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Add support for Genexis Pulse EX400 / Inteno Pulse EX400. A branded
variant for the Finnish ISP DNA has already been added in fea2264d9f
(ramips: mt7621: Add DNA Valokuitu Plus EX400, 2023-07-31). This commit
adds support for the generic variants with Inteno and Genexis branding.
Inteno changed its name to Genexis and both brandings exist.
In terms of electronics, there is no difference between the DNA-branded
version and other brandings. LED markings on the case are different,
though. While the DNA-version has a "software-update" LED, the other
versions have a WPS LED. To reduce user confusion, create a separate
image.
Add the different device-tree with the different LED and rename things
to work the same way for both variants.
Specifications:
- Device: Genexis Pulse EX400 / Inteno Pulse EX400
- SoC: MT7621A
- Flash: 256 MB NAND
- RAM: 256 MB
- Ethernet: Built-in, 2 x 1 GbE
- Wifi: MT7603 2.4 GHz 2x2 MIMO, MT7615 5 GHz 4x4 MU-MIMO
- USB: 1x 2.0
- LEDs (GPIO): green/red status, green WPS
- LEDs (SX9512, unsupported): Broadband, Wi-Fi 2.4G, Wi-Fi 5G
- Buttons (GPIO): Reset
- Buttons (SX9512, unsupported): Wi-Fi 2.4G, Wi-Fi 5G, WPS
MAC addresses:
- LAN: U-Boot 'ethaddr' (label)
- WAN: label + 1
- 2.4 GHz: label + 6
- 5 GHz: label + 7
Serial:
There is a black block connector next to the red ethernet connector. It
is accessible also through holes in the casing.
Pinout (TTL 3.3V)
+---+---+
|Tx |Rx |
+---+---+
|Vcc|Gnd|
+---+---+
Firmware:
The vendor firmware is a fork of OpenWrt (Reboot) with a kernel version
4.4.93. The flash is arranged as below and there is a dual boot
mechanism alternating between rootfs_0 and rootfs_1.
+-------+------+------+-----------+-----------+
| | env1 | env2 | rootfs_0 | rootfs_1 |
| +------+------+-----------+-----------+
| | UBI volumes |
+-------+-------------------------------------+
|U-Boot | UBI |
+-------+-------------------------------------+
|mtd0 | mtd1 |
+-------+-------------------------------------+
| NAND |
+---------------------------------------------+
In OpenWrt rootfs_0 will be used as a boot partition that will contain the
kernel and the dtb. The squashfs rootfs and overlay are standard OpenWrt
behaviour.
+-------+------+------+-----------+--------+------------+
| | env1 | env2 | rootfs_0 | rootfs | rootfs_data|
| +------+------+-----------+--------+------------+
| | UBI volumes |
+-------+-----------------------------------------------+
|U-Boot | UBI |
+-------+-----------------------------------------------+
|mtd0 | mtd1 |
+-------+-----------------------------------------------+
| NAND |
+-------------------------------------------------------+
U-boot:
With proper serial access, booting can be halted to U-boot by pressing
any key. TFTP and flash writes are available, but only the first one has
been tested.
NOTE: Recovery mode can be accessed by holding down the reset button while
powering on the device. The led 'Update' will show a solid green light
once ready. A web server will be running at 192.168.1.1:80 and it will
allow flashing a firmware package. You can cycle between rootfs_0 and
rootfs_1 by pressing the reset button once.
Root password:
With the vendor web UI create a backup of your settings and download the
archive to your computer. Within the archive in the file
/etc/shadow replace the password hash for root with that of a password you
know. Restore the configuration with the vendor web UI and you will have
changed the root password.
SSH access:
You might need to enable the SSH service for LAN interface as by default
it's enabled for WAN only.
Installing OpenWrt:
With the vendor web UI, or from the U-Boot recovery UI, install the
OpenWrt factory image. Alternatively, ssh to the device and use
sysupgrade -n from cli.
Finalize by installing the OpenWrt sysupgrade image to get a fully
functioning system.
Reverting to the vendor firmware:
Boot with OpenWrt initramfs image
- Remove volumes rootfs_0, rootfs and rootfs_data and create vendor
volumes.
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -n 2
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -n 3
ubirmvol /dev/ubi0 -n 4
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -N rootfs_0 -S 990
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -N rootfs_1 -S 990
Power off and enter to the U-boot recovery to install the vendor
firmware.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gnau <andreas.gnau@iopsys.eu>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/17551
(cherry picked from commit 3e7337feead8e0a0f5a05f5b91d7d0fd7f14ec56)
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/18238
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
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!
Download
Built firmware images are available for many architectures and come with a package selection to be used as WiFi home router. To quickly find a factory image usable to migrate from a vendor stock firmware to OpenWrt, try the Firmware Selector.
If your device is supported, please follow the Info link to see install instructions or consult the support resources listed below.
An advanced user may require additional or specific package. (Toolchain, SDK, ...) For everything else than simple firmware download, try the wiki download page:
Development
To build your own firmware you need a GNU/Linux, BSD or macOS 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.
binutils bzip2 diff find flex gawk gcc-6+ getopt grep install libc-dev libz-dev
make4.1+ perl python3.7+ rsync subversion unzip which
Quickstart
-
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.
-
LuCI Web Interface: Modern and modular interface to control the device via a web browser.
-
OpenWrt Packages: Community repository of ported packages.
-
OpenWrt Routing: Packages specifically focused on (mesh) routing.
-
OpenWrt Video: Packages specifically focused on display servers and clients (Xorg and Wayland).
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