AP1300LTE OpenWRT 21.02.1 Upgrade Procedure

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.

mfoxworthy · 2022-10-10T18:23:42.078Z

hansome:

GD5F1GQ5UExxG

There is no support for the AP1300 in the snapshot directory or the git. I checked it out and the AP1300 is completely missing. I saw some other people adding support for LTE and so on but now when I try to download snapshot releases the device is not in the list.

hansome · 2022-10-11T06:47:50.270Z

FYI.
You can enable ap1300 target and compile by your self.
I’ll check the upstream change later.

mfoxworthy · 2022-10-13T20:14:48.732Z

I didn’t see it under ipq4x00 in the full build menuconfig either. Is it a DSA issue?