Add support for ASUS RT-AX89X AX6000

remittor · 2024-02-20T03:57:57.583Z

napierzaza:

## Flattened Device Tree from multi component Image at 4B000000
   Booting using the fdt at 0x4ff67bd4
ERROR: image is not a fdt - must RESET the board to recover.
Could not find a valid device tree
resetting ...

Thanks for the logs! Thanks to you, I found an error in the code of my utility mkasustrx!
Today I will fix it.

Reason for error: FDT image must be aligned to an 8-byte address.

napierzaza · 2024-02-20T05:38:29.997Z

Okay awesome. I am glad that I captured the correct logs for you to find it. Much appreciated.

remittor · 2024-02-21T10:51:49.159Z

remittor:

Today I will fix it.

The fix was not easy! But everything worked out:
https://github.com/openwrt-xiaomi/openwrt/commit/f25b0acb8f21d0fc862ff5d5ec9c609e6b69a81e#diff-b3afd9d94ac53d0ac9bf36931d9c62e592be67f8c64114566e4a74daf249ec34R99-R108

napierzaza · 2024-02-23T03:13:53.731Z

I tried the Feb 21 sysupgrade and it worked perfectly!

ACwifidude · 2024-03-03T19:43:46.638Z

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remittor · 2024-03-11T08:31:08.898Z

To set a fixed fan speed, you need to add a few lines to file rc.local (LuCI -> System -> Startup):

for file in /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/mode; do
  echo disabled > "$file";
done
echo 1600 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/fan1_target

napierzaza · 2024-03-14T22:03:42.579Z

@remittor qq I am updating my device when I see them in the Google drive. Are they just updates from OpenWRT main branch or are they specific updates to the x89x software?

Gin1AK-tion1 · 2024-03-14T23:24:09.696Z

Add support for ASUS RT-AX89X AX6000 For Developers

Only @robimarko can tell you something useful in this matter. For this router there will be no firmware version 23.xx at all! The main maintainers decided to move the linux kernel from version 6.1(5.15) to 6.6 this year. Because of this circumstance, there may not be a release of the OpenWRT this year at all (so many maintainers think so).

Unless otherwise specified, It is going to be a long time before we will see official OpenWRT firmware for this device.

shmerl · 2024-03-14T23:32:52.618Z

Can you please elaborate what remains the main blocker for releasing it sooner? I.e. something needs work or it relies on changes that won't land until much later?

Gin1AK-tion1 · 2024-03-15T18:09:33.232Z

well, to go more into a bit detail, I thin the OpenWRT maintainers are doing a "all hands on deck" to changing all the routers they support from whatever kernel they are on now to kernel 6.1 or 6.6

As much as I would like to see the RT-AX89X "rock n roll" with OpenWRT, I think all we can do is wait.

heres to hoping we see it very soon on the "stable builds" downloads folder

remittor · 2024-03-16T06:01:50.737Z

Gin1AK-tion1:

very soon on the "stable builds" downloads folder

I am convinced that version 24.XX.0 (or 25.XX.0) will have to wait a very long time.

slh · 2024-03-16T09:11:43.746Z

23.05.0, while branched in late May, has only been released in mid October. According to the usual cadence of a bit over a year between releases, this -with kernel v6.1- would be a bit early (yes, there is quite some staging new hardware support and some breaking changes (DSA for ipq806x, {,sub}target rename for qualcommax/ipq807x, lots of work on filogic 820/ 830, ~830, qualcommax/ipq60xx is already knocking at the door (mostly waiting for QCA to formally publish a working wireless firmware)), but other aspects of OpenWrt still need to catch up (mbedtls, hostapd, the kernel for the older targets, …).

So yes, 24.xy.0 (and that may very well become 25.xy.0) will take a while, but probably less because of the (not really formally final yet) switch to kernel v6.6 instead of v6.1, just more because of the rest of the system. We're already seeing a flurry of activity to port the popular/ newer targets to v6.6 - so I would expect most of the targets that are on v6.1 now, to be on v6.6 very soon. The real efforts will be necessary for the older and less actively maintained targets, but those have only gotten attention for v6.1 very recently or are still on v5.15 now. Yes, a switch to kernel v6.6 will have 'some' impact on the release schedule, but less than you seem to imply (perhaps ~1-2 months). It's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Yes, running main snapshots is not for everyone, but once your device becomes available in main, it will be usable and will (very likely) be part of the next stable release, whatever that will be called.

Disclaimer: this is just extrapolating from recent history and keeping an eye on the development, I'm obviously not an OpenWrt developer, nor have any inside information, nor speaking for the project.

Shadowdream · 2024-06-14T16:19:08.200Z

Hi, can you help me out with this fan setting?
I have the issue that my model turns off the fan shortly after boot (even before luci is running). One temp sensor (gpio008) runs around 92 degrees C, so I think I should get that fan running again.

I have added this line to my startup, but it did not help. I then changed the folder from hwmon0 to hwmon1 because there I found fan-related files, including fan1_target. But after boot the fan is off again.
Editing them manually does not work, for some reason. The values are noted as saved, but upon re-opening the file it has reverted to zero.

I am running on snapshot 240317 master, which is the latest I could find.

Gin1AK-tion1 · 2024-06-17T21:12:07.296Z

probably better off waiting for the official firmware to come out first. So as of right now, probably got about 6 more months to go before the OpenWRT developers start making official firmware for this router.

Shadowdream · 2024-06-21T22:41:24.299Z

Mhm, it sure is the safest bet for getting a functioning firmware.
I'm just thinking, this is clearly a bug, that I should report/mention. It strikes me, especially because there seems to be a process overriding any fix I come up with. As I said earlier, the fan speed values can be edited, but they get reset shortly after again. Even changing chmod to read only does not prevent this. Weird.

So far I have not encountered any other issue, which probably is a good sign in terms of quickly porting it to the new firmware. I sure am looking forwards to it

remittor · 2024-06-24T05:58:37.713Z

Gin1AK-tion1:

So as of right now, probably got about 6 more months to go before the OpenWRT developers start making official firmware for this router.

This may not happen for this reason:

remittor:

A FIT-images will cause an error.

OpenWRT developers are very strange people and can simply refuse to build old uImage for a ARM64 platform.

Gin1AK-tion1 · 2024-06-25T10:14:20.394Z

So you mean to tell me that my donation turned out to be in vain?

As in, I will never ever see this router have official OpenWRT support?

And that I am to rely on some developers like yourself to make "unofficial OpenWRT" Firmware for this router?

I take it this is why we see the Netgear R9000 still without official OpenWRT support?

robimarko · 2024-06-25T10:36:37.198Z

R9000 is using the first gen Annapurna Labs (These days an Amazon silicon vendor) SoC which is completely unsupported upstream (Whatever basic support was there was removed many versions ago) so whatever version they got to work is just SDK drivers forward ported so there is no chance for it to ever be official.

Gin1AK-tion1 · 2024-06-25T10:48:37.576Z

But what about the Asus RT-AX89X router? its never really going to see official OpenWRT support?

robimarko · 2024-06-25T10:49:45.606Z

No reason for it not to, once a sane way of packaging images that the stupid stock bootloader wants is figured out as the rest works fine