09/12/2018 21:44, W. Michael Petullo:
Changes in the last year or so have left me a little confused with the
OpenWrt support for the Mikrotik RB493G. I generally compile my kernels
and root disk images myself, namely by running "make menuconfig" and
"make" in an OpenWrt source tree. I then go on to install the built
artifacts by booting my router using TFTP and so on.
First, it seems that OpenWrt master has dropped YAFFS support. I cannot
find a clear statement on this, but I also cannot find how to build an
OpenWrt image that supports YAFFS.
kernel2minor was introduced to get rid of YAFFS [0]. It adds the YAFFS
magic to the kernel binary, which is required by the bootloader to
locate the kernel on flash[1].
Because of this, I rely on an old
openwrt-ar71xx-nand-vmlinux-initramfs.elf which does contain YAFFS
support to install a kernel. /dev/mtdblock5 contains the kernel, and
this device bears a YAFFS filesystem on my Mikrotik RB493G.
How am I to install a kernel after booting a current
openwrt-ar71xx-nand-vmlinux-initramfs.elf when there is no YAFFS support?
Aren't you supposed to load any of the nand-*-initramfs-kernel.bin? The
initramfs-lzma.elf is some legacy image build code leftover.
Second, things are configured to use UBIFS for the root filesystem. I
have figured out how to set this up, but it seems rather involved:
1. Extract openwrt-ar71xx-mikrotik-device-nand-64m-rootfs.tar.gz on my
build host, and use mkfs.ubifs on my build host to produce an UBIFS from
its contents.
2. On the router, run ubinize, ubidetach, and ubiformat to install the
UBIFS on /dev/mtd6.
I suppose I am surprised that the OpenWrt build process does not build
an UBIFS image as it does with tar.gz, ext4, and squashfs images. Am I
missing something?
Indeed, an ubinized image - which can be written to flash using the mtd
command - is missing.
Instead of adding such an image, I would like to propose another -
hopefully easier - method to get OpenWrt installed on mikrotik nand boards.
Would you please give the mikrotik branch from my staging tree[2] a try.
The commands required are mentioned in the commit message. Be aware, due
to lack of hardware it's not runtime tested.
Mathias
[0] https://git.openwrt.org/17ee6bb8f3
[1] https://git.io/fpHJx
[2] https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/mkresin.git
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