ramips: disable build TP-Link EAP235-Wall
authorShiji Yang <[email protected]>
Sun, 26 Oct 2025 09:30:29 +0000 (17:30 +0800)
committerRobert Marko <[email protected]>
Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:33:17 +0000 (10:33 +0100)
After investigating the EAP235-Wall u-boot GPL code, it was found that
the u-boot of this device directly loads the kernel from the SPI NOR
Flash direct access address. However, due to hardware limitation, MT7621
can only remap the first 4MiB Flash. Excluding some partitions before
the kernel, this device can only boot kernels smaller than 0x360000.
This means that unless you install a modified bootloader, the mainline
OpenWrt will no longer work on this model.

Closes: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/20500
Signed-off-by: Shiji Yang <[email protected]>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/20509
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <[email protected]>
target/linux/ramips/image/mt7621.mk

index 9bbee68f6b5606d0c6ea54e8cbc731d5a6e0c8b3..a957b5721ebd342507807580bc49044efe9816f3 100644 (file)
@@ -2910,6 +2910,7 @@ define Device/tplink_eap235-wall-v1
   IMAGE_SIZE := 13440k
   IMAGE/factory.bin := append-rootfs | tplink-safeloader factory | \
        pad-extra 128
+  DEFAULT := n
 endef
 TARGET_DEVICES += tplink_eap235-wall-v1