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2.4 KiB
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55 lines
2.4 KiB
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From: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 20:51:05 +0200
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Subject: ar71xx: lzma-loader: move padding workaround to gzip step
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Some devices (TP-Link TL-WR1043ND v1) don't boot reliably when the
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uncompressed loader is too small. This was workarounded in the loader by
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adding 512KB of padding to the .data section of the loader binary.
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This approach had two issues:
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- The padding was only working when .data was non-empty (otherwise the
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section would become NOBITS, omitting it in the binary). .data was only
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empty when no CMDLINE was set, leading to further workarounds like
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fe594bf90d09 ("ath79: fix loader-okli, lzma-loader"), and this
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workaround was only effective because a missing "const" led to the kernel
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argv being stored in .data instead of .rodata
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- The padding was not only added to the compressed .gz loader, but also
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uncompressed .bin and .elf loaders. The prevented embedding the kernel
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cmdline in the loader for non-gz loader types.
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To fix both issues, move the creation of the padding from the linker script
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to the gzip step.
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Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
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diff --git a/target/linux/ar71xx/image/lzma-loader/Makefile b/target/linux/ar71xx/image/lzma-loader/Makefile
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index 9b81e87306f235d1e7284401828240b9b9787011..738093a958013624abb8f84a3874e1c795da349d 100644
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--- a/target/linux/ar71xx/image/lzma-loader/Makefile
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+++ b/target/linux/ar71xx/image/lzma-loader/Makefile
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@@ -47,7 +47,11 @@ loader-compile: $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/.prepared
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clean all
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loader.gz: $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/loader.bin
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- gzip -nc9 $< > $(LOADER_GZ)
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+ # Workaround for buggy bootloaders: Some devices
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+ # (TP-Link TL-WR1043ND v1) don't work correctly when
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+ # the uncompressed loader is too small (probably a cache
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+ # invalidation issue)
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+ dd if=$< bs=512K conv=sync | gzip -nc9 > $(LOADER_GZ)
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loader.elf: $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/loader.elf
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$(CP) $< $(LOADER_ELF)
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diff --git a/target/linux/ar71xx/image/lzma-loader/src/loader.lds b/target/linux/ar71xx/image/lzma-loader/src/loader.lds
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index 80cc7ca3ecf53a747fc139560b89c233f4343293..01ff85236147dc62bae480b191a44005171b1561 100644
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--- a/target/linux/ar71xx/image/lzma-loader/src/loader.lds
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+++ b/target/linux/ar71xx/image/lzma-loader/src/loader.lds
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@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ SECTIONS {
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.data : {
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*(.data)
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*(.data.*)
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- . = . + 524288; /* workaround for buggy bootloaders */
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}
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. = ALIGN(32);
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