The TP-Link TL-ST1008F is an 8-port multi-gig switch with 8x SFP+ ports
which support 1G/2.5G/10G speeds. Out of the box it is an unmanaged
switch but with RTL9303 and sufficient RAM + Flash it easily can run as
a managed Linux switch.
Hardware:
- Realtek RTL9303 Switch SoC
- Winbond 25Q256JVFQ (32MB flash)
- Samsung K4B4G1646E-BYMA (512MB DDR3 SDRAM)
- TCA9534 GPIO extender to control the port LEDs
- 8x SFP+ 1/2.5/10G slot
- Serial: 3V3 logic, 115200 8N1
- 5-pin JTAG
- physical tri-state switch (used by stock firmware for port speed
config)
- 24-LED port speed matrix
- robust full-metal case
Power is supplied via a 12V 2A standard barrel connector.
There are THT holes on the PCB for serial console next to the flash chip
and JTAG pads. Serial uses 3V3 logic and standard 115200-8N1 config.
Pinout is labeled on the PCB.
All ports/connectors and LEDs are on the back, only Power LED is on the
front.
Hints before flashing
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* It is recommended to backup the stock flash contents before proceeding.
Backup can be done from U-Boot (with memory display), from OpenWrt
initramfs or probably with SPI flash programmer.
There is no stock recovery functionality.
* Use a small image for RAM boot or first flash. Since you need to use
ymodem, this is really slow and takes time.
* This does not keep the dual-partition layout for firmware to have more
space available for a single OpenWrt installation.
Initial flashing
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The stock U-boot has broken networking thus no TFTP available. Serial
transfer only.
1. Open device and connect serial as per layout and settings
(recommended to use picocom, ymodem not working with minicom)
2. Connect power to device and press Esc when prompted to enter
the U-Boot console.
3. Boot initramfs
* in the U-Boot console:
loady 0x82000000 (load OpenWrt image via ymodem)
CTRL-A CTRL-S <initramfs.bin> (specify initramfs image for
picocom to upload)
bootm 0x82000000 (boot initramfs from RAM)
(Just to be on the safe side, backup your flash now while RAM-booted)
4. Connect network to your device
5. Upload the sysupgrade image (e.g. with scp)
6. Do sysupgrade
There's no need to adjust the bootcmd in U-Boot. Networking is running
fine once the realtek driver initialized everything in OpenWrt. No
functional difference with running 'rtk network on' within U-Boot
before. Running this even fails and returns with an error.
Return to stock
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This only works if you did a backup of the flash before flashing
OpenWrt. Stock dump then can be flashed from within U-Boot or OpenWrt.
There is no vendor firmware image because this is an unmanaged switch!
CAUTION: Make sure to not overwrite the U-Boot partition(s). If you do
not have a flash programmer, you may not be able to debrick
your device then.
Co-authored-by: Balázs Triszka <balika011@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>
General hardware info:
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D-Link DGS-1210-28P rev. F1 is a switch with 24 ethernet ports and 4
combo ports, all ports Gbit capable. It is based on a RTL8382 SoC
@500MHz, DRAM 128MB and 32MB flash. 24 ethernet ports are 802.3af/at PoE
capable with a total PoE power budget of 193W.
Power over Ethernet:
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The PSE hardware consists of three BCM59121 PSE chips, serving 8 ports
each. They are controlled by a Nuvoton MCU. In order to enable PoE, the
realtek-poe package is required. It is installed by default, but
currently it requires the manual editing of /etc/config/poe. Keep in
mind that the port number assignment does not match on this switch,
alway 8 ports are in reversed order: 8-1, 16-9 and 24-17.
LEDs and Buttons:
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On stock firmware, the mode button is supposed to switch the LED
indicators of all port LEDs between Link Activity and PoE status. The
currently selected mode is visualized using the respective LEDs. PoE Max
indicates that the maximum PoE budget has been reached. Since there is
currently no support for this behavior, these LEDs and the mode button
can be used independently.
Serial connection:
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The UART for the SoC (115200 8N1) is available via unpopulated standard
0.1" pin header marked J6. Pin1 is marked with arrow and square.
Pin 1: Vcc 3.3V
Pin 2: Tx
Pin 3: Rx
Pin 4: Gnd
OEM installation from Web Interface:
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1. Make sure you are booting using OEM in image 2 slot. If not,
switch to
image2 using the menus
System > Firmware Information > Boot from image2
Tools > reboot
2. Upload image in vendor firmware via Tools > Backup / Upgrade
Firmware > image1
3. Toggle startup image via System > Firmware Information > Boot
from
image1
4. Tools > reboot
Other installation methods not tested, but since the device shares the
board with the DGS-1210-28, the following should work:
Boot initramfs image from U-Boot:
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1. Press Escape key during `Hit Esc key to stop autoboot` prompt
2. Press CTRL+C keys to get into real U-Boot prompt
3. Init network with `rtk network on` command
4. Load image with `tftpboot 0x8f000000
openwrt-rtl838x-generic-d-link_dgs-1210-28p-f-initramfs-kernel.bin`
command
5. Boot the image with `bootm` command
Signed-off-by: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/15938
Signed-off-by: Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net>
The DGS-1210-28MP has a LM63 fan controller connected via i2c of the
RTL8231. The clock line is always low if the property
i2c-gpio,scl-open-drain is not set; with this property, the GPIO pin is
force-drive and the clock works as expected.
The LM63 is not configured by U-Boot, thus only manual fan control is
possible by settings pwm1_enable to "1" and writing the desired values to
pwm1.
The OEM firmware drives the fan from user mode and sets it up like this:
// PWM LUT/value r/w, PWM Clock = 1.4kHz
0x4a 0x28
// Tachometer spinup disabled, spin-up cycles bypassed
0x4b 0x00
// PWM Frequency = default
0x4d 0x17
// PWM Value (28)
0x4c 0x1c
// If > 0 C, use
0x50 0x00
// PWM = 28
0x51 0x1c
// If > 51 C, use
0x52 0x33
// PWM = 44
0x53 0x2e
// Set hysteresis to 100 = default
0x4f 0x03
// Turn on automatic mode and w/p the LUT values
0x4a 0x08
A thread in the OEM firmware polls the ALERT status register for fan
failures.
Unfortunately, the lm63 kernel driver does not perform any initialization
of the chip and it does not support changing some config registers (like
PWM frequency or LUT). Hence, we are stuck with the defaults and need to do
fan control in software.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Böhler <dev@aboehler.at>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/15616
Signed-off-by: Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net>
Jonas Jelonek
Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca
Andreas Böhler