[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH][RESEND.3] ar71xx:stops qihoo c301 booting into backup firmware

Yousong Zhou yszhou4tech at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 02:01:00 EDT 2014


>> On 2014/9/20 17:18, swigger wrote:
>>> Openwrt recently adds Qihoo [NYSE:QIHU] C301 router support.
>>> However, this router has a backup firmware in the second flash and the
>>> current trunk can only boot 3 times before u-boot boots into that backup
>>> firmware. This is a stratgy for unbricking.
>>>
>>> This patch makes u-boot happy.
>>>

I do not have a device of this, but looks like it has some quirks that
needs to be taken care of.  How about creating a wiki page for this
and documenting your findings about the backup firmware, instructions
on how to flash OpenWrt from OEM and to restore to OEM firmware, etc?


Regards.

               yousong
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