On 28 May 2015 at 07:33, Ian Kent <ra...@themaw.net> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 22:32 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With few recent commits OpenWrt can now generate Asus-specific TRX >> files for brcm47xx and bcm53xx. The magic is about some extra data at >> the end of TRX (so the format differs a bit, even it using the same >> file extension and layout). >> >> My request for someone having Broadcom-based Asus devices is: >> 1) Install original firmware >> 2) Try to install OpenWrt .trx firmware for that device >> 3) Let us know if it worked >> >> I don't have any Asus device around, so I'm not sure if OpenWrt >> generates really compatible images now. Above way is the only one to >> verify it for sure :) > > Has the partition corruption I saw with the RT-AC87U a while ago (when I > tested if it would boot, which it didn't) been sorted out?
It's not perfect yet, but it works: http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=commitdiff;h=beff7e61f2935a447522bc3057c51a0ef828be60 target/linux/bcm53xx/patches-3.18/901-mtd-bcm47xxpart-workaround-for-Asus-RT-AC87U-asus-pa.patch For DD we'll get a better solution (I started working on it by patch to linux-mtd for parsers support). > btw, off-topic, I've been able to load the R8000 OpenWrt chk firmware > via Luci a few times now so I don't know what changed but it seems ok > now. Support for extracting TRX files from bin (Linksys) and chk (Netgear) was added few months ago. -- Rafał _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
