[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] brcm47xx: image: build alternative TRX using less optimized LZMA

Mathias Adam m.adam--openwrt at adamis.de
Tue Aug 26 03:25:44 EDT 2014


Hi Stephen,

do you still have the old working trx, or better, remember how you created
it?

That might help debugging the "Starting program" hang...

Mathias


Am Di, 26.08.2014, 04:34 schrieb Stephen Parry:
> No sorry - I did not explain carefully enough:
> 1. About 9 months ago I built a trx using trunk that flashed and worked
> OK.
> 2. Two weeks ago I built a new image. This loaded and tested fine as ELF
> via tftp boot so I flashed the trx using MTD command. the resulting image
> hung after "starting program at 8001000" just as you described.
> 3. I incorrectly thought the problem was that I had flashed incorrectly so
> tried CFE flash command instead.
> 4. I got parameters of flash command wrong and overwrote CFE.
> 5. I saw your patch and kicked myself for not having seen it sooner.
>
> I was supporting (seconding) your patch by trying to explain that had I
> seen it 15 minutes earlier it would have saved me from a dead router.
>
> Rafa? Mi?ecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>First of all, I really don't think this patch itself may cause any
>> problem with MTD/partitions/bricking.
>
>> I don't understand much of your report. > It was working previously? But
>> then you say it was hanging? Then you > mention some MTD command
>> failing...? What did you do in CFE? Which firmware did you try to
>> install at all? What was the log of firmware booting & destroying your
>> CFE?
>> This "report" says nothing
>> :(_______________________________________________
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