I2SE Duckbill

Tiny USB pen drive like device which can be used as controller for Home Automation and/or as developer board. Vendor offers versions with several RF add-ons, e.g. WM-Bus or Z-Wave.

Please add the installation procedure here.

At time of writing not all patches are merged into OpenWrt's mainline yet. So the following scripts still use some external references.

First, compile U-Boot and OpenWrt. You can use the following script:

#!/bin/bash
#
# This script downloads OpenWrt MXS target and U-Boot and compiles for
# I2SE' Duckbill device.
#

# clone repository and checkout mxs branch
git clone git@github.com:mhei/openwrt.git openwrt.git
( cd openwrt.git; git checkout -b mxs origin/mxs )

# create a default config for I2SE's Duckbill device
cat <<EOF > openwrt.git/.config
CONFIG_TARGET_mxs=y
CONFIG_TARGET_mxs_duckbill=y
EOF

make -C openwrt.git defconfig

# compile all
make -C openwrt.git -j8

# clone u-boot repository and checkout duckbill branch
git clone git@github.com:mhei/u-boot.git u-boot.git
( cd u-boot.git; git checkout -b duckbill origin/duckbill )

# tweak environment for u-boot cross-compiling by using OpenWrt's toolchain
TS_PATH="$(pwd)/openwrt.git/staging_dir/toolchain-arm_v5te_gcc-4.6-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2_eabi/bin"
export CROSS_COMPILE="arm-openwrt-linux-"
export PATH="$TS_PATH:$PATH"

make -C u-boot.git duckbill_config
make -C u-boot.git -j8 u-boot.sb

u-boot.git/tools/mxsboot sd u-boot.git/u-boot.sb u-boot.git/bootpart

After this, you could use the following script for preparing a SD card with the OpenWrt's default SD card layout.

#!/bin/bash
#
# This script installs OpenWrt on a SD card for a I2SE Duckbill device.
#
# Attention: this script destroys all data on the device!
# Use at your own risk.
#
SDCARD=/dev/sdd

#
# Attention: the following deletes all partitions from the SD card
# and re-partition the SD card into 3 primary partitions:
# Partition 1: boot partition for U-Boot
# Partition 2: OpenWrt system 1
# Partition 3: OpenWrt system 2
#
fdisk "$SDCARD" <<EOF
o
n
p
1
2048
+1M
n
p
2
4096
+48M
n
p
3
102400
+48M
t
1
53
p
w
EOF

# write boot partition
dd if=u-boot.git/bootpart of=${SDCARD}1 conv=fsync

# write image 1
dd if=openwrt.git/bin/mxs/openwrt-mxs-root.ext4 of=${SDCARD}2 conv=fsync

# write image 2
dd if=openwrt.git/bin/mxs/openwrt-mxs-root.ext4 of=${SDCARD}3 conv=fsync

1. Partition 1: boot partition for U-Boot
2. Partition 2: OpenWrt system 1
3. Partition 3: OpenWrt system 2

Not yet supported. However, the SD card layout is prepared for “safe-upgrade”. That means that you can write the update to a second partition, leaving the currently running system alone, and then switch over to the new system by setting a flag in the bootloader. See next chapter for details.

• Login as root via SSH on 192.168.1.1
• Determine whether you run system 1 or 2 at the moment: if “cat /proc/cmdline” contains “root=/dev/mmcblk0p2” then you are running system 1 and have to write the new firmware into system 2 (/dev/mmcblk0p3). Use /dev/mmcblk0p2 when you are running the system 1 at the moment.
• Use the following commands to write the partiton image:

cd /tmp/
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/mxs/openwrt-mxs-root.ext4
dd if=openwrt-mxs-root.ext4 of=/dev/mmcblk0p3 conv=fsync

• Now tell U-Boot to use the other system (adopt according to your current system) and reboot:

fw_setenv bootsys 2
reboot

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