thanks for the reply. How about the firmware image? I saw there's a tool for get the segments inside the firmware image, and to extract the rootfs. But can I extract the kernel bin and reuseit or even update for one with the same size?
Just theoreticaly, could I use this kernel from the firmware (any one) on qemu? (suposing qemu supports this CPU, of course) or do I have to do some work? thanks! On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Florian Fainelli <flor...@openwrt.org> wrote: > Hi Alberich > > On Saturday 25 June 2011 01:08:41 Alberich de megres wrote: >> Hi Mates, >> >> I'm new on this list, and i like to make openwrt working on some of my >> home routers, the one where i'm most interested is cisco e3000. But I >> got some questions of the porting itself. >> (I searched before some info about this routers and its serial/jtag >> connection). I never worked with platforms like mips (only x86 and >> similars). >> >> I saw the cpu is supported by vanilla linux kernel (bcm47xx). In case >> I just incorporate the code to openwrt kernel, or even more simple, >> compile vanilla kernel what happens with the boot loader? how can i >> make it work with the router? I mean does it need to interact with CFE >> env? is there any possibilitied to blow up CFE when testing firmwares >> or CFE is only writable when you try to update it? > > The vanilla bcm47xx code only support the old-style: BCM47xx and BCM53xx > family of System-on-Chip. The new style SoC like BCM4716 and BCM4718 are still > work in progress both for mainline kernel and for OpenWrt kernels. > >> >> I'm a little bit lost whit the start point. Is there some significant >> modification on the openwrt kernel version (code level) that makes it >> different from vanilla? > > Since patches for BCM4716 and BCM4718 have been posted to the linux-mips > mailing-list, it would be easier to just throw them in > target/linux/brcm47xx/patches-3.0/ and rebuild a kernel with the appropriate > options. > -- > Florian > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
