[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 2/9] ar71xx: PowerCloud CAP324 image generation

Daniel Dickinson openwrt at daniel.thecshore.com
Mon Sep 7 20:32:41 EDT 2015


Sorry for coming off strong, but spending what time I have on another 
weekend or two farting around figuring out something used to be pretty 
much a quick cut and paste, on top of the however many weekends I spent 
my spare time working on the board definitions and such really is really 
unappealing.

Regards,

Daniel

On 2015-09-07 4:38 PM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> Sorry meant to cancel after I looked closer.
>
> However, because it looks like it involves a whack of undocumented
> variable settings and rather a mess, to be frank, so I doubt I'll get to
> it anytime soon if ever because I think it would take way more effort
> than I think it's worth (it certainly looks to me like a lot more effort
> than the old way, in part because of lack of documentation, and in part
> because there's more to write for new oems).
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
> On 2015-09-07 4:14 PM, Daniel Curran-Dickinson wrote:
>> On 2015-09-07 3:01 PM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2015-09-07 8:29 AM, Alexander Couzens wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/target/linux/ar71xx/image/Makefile
>>>>> b/target/linux/ar71xx/image/Makefile index 8f609de..15bb6a3 100644
>>>>> --- a/target/linux/ar71xx/image/Makefile
>>>>> +++ b/target/linux/ar71xx/image/Makefile
>>>>
>>>> Could you migrate to the new image Makefile format?
>>>> Like the tplink wdr4300 is using.
>>
>> Are you a developer?  It looks to me like the tp-link format you mention
>> is specifically for tp-link devices.
>>
>> The devices I did are follow the format of every device except those
>> tp-link devices, and I am not aware of these devices *having* a hardware
>> id like the tp-link devices, not am I seeing in particular the benefit
>> of the 'new' format over the old (in fact the new format seems a whole
>> lot more verbose).
>>
>>>
>>> Will look at that, but probably not until next weekend.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> IMHO: I'm not sure if we need 2 builds for the devices, when only the
>>>> layout is the difference.
>>>> When using the nocloud layout is it possible to go back to the OEM
>>>> firmware?
>>>
>>> No, hence the two builds.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> lynxis
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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