On Wednesday 16 October 2013 09:48:33 Ben West wrote:
> I noticed that my build tree for AA r38347 only produces the
> openwrt-ar71xx-generic-om2p-squashfs-factory.bin image for Open Mesh OM2P,
> not the sysupgrade image.
> 
> The wiki page suggests these images are to be manually flashed to the
> device's partitions, instead of using sysypgrade:
> 
>  build_dir/linux-ar71xx_generic/vmlinux-om2p.uImage
>  build_dir/linux-ar71xx_generic/root.squashfs

What wiki would that be ? Do you have a link ?


> The revision history for this platform's upgrade script doesn't suggest
> anything has been intentionally disabled:
> 
> https://dev.openwrt.org/log/branches/attitude_adjustment/target/linux/ar71xx
> /base-files/lib/upgrade
> 
> Or should the "factory" image now be used when running sysupgrade on an
> OM2P?

The OM2P build process generates generates a single image for sysupgrade and 
installations. In short: Yes, you can use the 'factory' image for 
sysupgrading.


> Since I only have one such device, I'm asking here first before possibly
> finding things out the hard way. ;)

You will have a hard time bricking your node because you can always recover 
using ap51-flash.

Cheers,
Marek

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