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The bootloader of many Realtek switches only supports gzipped kernel images. With limited flash space that might get critical in future versions. For better compression allow support for compressed images. For this a new loader was developed. Several ideas have been taken over from the existing lzma loader but this has been enhanced to make integration simpler. What is new: - Loader is position independent. No need to define load addresses - Loader identifies device memory on its own - Loader uses "official" upstream kernel lzma uncompress https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/lib/decompress_unlzma.c - Loader uses "official" UNMODIFIED nanoprintg that is used by several bare metal projects. https://github.com/charlesnicholson/nanoprintf Compiled the loader ist just under 12KiB and during boot it will show: rt-loader Found RTL8380M (chip id 6275C) with 256MB Relocate 2924240 bytes from 0x80100000 to 0x8fce0000 Extract kernel with 2900144 bytes from 0x8fce521c to 0x80100000... Extracted kernel size is 9814907 bytes Booting kernel from 0x80100000 ... [ 0.000000] Linux version 6.12.33 ... [ 0.000000] RTL838X model is 83806800 ... Signed-off-by: Markus Stockhausen <markus.stockhausen@gmx.de> Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/18397 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com> |
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OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
Sunshine!
Download
Built firmware images are available for many architectures and come with a package selection to be used as WiFi home router. To quickly find a factory image usable to migrate from a vendor stock firmware to OpenWrt, try the Firmware Selector.
If your device is supported, please follow the Info link to see install instructions or consult the support resources listed below.
An advanced user may require additional or specific package. (Toolchain, SDK, ...) For everything else than simple firmware download, try the wiki download page:
Development
To build your own firmware you need a GNU/Linux, BSD or macOS system (case sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin is unsupported because of the lack of a case sensitive file system.
Requirements
You need the following tools to compile OpenWrt, the package names vary between distributions. A complete list with distribution specific packages is found in the Build System Setup documentation.
binutils bzip2 diff find flex gawk gcc-6+ getopt grep install libc-dev libz-dev
make4.1+ perl python3.7+ rsync subversion unzip which
Quickstart
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Run
./scripts/feeds update -ato obtain all the latest package definitions defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default -
Run
./scripts/feeds install -ato install symlinks for all obtained packages into package/feeds/ -
Run
make menuconfigto select your preferred configuration for the toolchain, target system & firmware packages. -
Run
maketo build your firmware. This will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain and then cross-compile the GNU/Linux kernel & all chosen applications for your target system.
Related Repositories
The main repository uses multiple sub-repositories to manage packages of
different categories. All packages are installed via the OpenWrt package
manager called opkg. If you're looking to develop the web interface or port
packages to OpenWrt, please find the fitting repository below.
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LuCI Web Interface: Modern and modular interface to control the device via a web browser.
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OpenWrt Packages: Community repository of ported packages.
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OpenWrt Routing: Packages specifically focused on (mesh) routing.
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OpenWrt Video: Packages specifically focused on display servers and clients (Xorg and Wayland).
Support Information
For a list of supported devices see the OpenWrt Hardware Database
Documentation
Support Community
- Forum: For usage, projects, discussions and hardware advise.
- Support Chat: Channel
#openwrton oftc.net.
Developer Community
- Bug Reports: Report bugs in OpenWrt
- Dev Mailing List: Send patches
- Dev Chat: Channel
#openwrt-develon oftc.net.
License
OpenWrt is licensed under GPL-2.0