From 71eb6de4eaaaaa85f5b084cee2f621c31879ef38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antony Pavlov Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 01:26:43 +0400 Subject: MIPS: tplink-mr3020: add documentation Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer --- arch/mips/boards/tplink-mr3020/tplink-mr3020.dox | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+) create mode 100644 arch/mips/boards/tplink-mr3020/tplink-mr3020.dox (limited to 'arch') diff --git a/arch/mips/boards/tplink-mr3020/tplink-mr3020.dox b/arch/mips/boards/tplink-mr3020/tplink-mr3020.dox new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..16fe4653d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/mips/boards/tplink-mr3020/tplink-mr3020.dox @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +/** @page tplink-mr3020 TP-LINK MR3020 wireless router + +The router has +@li Atheros ar9331 SoC; +@li 32 MiB SDRAM; +@li 4 MiB NOR type SPI Flash Memory; +@li RS232 serial interface (LV-TTL levels on board!); +@li 1 USB interface; +@li 1 Ethernet interfaces; +@li 802.11b/g/n (WiFi) interface; +@li LEDs & buttons. + +The router uses U-Boot 1.1.4 as firmware. + +Barebox can be started from U-Boot using tftp. +But you have to encode barebox image in a very special way. + +First obtain 'lzma' and 'mktplinkfw' utilities. + +The 'lzma' utility can be obtained in Debian/Ubuntu +distro by installing lzma package. + +The 'mktplinkfw' utility can be obtained from openwrt, e.g.: + +@verbatim +$ OWRTPREF=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mirrors/openwrt/master +$ curl -OL $OWRTPREF/tools/firmware-utils/src/mktplinkfw.c \ + -OL $OWRTPREF/tools/firmware-utils/src/md5.c \ + -OL $OWRTPREF/tools/firmware-utils/src/md5.h +$ cc -o mktplinkfw mktplinkfw.c md5.c +@endverbatim + +To convert your barebox.bin to U-Boot-loadable image (6F01A8C0.img) +use this command sequence: + +@verbatim +$ lzma -c -k barebox.bin > barebox.lzma +$ ./FW/mktplinkfw -c -H 0x07200103 -W 1 -N TL-WR720N-v3 \ + -s -F 4Mlzma -k barebox.lzma -o 6F01A8C0.img +@endverbatim + +You must setup tftp-server on host 192.168.0.1. +Put your 6F01A8C0.img to tftp-server directory +(usual /tftpboot or /srv/tftp). +Connect your board to your tftp-server network via Ethernet. + +Next, setup network on MR3020 and run 6F01A8C0.img, e.g.: +@verbatim +hornet> set ipaddr 192.168.0.2 +hornet> set serverip 192.168.0.1 +hornet> tftpboot 0x81000000 6F01A8C0.img +hornet> bootm 0x81000000 +@endverbatim + +TP-LINK MR3020 links: +@li http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?model=TL-MR3020 +@li http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3020 +@li https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-MR3020 + +See also: +@li http://www.eeboard.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/08/AR9331.pdf +@li http://squonk42.github.io/TL-WR703N/ + +*/ -- cgit v1.2.3