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Roland Reinl 00bb18b851
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ipq40xx: Add support for Linksys MR6350
This pull request is based on
- the discussions in https://forum.openwrt.org/t/adding-openwrt-support-for-linksys-mr6350
- https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/11405 which added support for similar devices.

Device Specs:
- IPQ4019
- Quad Core CPU
- 256 MB RAM
- 256 MB FLASH
- 4 LAN ports, 1 WAN port
- 2.4GHz (802.11n) and 5GHz (802.11c) wifi
- 3 LEDs (Red, blue, green) which are routed to one indicator at the top of the case
- 2 buttons (Reset, WPS)

Disassembling the device:
- There are 4 screws at the bottom of the device which must be removed
- Two are under the fron rubber feets
- Two are under the labels in the back (corner next to the rear rubber feets)

Serial interface:
- The serial interface is already populated on the device with a 6-pin header
- Pin 1 is next to the heatsink
- Pinout: 1: 3.3V, 2: TX, 3: RX, 4: unknown, 5: GND, 6: GND
- Settings: 115200, 8N1

Migrating to OpenWrt requires multiple steps:
- Load and boot the initramfs image
- Adapt U-Boot settings to support bigger kernels
- Flash the sysupgrade image

Load and boot initramfs:
- Connect serial interface
- Set up a TFTP server on IP 192.168.1.254
- Copy openwrt-ipq40xx-generic-linksys_mr6350-initramfs-zImage.itb to TFTP server
- Rename file to C0A80101.img
- Boot up the device and stop in U-Boot
- Run the following U-Boot commands after a link has been established:
  tftp
  bootm
- Initramfs image is started now.

Adapt U-Boot settings to support bigger kernels:
- Run "fw_printenv" in the initramfs image  after booting
- There should be an entry kernsize=300000 which indicates the maximum size for the kernel is 3MB
- Execute "fw_setenv kernsize 500000" to increase the max kernel size to 5MB
- Check that the change are applied with "fw_printenv"

Flash the sysupgrade image:
- Default sysupgrade routine either with a initramfs image containing LuCI or via command line.

Revert back to OEM firmware:
- Only tested with FW_MR6350_1.1.3.210129_prod.img
- Flash the OEM firmware via sysupgrade
- Forced update is required

Signed-off-by: Roland Reinl <reinlroland+github@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/17977
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
2025-11-15 11:28:22 +01:00
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apex treewide: package: update missed hashes after switch to ZSTD 2024-04-07 14:56:04 +02:00
arm-trusted-firmware-bcm63xx include/trusted-firmware-a.mk: remove the no-warn-rwx-segments hack 2024-12-22 23:48:53 +01:00
arm-trusted-firmware-mediatek arm-trusted-firmware-mediatek: add builds for MT7987 2025-11-05 14:19:39 +00:00
arm-trusted-firmware-mvebu include/trusted-firmware-a.mk: remove the no-warn-rwx-segments hack 2024-12-22 23:48:53 +01:00
arm-trusted-firmware-rockchip arm-trusted-firmware-rockchip: Update to 2.13 2025-10-02 22:42:35 +02:00
arm-trusted-firmware-stm32 arm-trusted-firmware-stm32: rework patch for the RTC configuration 2025-05-03 20:01:43 +02:00
arm-trusted-firmware-sunxi include/trusted-firmware-a.mk: remove the no-warn-rwx-segments hack 2024-12-22 23:48:53 +01:00
arm-trusted-firmware-tools arm-trusted-firmware-tools: update to version 2.12 2025-02-13 03:16:40 +00:00
at91bootstrap at91bootstrap: put at91bootstrap images into image staging directory 2025-04-04 14:39:00 +02:00
fconfig treewide: unify OpenWrt hosted source via @OPENWRT 2021-02-05 12:00:24 -10:00
grub2 grub2: add EFI support for loongarch64 2024-05-04 14:14:24 +08:00
imx-bootlets imx-bootlets: bump to 10.12.01 2025-02-05 22:00:09 +01:00
kexec-tools kexec-tools: Add license 2025-07-12 23:27:26 +02:00
kobs-ng kobs-ng: Mark as nonshared to build in step 1 2024-07-30 21:42:33 +02:00
mt7623n-preloader mt7623n-preloader: remove mt7622-preloader 2021-02-28 04:12:23 +00:00
opensbi opensbi: update tarball hash compressed by the zstd 1.5.7 2025-07-13 16:24:10 +02:00
optee-os-stm32 optee-os-stm32: bump to 4.7.0 2025-08-17 19:02:33 +02:00
rkbin rkbin: pack rk3576 tpl blob 2025-10-02 22:42:35 +02:00
tfa-layerscape tfa-layerscape: Bump to lf-6.12.20-2.0.0 2025-08-17 19:00:58 +02:00
uboot-airoha uboot-airoha: drop HIDDEN option 2025-11-10 19:16:01 +01:00
uboot-armsr boot: uboot-armsr: update to U-Boot 2025.04 2025-05-22 18:50:24 +02:00
uboot-at91 at91: put u-boot images into image staging directory 2025-04-04 14:39:00 +02:00
uboot-ath79 uboot-ath79: update to v2025.10 2025-10-13 00:43:11 +02:00
uboot-bcm53xx uboot-bcm53xx: drop usage of AUTORELEASE 2025-10-29 21:09:57 +01:00
uboot-bcm4908 uboot-bcm4908: fix build with GCC14 2025-05-23 00:10:23 +02:00
uboot-bmips uboot-bmips: drop usage of AUTORELEASE 2025-10-29 21:09:56 +01:00
uboot-d1 uboot-d1: fix build with swig 4.3.0 2025-11-09 23:00:44 +01:00
uboot-fritz4040 treewide: package: update missed hashes after switch to ZSTD 2024-04-07 14:56:04 +02:00
uboot-imx treewide: replace AUTORELEASE with real PKG_RELEASE 2023-05-18 11:35:29 +02:00
uboot-kirkwood uboot-kirkwood: fix compilation with GCC14 2024-09-25 22:50:09 +02:00
uboot-lantiq boot-lantiq: Fix compilation with GCC 14 2025-05-03 22:04:13 +02:00
uboot-layerscape uboot-layerscape: do not build efimkcapsule tool 2025-08-22 11:24:43 +02:00
uboot-mediatek mediatek: add support for COMFAST CF-WR632AX 2025-11-09 19:33:18 +01:00
uboot-mvebu uboot-mvebu: update to version 2025.10 2025-10-11 21:52:21 +02:00
uboot-mxs packages: refresh patches 2024-05-31 11:30:06 +02:00
uboot-omap treewide: replace AUTORELEASE with real PKG_RELEASE 2023-05-18 11:35:29 +02:00
uboot-rockchip uboot-rockchip: add support for LinkEase EasePi R1 2025-11-09 23:13:25 +01:00
uboot-sifiveu uboot-sifiveu: fix build with swig 4.3.0 2025-10-25 22:33:53 +02:00
uboot-stm32 uboot-stm32: bump to 2025.07 2025-08-17 19:02:33 +02:00
uboot-sunxi uboot-sunxi: remove earlyprintk for arm64 2025-10-20 00:48:11 +02:00
uboot-tegra uboot-tegra: disable mkeficapsule build 2025-07-13 17:18:15 +02:00
uboot-tools ipq40xx: Add support for Linksys MR6350 2025-11-15 11:28:22 +01:00
uboot-zynq packages: refresh patches 2024-05-31 11:30:06 +02:00