[OpenWrt-Devel] Sysupgrade to Barrier Breaker on au1000 (MTX-1)

[John Crispin]

Hi Bruno

i will merge a patch post the rc2 fork that will generate old and new
images int he release branch while not doing so in the dev trunk. i
really dont want any workarounds in trunk

how about that ?

	John

On 21/07/2014 15:20, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> On 07/21/2014 12:28 PM, Bruno Randolf wrote:
>> It would be possible to create a special image for upgrade from 
>> AA, something like 
>> "openwrt-au1000-au1500-jffs2-128k-sysupgrade-from-12.09.bin", but
>> I think it's simpler to just add a symlink to the tar.gz in all
>> cases,
> 
> The symlink approach does not work, as dd does not recognize the 
> symlink and the rootfs is broken afterwards. So IMHO the best 
> solution is to create a special sysupgrade image for upgrade from 
> 12.09, like 
> "openwrt-au1000-au1500-jffs2-128k-sysupgrade-from-12.09.bin"...
> 
> diff --git a/target/linux/au1000/image/Makefile 
> b/target/linux/au1000/image/Makefile index 63c0b03..56f613b 100644 
> --- a/target/linux/au1000/image/Makefile +++ 
> b/target/linux/au1000/image/Makefile @@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ define 
> Image/Build $(CP) $(BIN_DIR)/$(IMG_PREFIX)-$(1).fs 
> $(TMP_DIR)/$(IMG_PREFIX)-root.fs tar -C $(BIN_DIR) -cvzf 
> $(BIN_DIR)/$(IMG_PREFIX)-$(1)-sysupgrade.bin \ 
> $(IMG_PREFIX)-vmlinux.bin -C $(TMP_DIR) $(IMG_PREFIX)-root.fs + # 
> backwards compatible image for upgrade from Attitude Adjustment 
> (12.09) +       $(CP) $(BIN_DIR)/$(IMG_PREFIX)-$(1).fs 
> $(TMP_DIR)/$(IMG_PREFIX)-jffs2-128k.fs +       tar -C $(BIN_DIR) 
> -cvzf $(BIN_DIR)/$(IMG_PREFIX)-$(1)-sysupgrade-from-12.09.bin \ + 
> $(IMG_PREFIX)-vmlinux.bin -C $(TMP_DIR)
> $(IMG_PREFIX)-jffs2-128k.fs ifeq
> ($(CONFIG_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS),y) $(call Image/Build/Initramfs)
> endif
> 
> bruno
> 
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