorry for the late late reply. I am not getting notifications.
Many thanks for your support. I have board to test now and that firmware not work, I’ll patch it. When it works, I’ll let you know.