[LEDE-DEV] ar71xx v4.4 testing
Felix Fietkau
nbd at nbd.name
Sat May 14 12:59:45 PDT 2016
On 2016-05-14 21:32, Hannu Nyman wrote:
> On 14.5.2016 21:33, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> On 2016-05-14 12:56, Hannu Nyman wrote:
>>> Sorry but no beef. I still end up in a reboot loop with my WNDR3800.
>>> I applied your two 4.4. patches manually to my sources.
>>>
>>> As far as I could see from the LEDs, the router reboots before the failsafe
>>> entrance point is reached. Behaviour looks similar as before your patches. (I
>>> have been compiling and trying 4.4 monthly ever since nbd introduced 4.4
>>> support for ar71xx initially and so far every attempt has been a reboot loop.)
>> Please try the updated version from my staging tree, it should work now:
>> http://git.lede-project.org/lede/nbd/staging.git
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Felix
>
> Thanks, Felix.
> Your patch fixed booting for me. I applied your commit
> 60069b2270882d70069a2da3664e87791f9b76c3 on top of John's two patches, as
> they did not seem to conflict. The router booted ok after the flash.
>
> (note that in patch 620-... Felix hardcoded the value 3 instead of using
> QCA953X_DDR_REG_FLUSH_PCIE (and _WMAC), while John fixed those symbols'
> values in his changes to the patch 620-... and in the new patch 480-... )
>
> However, a negative symptom is that the radios are disabled. I did not apply
> your new mac80211 patch, so that might be a reason. "wifi detect" produces no
> output. I haven't tried to debug that any further, but just wanted to tell
> that the WNDR3800 router finally boots with kernel 4.4, so the changes from
> Felix are to the right direction.
Please use the commits from my staging tree as-is and skip John's patches.
- Felix
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