Changes in the last year or so have left me a little confused with the OpenWrt support for the Mikrotik RB493G. I generally compile my kernels and root disk images myself, namely by running "make menuconfig" and "make" in an OpenWrt source tree. I then go on to install the built artifacts by booting my router using TFTP and so on.
First, it seems that OpenWrt master has dropped YAFFS support. I cannot find a clear statement on this, but I also cannot find how to build an OpenWrt image that supports YAFFS. Because of this, I rely on an old openwrt-ar71xx-nand-vmlinux-initramfs.elf which does contain YAFFS support to install a kernel. /dev/mtdblock5 contains the kernel, and this device bears a YAFFS filesystem on my Mikrotik RB493G. How am I to install a kernel after booting a current openwrt-ar71xx-nand-vmlinux-initramfs.elf when there is no YAFFS support? Second, things are configured to use UBIFS for the root filesystem. I have figured out how to set this up, but it seems rather involved: 1. Extract openwrt-ar71xx-mikrotik-device-nand-64m-rootfs.tar.gz on my build host, and use mkfs.ubifs on my build host to produce an UBIFS from its contents. 2. On the router, run ubinize, ubidetach, and ubiformat to install the UBIFS on /dev/mtd6. I suppose I am surprised that the OpenWrt build process does not build an UBIFS image as it does with tar.gz, ext4, and squashfs images. Am I missing something? -- Mike :wq _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
