Both hardware and firmware of these devices appears identical except for the
manufacturers logo and device name. The documented XikeStor SKS8300-8X
installation method is verified to work on the ONTi ONT-S508CL-8S using
Openwrt images made for the XikeStor SKS8300-8X. This includes the OEM boot
loader magic password phrases.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/18071
Signed-off-by: Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net>
XikeStor (Seeker) SKS8300-8X is a 8 ports Multi-Gig switch, based on
RTL9303.
Specification:
- SoC : Realtek RTL9303
- RAM : DDR3 512 MiB
- Flash : SPI-NOR 32 MiB (Winbond W25Q256JVFIQ)
- Ethernet : 8x 1/2.5/10 Gbps (SFP+)
- LEDs/Keys (GPIO): 1x/1x
- UART : "Console" port on the front panel
- type : RS-232C
- connector : RJ-45
- settings : 9600n8
- Watchdog : Diodes PT7A7514WE
- Power : 12 VDC, 2 A
Flash instruction using initramfs image:
1. Prepare TFTP server with an IP address "192.168.2.36"
2. Connect your PC to Port1 on SKS8300-8X
3. Power on SKS8300-8X and interrupt by Ctrl + B
4. Login to the vendor CLI by Ctrl + F and "diagshell_unipoe_env"
5. Login to the U-Boot CLI by "debug_unish_env" command
6. Enable Port1 with the following commands
rtk 10g 0 fiber1g (or fiber10g if 10GBase-*R)
rtk ext-devInit 0
rtk ext-pinSet 2 0
Note: the last command sets tx-disable to low
7. Download initramfs image from TFTP server
tftpboot 0x82000000 <image name>
8. Boot with the downloaded image
bootm
9. On the initramfs image, backup the stock firmware if needed
10. Upload (or download) sysupgrade image to the device
11. Erase "firmware" partition to cleanup JFFS2 of stock FW
mtd erase firmware
12. Perform sysupgrade with the sysupgrade image
13. Wait ~120 sec to complete flashing
Notes:
- A kernel binary "nos.img" needs to be stored into JFFS2 filesystem
using 4KiB erase block instead of 64KiB.
- PT7A7514WE is handled by hardware-assited system LED output
(blinking).
- Some Japanese users asked to XikeStor about maximum power limit of
SFP+ ports and got approximate criteria:
- per port : <= 2.9 W
- total (8 ports): <= 15.8 W
MAC addresses:
eth0 : 84:E5:D8:xx:xx:37 (board-info (stock:"flash_raw"), 0x218 (hex))
(ports): 84:E5:D8:xx:xx:36 (board-info (stock:"flash_raw"), 0x1f1 (hex))
Reverting to stock firmware:
1. Prepare OpenWrt SDK to use the mkfs.jffs2 tool contained in it
Note: the official mkfs.jffs2 tool in mtd-utils doesn't support 4KiB
erase size and not usable for SKS8300-8X
2. Create a directory for working
3. Download official firmware for SKS8300-8X from XikeStor's official
website
4. Rename the downloaded firmware to "nos.img" and place it to the
working directory
5. Create a JFFS2 filesystem binary with the working directory
/path/to/mkfs.jffs2 -p -b -U -v -e 4KiB -x lzma \
-o nos.img.jffs2 -d /path/to/working/dir/
6. Upload the created JFFS2 filesystem binary to the device
7. Erase the "firmware" partition
mtd erase firmware
8. Write the JFFS2 filesystem binary to the "firmware" partition
mtd write /path/to/nos.img.jffs2 firmware
9. After writing, reboot the device by power cycle
Signed-off-by: INAGAKI Hiroshi <musashino.open@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/17593
Signed-off-by: Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net>
The ZyXEL XGS1250-12 has a chassis fan. The fan is positioned perfectly to
provide additional cooling to the Aquantia NBase-T phys. Testing has shown
that the phys can reach temperatures upwards of 72 degrees Celsius quite
easily at about 20 degrees Celsius ambient.
Support the chassis fan to give the phys a bit of extra cooling.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Schramm <tobias@t-sys.eu>
Commit daefc646e6 ("realtek: fix ZyXEL initramfs image generation")
fixed a shell expansion issue with zyxel-vers usage. Commit 045baca10b
("realtek: deduplicate GS1900 recipes") took care of this for the
rtl838x and rtl839x subtargets, but the single device officially
supported in rtl930x - the XGS1250-12 - was overlooked. This commit
updates the XGS1250-12 build recipe as well.
Signed-off-by: Stijn Segers <foss@volatilesystems.org>
Our current Makefiles a little bit messy and can be improved somewhat,
both in whitespace and in style.
Signed-off-by: Olliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl>
The ZyXEL XGS1250-12 Switch is a 11 + 1 port multi-GBit switch with
8 x 1000BaseT, 3 x 1000/2500/5000/10000BaseT Ethernet ports and
1 SFP+ module slot.
Hardware:
- RTL9302B SoC
- Macronix MX25L12833F (16MB flash)
- Nanja NT5CC64M16GP-1 (128MB DDR3 SDRAM)
- RTL8231 GPIO extender to control the port LEDs
- RTL8218D 8x Gigabit PHY
- Aquantia AQR113c 1/2.5/5/10 Gigabit PHYs
- SFP+ 10GBit slot
Power is supplied via a 12V 2A standard barrel connector. At the
right side behind the grid is UART serial connector. A Serial
header can be connected to from the outside of the switch trough
the airvents with a standard 2.54mm header.
Pins are from top to bottom Vcc(3.3V), TX, RX and GND. Serial
connection is via 115200 baud, 8N1.
A reset button is accessble through a hole in the front panel
At the time of this commit, all ethernet ports work under OpenWRT,
including the various NBaseT modes, however the 10GBit SFP+ slot is not
supported.
Installation
--------------
* Connect serial as per the layout above. Connection parameters: 115200 8N1.
* Navigate to 'Management' in the OEM web interface and click on 'Firmware upgrade'
to the left.
* Upload the OpenWrt initramfs image, and wait till the switch reboots.
* Connect to the device through serial and change the U-boot boot command.
> fw_setenv bootcmd 'rtk network on; boota'
* Reboot, scp the sysupgrade image to /tmp, verify the checksum and flash it:
> sysupgrade /tmp/openwrt-realtek-rtl930x-zyxel_xgs1250-12-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
* Upon reboot, you have a functional OpenWrt installation. Leave the bootcmd
value as is - without 'rtk network on' the switch will fail to initialise
the network.
Web recovery
------------
The XGS1250-12 has a handy web recovery that will load when U-boot does
not find a bootable kernel. In case you would like to trigger the web
recovery manually, partially overwrite the firmware partition with some
zeroes:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mtd5 bs=1M count=2
If you have serial connected you'll see U-boot will start the web recovery
and print it's listening on 192.168.1.1, but by default it seems to be on
the OEM default IP for the switch - 192.168.1.3. The web recovery only
listens on HTTP (80) and *not* on 443 (HTTPS) unlike the web UI.
Return to stock
---------------
You can flash the ZyXEL firmware images to return to stock:
# sysupgrade -F -n XGS1250-12_Firmware_V1.00(ABWE.1)C0.bix
Signed-off-by: Birger Koblitz <git@birger-koblitz.de>
