[PATCH v1 2/2] ARM: BCM5301X: Add DT for Meraki MR26

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 14:52:50 PDT 2022


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!
-- 
Florian



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