ipq40xx-generic: add extreme-networks-ws-ap3915i

[seilpforte]

• Must be flashable from vendor firmware
  • Web interface
  • TFTP
  • Other:
• Must support upgrade mechanism
  • Must have working sysupgrade
    • Must keep/forget configuration (sysupgrade [-n], firstboot)
  • Gluon profile name matches autoupdater image name
    (lua -e 'print(require("platform_info").get_image_name())')
• Reset/WPS/... button must return device into config mode
• Primary MAC address should match address on device label (or packaging)
  (https://gluon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/hardware.html#hardware-support-in-packages)
  • When re-adding a device that was supported by an earlier version of Gluon, a
    factory reset must be performed before checking the primary MAC address, as
    the setting from the old version is not reset otherwise.
• Wired network
  • should support all network ports on the device
  • must have correct port assignment (WAN/LAN)
    • if there are multiple ports but no WAN port:
      • the PoE input should be WAN, all other ports LAN
      • otherwise the first port should be declared as WAN, all other ports LAN
• Wireless network (if applicable)
  • Association with AP must be possible on all radios
  • Association with 802.11s mesh must work on all radios
  • AP+mesh mode must work in parallel on all radios
• LED mapping
  • Power/system LED
    • Lit while the device is on
    • Should display config mode blink sequence
      (https://gluon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features/configmode.html)
  • Radio LEDs
    • Should map to their respective radio
    • Should show activity
  • Switch port LEDs
    • Should map to their respective port (or switch, if only one led present)
    • Should show link state and activity
• Outdoor devices only:
  • Added board name to is_outdoor_device function in package/gluon-core/luasrc/usr/lib/lua/gluon/platform.lua
• Cellular devices only:
  • Added board name to is_cellular_device function in package/gluon-core/luasrc/usr/lib/lua/gluon/platform.lua
  • Added board name with modem setup function setup_ncm_qmi to package/gluon-core/luasrc/lib/gluon/upgrade/250-cellular
• Docs:
  • Added Device to docs/user/supported_devices.rst

Primary MAC Adress is: ca:b2:ef:60:c6:63
Eth0 MAC is: dc:b8:08:72:a2:ad
Label MAC is: dc:b8:08:72:a2:ad

Keeps forgetting config after any sysupgrade

[maurerle]

This looks like a related thread with a possible solution:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/ws-ap3915i-settings-lost-upgrading-23-05-0-23-05-2/179770

setting BLOCKSIZE := 64k for the sysupgrades instead..?

also documented in the wiki:

If upgrading an AP3915i from the AP3915i-only OpenWRT image, you will lose configuration!

https://openwrt.org/toh/extreme_networks_ws_ap391x?s[]=ap3915i

Ref: openwrt/openwrt#17305

[blocktrron]

Primary MAC also needs to be fixed in order to consider merging.

[maurerle]

Should this be fixed through label-mac in openwrt or through 010-mac-address in gluon?

[blocktrron]

Preferably this should be fixed in openwrt if possible.

[maurerle]

We tried a few things in openwrt:
openwrt/openwrt#17305

We could fix the BLOCKSIZE issue - making sysupgrades keep the config.
However I could not set the label-mac based on the OpenWRT output.

I tried:
label_mac="$(mtd_get_mac_ascii CFG1 ethaddr)" - during the running system, this shows the correct macaddress.
This is also how it was done for the ws-ap3710i
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/e321e70ddcd82e0b4a5ad695b83a88d44cde02b4/target/linux/mpc85xx/base-files/etc/board.d/02_network#L21

However it did not work yet.

Snippet:

. /lib/functions.sh
mtd_get_mac_ascii CFG1 ethaddr

I also tried different variants of adding label-mac-device = &eth0; to the dts, which somehow did not exist though.

Eventually this is related to something being broken for ipq40xx (as mentioned in #3389) - so I could need a hint here what to try :)

. /lib/functions.sh
. /lib/functions/system.sh
echo $(get_mac_label)

This snippet shows the correct label, so my assumption that this would change immediatly was just wrong.
With the mentioned PR everything is fine.

So this is blocked waiting on upstream.

[maurerle]

If main is bumped to the latest openwrt 24.10, this is ready.
The upstream fixes ar merged and backported:
openwrt/openwrt#17305

[rotanid]

@maurerle can you please rebase and test again, there seems to be a linter issue

[maurerle]

Tested again after rebase - fixed the wrong spacing.
Is ready from my side :)

[Djfe]

@seilpforte can you update the check list, please? (primary mac and must/keep forget configuration are both working now)

I just want to avoid confusion as this checklist counts as some form of documentation

[maurerle]

More important, we forgot to add it to the supported devices list :(

[rotanid]

i edited the checklist. can't do the supported devices atm.