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CPExxx and WBSxxx boards with AR9344 SOC use the OKLI lzma kernel loader with the offset of 3 blocks of length 4k (0x3000) in order to have a fake "kernel" that cannot grow larger than how it is defined in the now static OEM partition table. Before recent changes to the mtdsplit driver, the uImage parser for OKLI only supported images that started exactly on an eraseblock boundary. The mtdsplit parser for uImage now supports identifying images with any magic number value and at any offset from the eraseblock boundary using DTS properties to define those values. So, it is no longer necessary to use fixed sizes for kernel and rootfs Tested-by: Andrew Cameron <apcameron@softhome.net> [CPE510 v2] Tested-by: Bernhard Geier <freifunk@geierb.de> [WBS210 v2] Tested-by: Petrov <d7c48mWsPKx67w2@gmail.com> [CPE210 v1] Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt <mcpratt@pm.me> (cherry picked from commit 7b9a0c264cb9dc2c5a946a0aa9a290427a5e559c)
OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
Sunshine!
Development
To build your own firmware you need a GNU/Linux, BSD or MacOSX system (case sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin is unsupported because of the lack of a case sensitive file system.
Requirements
You need the following tools to compile OpenWrt, the package names vary between distributions. A complete list with distribution specific packages is found in the Build System Setup documentation.
gcc binutils bzip2 flex python3 perl make find grep diff unzip gawk getopt
subversion libz-dev libc-dev rsync which
Quickstart
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Run
./scripts/feeds update -ato obtain all the latest package definitions defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default -
Run
./scripts/feeds install -ato install symlinks for all obtained packages into package/feeds/ -
Run
make menuconfigto select your preferred configuration for the toolchain, target system & firmware packages. -
Run
maketo build your firmware. This will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain and then cross-compile the GNU/Linux kernel & all chosen applications for your target system.
Related Repositories
The main repository uses multiple sub-repositories to manage packages of
different categories. All packages are installed via the OpenWrt package
manager called opkg. If you're looking to develop the web interface or port
packages to OpenWrt, please find the fitting repository below.
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LuCI Web Interface: Modern and modular interface to control the device via a web browser.
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OpenWrt Packages: Community repository of ported packages.
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OpenWrt Routing: Packages specifically focused on (mesh) routing.
Support Information
For a list of supported devices see the OpenWrt Hardware Database
Documentation
Support Community
- Forum: For usage, projects, discussions and hardware advise.
- Support Chat: Channel
#openwrton oftc.net.
Developer Community
- Bug Reports: Report bugs in OpenWrt
- Dev Mailing List: Send patches
- Dev Chat: Channel
#openwrt-develon oftc.net.
License
OpenWrt is licensed under GPL-2.0