OpenWrt offers two variants of ath10k driver and firmware, the
"normal" mainline/QCA variant and the "CT" variant [1]
developed as fork by Candela Technologies.
Both deviate from each other with respect to their feature set,
level of support and system impact (i.e. memory consumption).
Since the 19.07 release, OpenWrt has made the "CT" variant its
default for supporting (almost) all ath10k chips. [2]
However, for this firmware the CT driver/firmware introduces a number
of (potential) drawbacks:
- CT memory consumption seems to be higher. (This still needs to be
verified for the new kmod-ath10k-ct-smallbuffers variant.) This
is particularly a problem on several ath10k devices with 64 MB RAM,
where the devices run into OOM regularly (i.e. C60 v1/v2). [3]
- Though CT has active support, it is still just a fork effectively
maintained by one person.
- With CT driver/firmware there are frequent reports that the
combination of AP and 802.11s is not working. [4] While this issue
couldn't be reproduced in recent tests, it still is explicitly
not supported, and there is no interest to change that at the
moment. [5]
Due to these reasons, it seems more appropriate for us to use the
mainline/QCA variant of ath10k driver and firmwares. This patch
applies that to all affected devices.
Note that currently the mainline driver also benefits from a local
patch in OpenWrt that reduces the memory footprint. This patch has
been removed in master, so we will need to keep it locally when using
a 20.xx OpenWrt release. [6]
[1] https://github.com/greearb/ath10k-ct.git
[2] 61b5b4971e
[3] 1ac627024d
[4] https://github.com/freifunk-berlin/firmware/issues/696https://forum.openwrt.org/t/ath10k-ct-and-802-11s-mesh-not-working-on-archer-c7/13877
[5] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/2341#issuecomment-580904873
[6] 1e27befe63
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Reviewed-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
Tested-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
Reducing the amount of squashfs fragments cached in memory might reduce
memory usage, especially for systems with very little memory and
big squashfs blocksizes.
Because only ar71xx-tiny contains 32/4 (memory/flash) devices, the
reduction of the fragment cache is only applied to the ar71xx bsp.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Langhammer <rlanghammer@web.de>
Acked-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
The rssileds package has never been working for our firmware, and
most probably there is no way to make it work with the current
frequent status changes of WiFi interfaces.
So, the package is just wasted space on the flash, particularly for
the "tiny" TP-Link WA850RE v1. Despite, it has a dependency on
libiwinfo, which we plan to remove as well.
Consequently, this patch removes the package for all devices. As the
package is selected per-device, we also have to remove it per-device.
The choice of devices is based on which of them includes the package
in OpenWrt 19.07.2.
The script for disabling rssileds is kept as well, as the manual
removal of the package is prone to have it overlooked for newly added
devices or when OpenWrt changes the setting for existing ones.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Reviewed-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
The iwinfo utility is not used anywhere, so it can be removed.
This saves an additional xy KiB of space in the compressed binary,
which allows building our firmware with OpenWRT 19.07.2 for
non-LZMA 4 MiB flash devices.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Langhammer <rlanghammer@web.de>
Previously, the squashfs blocksize has been increased to 512 bytes,
to increase compression efficiency, because the OpenWRT default blocksize
has been only 256 bytes.
Since OpenWRT 18.06 the blocksize has been increased to 1024 bytes for
devices with a small flash. Because increased blocksize gives us additional
headroom for devices with only 4 MiB flash, our own 512 byte override is removed.
The default blocksize for the other targets in our firmware is 256, which is lower
than our current override. Therefore it is not changed in this commit.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Langhammer <rlanghammer@web.de>
A wpa_supplicant is not necessary for our firmware,
because it does not connect to encrypted WiFi networks.
Therefore it is possible to use the smaller hostapd-mini
instead of the combined wpad-mini packages.
Some user might use an unsupported setup, where an encrypted
wifi is used for wan uplink. This is not possible anymore.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Langhammer <rlanghammer@web.de>
The bsp .config only contain configuration, which differs from
the OpenWRT defaults. With OpenWRT 19.07, some defaults were
changed, so overriding them isn't necessary anymore.
This includes the switch from ath10k to ath10k-ct, which is now
default in OpenWRT. Our previous setup used the ct driver, but the
non-ct firmware for some devices. All devices are now reverted to
the OpenWRT default, which uses the ct variant for both the firmware
and the driver. According to some reports, the ct driver breaks
802.11s mesh for some devices, therefore these changes should be tested
before release if possible.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
The qca9888-ct firmware is used as a device package for the
C60v1 and C60v2. It doesn't get built however, as it isn't selected
anywhere.
To be able to use the firmware, it is now configured to be built as a module.
Fixes: #129
Signed-off-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
These packages are pulled automatically by OpenWrt where needed.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Reviewed-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Langhammer <rlanghammer@web.de>
We use simple-tc for traffic shaping. If those packages are
actually dependencies of other packages, they should be added
there.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Reviewed-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Langhammer <rlanghammer@web.de>
Looks like we do not need this package.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Reviewed-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Langhammer <rlanghammer@web.de>
In OpenWrt 18.06.2, tiny devices have increased in size so that
another packages removal is requires.
Fixes#122.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Reviewed-by: Tim Niemeyer <tim@tn-x.org>
Reviewed-by: Christian Dresel <fff@chrisi01.de>
This device is still in PR state in OpenWrt, since ar71xx target
is deprecated and thus lacking reviewers.
It worked nicely for me anyway, so I include the current state of
the PR (has not changed for months).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Dresel <fff@chrisi01.de>
With our dynamic resetting of WiFi interfaces, the rssileds
of OpenWrt do not work correctly. This disables them as a
workaround, since they otherwise create about 20 % CPU load.
Since the MACH file for all CPE210/510 is the same, no adjustment
of the OpenWrt-tiny patch is needed.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Dresel <fff@chrisi01.de>
USB support is removed because of very limited flash.
This allows building for tl-mr3020 again.
USB support has no known use case for this firmware.
Most usb devices would require additional drivers anyway.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
This is the correct firmware for the Unifi AC Mesh I have only
tested at Unifi AC Mesh and not at Unifi AC lite But my information
is, that both have the same Hardware
Signed-off-by: Christian Dresel <fff@chrisi01.de>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
This is based on the LEDE pull request as on 2017-10-17.
Tested successfully on device (including flashing factory
image, no TFTP).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Tested-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Reviewed-by: Tim Niemeyer <tim@tn-x.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Niemeyer <tim@tn-x.org>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Tested-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
This patch adds support for the WR841N v12. For TFTP recovery, the
image name has to be wr841nv11_tp_recovery.bin (with 11, not 12)!
Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Tested-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Reviewed-by: Tobias Klaus <tk+ff@meskal.net>
Dieses Patch fügt den Support für den WR1043 v4 hinzu. Dieses Patch
baut auf den LEDE Patch auf und darf erst nach dem LEDE Patch
applied werden.
Signed-off-by: Christian Dresel <fff@chrisi01.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kraus <mayosemmel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Niemeyer <tim@tn-x.org>
- remove httpd from .config
- remove httpd startup from rc.local
- add crawldata path creation in nodewatcher
Signed-off-by: Tim Niemeyer <tim@tn-x.org>
Reviewed-by: Tobias Klaus <tk+ff@meskal.net>
Tested-by: Christian Dresel <fff@chrisi01.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Dresel <fff@chrisi01.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kraus <mayosemmel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Niemeyer <tim@tn-x.org>
Reviewed-by: Tobias Klaus <tk+ff@meskal.net>
Tested-by: Christian Dresel <fff@chrisi01.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Dresel <fff@chrisi01.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kraus <mayosemmel@gmail.com>
also changed image comparing at sysupgrade to sha256 and added the related tool
Signed-off-by: Jan Kraus <mayosemmel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Niemeyer <tim@tn-x.org>
Reviewed-by: Tobias Klaus <tk+ff@meskal.net>
With micrond it is possible that every package has its own crontab.
Signed-off-by: Tim Niemeyer <tim.niemeyer@mastersword.de>
Reviewed-by: Steffen Pankratz <kratz00@gmx.de>
Adrian Schmutzler
Fabian Bläse
Tim Niemeyer
Christian Dresel