[PATCH v1 2/2] ARM: BCM5301X: Add DT for Meraki MR26
Christian Lamparter
chunkeey at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 15:20:36 PDT 2022
On 17/06/2022 23:52, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 6/16/22 10:30, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 06:59:48PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>>> Meraki MR26 is an EOL wireless access point featuring a
>>> PoE ethernet port and two dual-band 3x3 MIMO 802.11n
>>> radios and 1x1 dual-band WIFI dedicated to scanning.
>>>
>>> Thank you Amir for the unit and PSU.
>>>
>>> Hardware info:
>>> SOC : Broadcom BCM53015A1KFEBG (dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU at 800 MHz)
>>> RAM : H5TQ1G63EFR, SK hynix Inc. 1Gb DDR3 SDRAM = 128 MiB
>>> NAND : S34ML01G100TF100, S34ML01G1 1 Gb Spansion SLC NAND Flash = 128 MiB
>>> ETH : 1GBit Ethernet Port - PoE (TPS23754 PoE Interface)
>>>
>>> WIFI0 : Broadcom BCM43431KMLG, BCM43431 802.11 abgn (3x3:3)
>>> WIFI1 : Broadcom BCM43431KMLG, BCM43431 802.11 abgn (3x3:3)
>>> WIFI2 : Broadcom BCM43428 802.11 abgn (1x1:1)
>>> BUTTON: one reset button
>>> LEDS : one amber (fault), one white (indicator) LED, separate RGB-LED.
>>> MISC : Atmel AT24C64 8KiB EEPROM i2c
>>> : Ti INA219 26V, 12-bit, i2c output current/voltage/power monitor
>>>
>>> SERIAL:
>>> WARNING: The serial port needs a TTL/RS-232 3V3 level converter!
>>> The Serial setting is 115200-8-N-1. The board has a populated
>>> right angle 1x4 0.1" pinheader.
>>> The pinout is: VCC (next to J3, has the pin 1 indicator), RX, TX, GND.
>>>
>>> Odd stuff:
>>>
>>> - uboot does not support lzma compression, but gzip'd uImage/DTB work.
>>> - uboot claims to support FIT, but fails to pass the DTB to the kernel.
>>> Appending the dtb after the kernel image works.
>>> - RGB-controller is supported through an external userspace program.
>>> - The ubi partition contains a "board-config" volume. It stores the
>>> MAC Address (0x66 in binary) and Serial No. (0x7c alpha-numerical).
>>> - SoC's temperature sensor always reports that it is on fire.
>>> This causes the system to immediately shutdown! Looking at reported
>>> "418 degree Celsius" suggests that this sensor is not working.
>>>
>>> WIFI:
>>> b43 is able to initialize all three WIFIs @ 802.11bg.
>>> | b43-phy0: Broadcom 43431 WLAN found (core revision 29)
>>> | bcma-pci-bridge 0000:01:00.0: bus1: Switched to core: 0x812
>>> | b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 9, Type 7 (HT), Revision 1
>>> | b43-phy0: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, ID 0x2059, Revision 0, Version 1
>>> | b43-phy0 warning: 5 GHz band is unsupported on this PHY
>>> | b43-phy1: Broadcom 43431 WLAN found (core revision 29)
>>> | bcma-pci-bridge 0001:01:00.0: bus2: Switched to core: 0x812
>>> | b43-phy1: Found PHY: Analog 9, Type 7 (HT), Revision 1
>>> | b43-phy1: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, ID 0x2059, Revision 0, Version 1
>>> | b43-phy1 warning: 5 GHz band is unsupported on this PHY
>>> | b43-phy2: Broadcom 43228 WLAN found (core revision 30)
>>> | bcma-pci-bridge 0002:01:00.0: bus3: Switched to core: 0x812
>>> | b43-phy2: Found PHY: Analog 9, Type 4 (N), Revision 16
>>> | b43-phy2: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, ID 0x2057, Revision 9, Version 1
>>> | Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: NL ]
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> |WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?
>>> |#89:
>>> |new file mode 100644
>>>
>>> MAINTAINERS has:
>>>
>>>> BROADCOM BCM5301X ARM ARCHITECTURE
>>>> [...]
>>>> F: arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm5301*
>>>
>>> |WARNING: DT compatible string "atmel,24c64" appears un-documented \
>>> |-- check ./Documentation/devicetree/bindings/
>>> |#245: FILE: arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm53015-meraki-mr26.dts:152:
>>> |+ compatible = "atmel,24c64";
>>>
>>> weird, it should match what is in:
>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.yaml
>>
>> This checkpatch check is a hack dating back to before we had schemas. It
>> just greps the tree for the compatible string, but that doesn't work
>> since it's a pattern now.
>>
>> What you should pay attention to is 'make dtbs_check' for this dts file
>> though that is still pretty noisy for existing platforms. It will be
>> accurate for what's not documented with a schema.
>>
>> I haven't removed the checkpatch check because I imagine folks run
>> checkpatch, but not schema checks still, and the check also looks at .c
>> files which I don't have a solution for. What I want to do is extract
>> all struct of_device_id instances and compare them against all schema
>> compatibles. I'm not sure how to do that exactly. Use the DWARF info to
>> get all the structs perhaps. Another way is using the modinfo, but not
>> everything is a module.
>
> Christian, if you can respin quickly addressing Rob's feedback I can take these patches for 5.20, thanks!
The key-restart? yes, I've sent v2. Thank you!
But getting "dtbs_check" to be less noisy will require lots of work.
I see what I can deliver though :).
Regards,
Christian
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