AR750s Slate dropped from Openwrt tree

Technical Support for Routers
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I am disappointed that the Slate got dropped (link at bottom). Some work should be done to get it back and to change the current 2mb flashing limitations. Some one did a lot of work here (https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/2184) to try to fix everything, but openwrt is so problematic with review and merges.

Is GL.iNet going to continue supporting this router to have an Openwrt 19.0x firmware? I am amazed that you all have not re-based by now. It would be better to have newer packages and perhaps even support in the ath79 tree, even if only in the glinet repository…

@alzhao
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=ae2d249056bdd7b87169e7c14f54c0c464b1acc5

Incidentally, I am also disappointed that the headers were not populated…

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Yeah Jeff is here on the forums too @jeffsf . OpenWRT has been lagging with official merges as well, such as the S1300 that has been pending for almost a year. Just recently they started to look at it.

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it is still possible to build by just stepping back with git, but the real problem is there is no 19.07 release build or gl-inet clean build, which means that if you want to install a package down the road you have to rebuild

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i emailed Jeff and it did not seem that he wanted to get engaged. What would be best is a clean 19.07 release from @alzhao

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Checking how to do that.

Our patches are here by now https://github.com/gl-inet/openwrt/tree/openwrt-19.07.2

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BTW, we have 1907 firmware for Slate here GL.iNet download center

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@brother As Alfie wrote you, check out the GL-iNet github, all the files are there. Even if the OpenWRT team decides to drop a router, that does not affect the GL-iNet updates and firmwares.

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Yes, but there is no clean version

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I would appreciate it!

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Those are the clean versions.

Any chance you’re going to push the E750 support bits as well?

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AR750S is dropped because its uboot cannot boot big kernel firmware. We are thinking a way to fix this.

But E750 should not have this problem. We submitted the patch in May but still not yet accepted. We will push.

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While this thread is focused on the AR750S, there is also work on the AR300M-NAND target, not sure if that was pushed thru…

@jeffsf - any comments on AR300M?

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I can’t see the PR in the OpenWrt repos anywhere - nor can I see your changes in the gl-inet/openwrt repo. Could you please link to it?

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https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/patch/1588852019-6929-1-git-send-email-luochongjun@gl-inet.com/

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Great! If you update the uboot, would you also consider adding the netconsole??

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Netconsole is a bit of a security risk - handy yes for development, but not for production…

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I agree, but so is the uboot web interface…

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Yeah - less risky with the Pepe-2K WebUI though…

NetConsole is a whole different animal :wink:

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is there any progress on this?

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Working off master… latest log there…

Seem like perhaps yes…

$ git log | grep AR750
ath79: re-enable image generation for GL-AR750S
ath79: improve status LED definitions for GL-AR750
Improve the status LED functionality in GL-AR750
ar71xx: use status led for GL.iNet GL-AR750S
ath79: add support for GL.iNet GL-AR750S when porting the
ath79: GL-AR750S (NOR/NAND): limit factory.img kernel size to 2 MB
The present U-Boot for GL-AR750S has a limit of 2 MB for kernel size.
Fixes: b496a2294c ("ath79: GL-AR750S: provide NAND support; increase kernel to 4 MB")
ath79: GL-AR750S: provide NAND support; increase kernel to 4 MB
The GL.iNet GL-AR750S has been supported by the ar71xx and ath79
The family of GL-AR750S devices on the ath79 platform now includes:
NB: See "ath79: restrict GL-AR750S kernel build-size to 2 MB" which
The GL-AR750S OEM U-Boot allows upload and flashing of either NOR
ath79: GL-AR750S: Add I2C Support
The GL-AR750S has an internal header for I2C.
The GL.iNet AR750S USB and microSD port is currently not working out of
Run-tested-on: GL.iNet AR750S
The GL.iNet AR750S is based around the QCA9563
ath79: align GL-AR750S boardname to other GL.iNet devices
As the official device name is GL-AR750S, rename the board accordingly.
ath79: add support for GL.iNet GL-AR750S
ar71xx: add support for GL.iNet GL-AR750S
This patch adds supports for GL-AR750S.
uboot-envtools: add support for GL.iNet GL-AR750
ar71xx: add support for GL.iNet GL-AR750
GL.iNet GL-AR750 is a small size, dual-band (AC750) router, based on
Qualcomm/Atheros QCA9531 v2 + QCA9887. FCC ID: 2AFIW-AR750.