Overview

This repo is maintained by GL.iNet team, which is used to release stock firmware.

Feature

• Support latest device of GL.iNet
• Support kernel driver which isn't support by kernel-tree
• Keep updating with stock firmware

Branches Introduction

• openwrt-18.06-siflower Only supports SF1200

• openwrt-18.06-s1300 Support compiling openwrt firmware for S1300

  If you need to flash OpenWrt firmware on S1300, you need to modify the partition table using the intermediate firmware in this branch

• openwrt-18.06 Compile versions before 3.105 firmware based on this source code

• openwrt-18.06.5 Compile version 3.105 firmware based on this source code

• openwrt-19.07.7 Compile version 3.201 firmware based on this source code

• openwrt-19.07.8 Under development, not recommended

• openwrt-trunk Compile S1300 firmware supporting emmc

For example, if you want to use openwrt-19.07.7 to compile the production firmware, you need to use git checkout openwrt-19.07.7 command to switch openwrt-19.07.7 branch.

Product Branch Relationship Table

Support Branch: Branches that support this product

Official OpenWrt : Official OpenWrt supports this product from the current release

Product	Support Branch	Official OpenWrt	Remark
AR150	openwrt-18.06 openwrt-18.06.5 openwrt-19.07.7	>17.01
MIFI	openwrt-18.06 openwrt-18.06.5 openwrt-19.07.7	>17.01
AR300M	openwrt-18.06 openwrt-18.06.5 openwrt-19.07.7	17.01~19.07(nor)^ >21.02(nor+nand)^
MT300N-V2	openwrt-18.06 openwrt-18.06.5 openwrt-19.07.7	>18.06	GL fireware wifi drivers are closed source, we do not guarantee that OpenWrt drivers are stable
B1300	openwrt-18.06 openwrt-18.06.5 openwrt-19.07.7	>18.06	GL fireware use QSDK, if you use openwrt to compile firmware, there isn't mesh function
USB150	openwrt-18.06 openwrt-18.06.5 openwrt-19.07.7	>18.06
AR750	openwrt-18.06 openwrt-18.06.5 openwrt-19.07.7	>18.06
AR750S	openwrt-18.06 openwrt-18.06.5 openwrt-19.07.7	19.07(nor)^ >21.02(nor+nand)^
X750	openwrt-18.06 openwrt-19.07.7	>19.07
S1300	openwrt-19.07.7(nor)^ openwrt-trunk(emmc)^	>21.02(nor)^
N300	openwrt-18.06 openwrt-19.07.7	>21.02	GL fireware wifi drivers are closed source, we do not guarantee that OpenWrt drivers are stable
X1200	openwrt-18.06 openwrt-19.07.7	N	Must choose ath10k-firmware-qca9888-ct-htt and kmod-ath10k-ct packages
MV1000	openwrt-19.07.7	>21.02
E750	openwrt-18.06 openwrt-19.07.7	>21.02
AP1300	We don't make patch for this project, so you must use the official OpenWrt	>21.02
B2200	openwrt-trunk(emmc)	>21.02
MT1300	openwrt-19.07.7	>21.02	GL fireware wifi drivers are closed source, we do not guarantee that OpenWrt drivers are stable
XE300	openwrt-19.07.7	N
X300B	openwrt-18.06.5 openwrt-19.07.7	N
SF1200
AX1800

^nor: Compiled firmware can only run on nor flash

^nor+nand: Can compile the firmware that runs on nor flash and nand flash

^nor+emmc: Can compile the firmware that runs on nor flash and emmc

Prerequisites

To build your own firmware you need to have access to a Linux, BSD or MacOSX system (case-sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin will not be supported because of the lack of case sensitiveness in the file system. Ubuntu is usually recommended.

Installing Packages

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk gcc-multilib flex git-core gettext libssl-dev

Downloading Source

$ git clone https://github.com/gl-inet/openwrt.git openwrt
$ cd openwrt

Updating Feeds

$ ./scripts/feeds update -a
$ ./scripts/feeds install -a

Note that if you have all the source already, just put them in your openwrt/dl folder and you save time to download resource.

Clear temp buffer

$ rm ./tmp -rf

Compile firmware for NOR flash

Suitable for all products

Select target

Issueing make menuconfig to select a GL.iNet device, for example AR300M.

$ make menuconfig

Please select options as following:

Target System (Atheros AR7xxx/AR9xxx)  --->

Subtarget (Generic)  --->

Target Profile (GL-AR300M)  --->

Then select common software package (as you need),such as USB driver as following,

GL.iNet packages choice shortcut  --->

   [ ] Select basic packages
       Select VPN  --->
   [*] Support storage
   [*] Support USB
   [ ] Support webcam
   [ ] Support rtc

If the package you want to brush depends on the GL base package, please Select Select basic packages as well. Which packages the GL base package contains can be found in config/config-glinet.in

Compile

Simply running make V=s -j5 will build your own firmware. It will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain, the kernel and all choosen applications which is spent on several hours.

$ make V=s -j5

Notice V=s, this parameter is purpose to check info when compile. -j5, this parameter is for choosing the cpu core number, 5 means using 4 cores. If there’s error, please use make V=s -j1 to recompile, and check the error.

Target file location for NOR flash

The final firmware file is bin/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-gl-ar300m-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin so this file is the firmware we need, please update firmware again. Please refer to other instructions for further operations. Such as flash the firmware, etc.

Compile firmware for NAND flash

Applicable to GL-AR300M GL-AR750S GL-E750 GL-X1200 GL-X750

Select target

Issueing make menuconfig to select a GL.iNet device, for example AR300M.

$ make menuconfig

Please select options as following:

Target System (Atheros AR7xxx/AR9xxx)  --->

Subtarget (Generic devices with NAND flash)  --->

Target Profile (GL-AR300M NAND)  --->

Then select common software package (as you need),such as USB driver as following,

GL.iNet packages choice shortcut  --->

   [ ] Select basic packages
       Select VPN  --->
   [*] Support storage
   [*] Support USB
   [ ] Support webcam
   [ ] Support rtc

If the package you want to brush depends on the GL base package, please Select Select basic packages as well. Which packages the GL base package contains can be found in config/config-glinet.in

Compile

Simply running make V=s -j5 will build your own firmware. It will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain, the kernel and all choosen applications which is spent on several hours.

$ make V=s -j5

Notice V=s, this parameter is purpose to check info when compile. -j5, this parameter is for choosing the cpu core number, 5 means using 4 cores. If there’s error, please use make V=s -j1 to recompile, and check the error.

Target file location for NAND flash

The final firmware file is:

bin/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-nand-gl-ar300m-rootfs-squashfs.ubi

bin/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-nand-gl-ar300m-squashfs-sysupgrade.tar

So this file is the firmware we need, please update firmware again. Please refer to other instructions for further operations. Such as flash the firmware, etc.