AP1300LTE OpenWRT 21.02.1 Upgrade Procedure

hansome · 2022-02-07T06:54:51.045Z

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?

mfoxworthy · 2022-03-22T03:17:06.042Z

I can’t believe I missed this. I will try it tomorrow. Wow! Sorry for the late late reply. I am not getting notifications.

hansome · 2022-03-22T12:26:02.934Z

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.

hansome · 2022-03-29T09:03:52.451Z

I fetch linux upstream and make a patch, test okay, and make a pr to openwrt upsteam.

mfoxworthy · 2022-04-04T18:44:07.768Z

I have a working image that I built using the patch you mentioned earlier in the thread. I just needed to you the ubi file in uboot first. After that, sysupgrades work perfectly. It was fairly straight forward after I realized what was happening.

hansome · 2022-04-05T07:04:03.883Z

Thanks for help. That pr need some change merge from openwrt developer. They told me there are mismatch between earlier patch and the nand’s datasheet.

mfoxworthy · 2022-04-11T14:33:07.936Z

I saw the comments. There are also some other changes that involve the magic bits too. Are you going to bring those changes in?

hansome · 2022-04-12T02:25:51.830Z

Openwrt developer has commit the changes to master branch, so using openwrt 21.02, we have to patch our own source then.

mfoxworthy · 2022-04-12T20:28:13.026Z

Okay… No worries. Are you going to patch backport the patch to 5.4.154? I have a working version, but it doesn’t have the dummy bytes mentioned in the patch for 5.15. I assume we still want these. The other option is to move to 22.03 ASAP. I’m not a fan of that idea though.

hansome · 2022-04-13T02:01:29.414Z

mfoxworthy:

Are you going to patch backport the patch to 5.4.154?

No, now we should update to 21.02.2, ie kernel 5.4.179.

mfoxworthy · 2022-04-13T03:29:45.233Z

Are you referring to 21.02.02? If so, I agree. It gets us to the end of the 21.02 cycle with the wifi bug fixes without moving all the way to snapshot releases. Good idea for sure.

hansome · 2022-04-13T03:33:07.907Z

Yes, sorry typo, fixed that

mfoxworthy · 2022-04-13T03:35:54.715Z

Good idea. Shouldn’t be too hard to quilt in, and when we decide to move to 22.x it’ll already be there.

mfoxworthy · 2022-05-11T23:53:21.766Z

It looks like OpenWRT 21.02.3 supports this device now… Is this correct? I don’t really want to brick my device.

hansome · 2022-05-12T14:15:22.064Z

No. 21.02.3 also fails with GD5F1GQ5UExxG . that support patch is merged to snapshot openwrt.

mfoxworthy · 2022-05-13T16:00:20.321Z

Ugh… I hope it makes it into 22.X… I have a bunch of these deployed. We are good with 21.02.1 with the patch we have but I want to get back onto the official repo.

Alpha · 2022-08-22T00:05:05.731Z

hansome:

that support patch is merged to snapshot openwrt.

Can y’all share the steps to flash the OpenWRT snapshot mentioned in this quote. Thanks

alzhao:

Never try this firmware.

Then Which one?

hansome · 2022-08-22T01:16:11.873Z

Use uboot to flash openwrt, please refer to this guide.

alzhao:

Never try this firmware.

Older firmware equal or less than openwrt 22.03 do not support spi nand GD5F1GQ5UExxG.

Alpha · 2022-08-22T13:50:37.095Z

hansome:

Use uboot to flash openwrt, please refer to this guide .

I followed that guide, but it only bricks. Do you have the link to the OpenWRT snapshot/firmware that you used.

hansome:

Older firmware equal or less than openwrt 22.03 do not support spi nand GD5F1GQ5UExxG.

So use 22.03 or later?

hansome · 2022-08-22T15:34:56.453Z

Only snapshot works.