Mounting bootable image file under linux with offset

Use fdisk to see the partitions and their offset of the image file:

# fdisk -l router-devuan-jessie-diskless-2017.img
Disk router-devuan-jessie-diskless-2017.img: 3.7 GiB, 3980394496 bytes, 7774208 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x7b19da02

Device                                                 Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
router-devuan-jessie-diskless-2017.img    *     2048 7772159 7770112  3.7G 83 Linux

According to fdisk each sector of the image has 512 bytes. We need that so we can calculate the right offset when mounting it.

The image has one linux partition starting at offset of 2048. The right offset is 512*2048.

Here is how to mount it:

# mount -o loop,offset=$((2048*512)) router-devuan-jessie-diskless-2017.img /mnt/

Mediatek LinkIt Smart 7688 with DHT22/11 sensor on custom LEDE/OpenWRT image

Examples will be with LEDE-Project latest sources from git.

check-humidity-7688 is a fork of Onion Omega2p checkHumidity which reads temperature values directly from memory.

We need LEDE Project / OpenWRT source configured for LinkIt Smart 7688 and compiled at least once. Kernel should be compiled with /dev/mem support as this is the way check-humidity-7688 works.

The checkHumidity binary should work on mediatek 7688 without problems but if you need to recompile it for different arch/platform here is how it is done:

getting the source and compiling it:

$ git clone https://github.com/devane/check-humidity-7688
$ cd check-humidity-7688
$ make clean
$ sh xCompile.sh -buildroot /home/user/lede

Cleaning...
 rm -f -r build bin
 /home/user/lede/staging_dir/toolchain-mipsel_24kc_gcc-5.4.0_musl/bin/mipsel-openwrt-linux-g++ -c -g  -I include -c -o build/fastgpioomega2.o src/fastgpioomega2.cpp
 /home/user/lede/staging_dir/toolchain-mipsel_24kc_gcc-5.4.0_musl/bin/mipsel-openwrt-linux-g++ -c -g  -I include -c -o build/main.o src/main.cpp
 /home/user/lede/staging_dir/toolchain-mipsel_24kc_gcc-5.4.0_musl/bin/mipsel-openwrt-linux-g++ -c -g  -I include -c -o build/module.o src/module.cpp
 /home/user/lede/staging_dir/toolchain-mipsel_24kc_gcc-5.4.0_musl/bin/mipsel-openwrt-linux-g++ -c -g  -I include -c -o build/dht_read.o src/dht_read.cpp
 /home/user/lede/staging_dir/toolchain-mipsel_24kc_gcc-5.4.0_musl/bin/mipsel-openwrt-linux-g++ -c -g  -I include -c -o build/common_dht_read.o src/common_dht_read.cpp
 Linking...
 /home/user/lede/staging_dir/toolchain-mipsel_24kc_gcc-5.4.0_musl/bin/mipsel-openwrt-linux-g++ build/fastgpioomega2.o build/main.o build/module.o build/dht_read.o build/common_dht_read.o -o bin/checkHumidity

We can check if it is compiled for the right architecture:

$ file bin/checkHumidity
bin/checkHumidity: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, MIPS, MIPS32 rel2 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-musl-mipsel-sf.so.1, with debug_info, not stripped

Now just copy the binary on your mt7688 and it should work just fine.

Notes:

xCompile.sh is a shell script (included in source) from MediaTek documentation page on how to cross-compile your own program. You should only point where is the source of the LEDE-Project / OpenWRT with -buildroot option.

Wiring diagram connecting DHT11 sensor to LinkIt Smart 7688, signal (data) wire is connected to pin 26 - GPIO19.

DHT11 Pinout

Example output of checkHumidity:

root@LEDE:~# ./checkHumidity 19 DHT11
33.000000
26.000000