ath79 porting of NEtgear R6100

[Enrico Mioso]

Hello all!!

Well, sorry, I've been unclear about the fact that this dmesg comes from ar71x.

Thanks Paul for the the hints. I tried looking at similar devices, like the hiveap-121, but s far I had no luck. And so decided it would be best to follow a more "technical" pproach.
Trials and errors worked well in other cases but I guess this time they may not.

Side note: recovery ath79 image is accepted via tftp.



On Mon, 16 Aug 2021, Paul D wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 23:16:54
> From: Paul D <newtwen at gmail.com>
> To: openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
> Subject: Re: ath79 porting of NEtgear R6100
> 
>
>
> On 2021-08-16 17:24, Enrico Mioso wrote:
>> Hello all!!
>> 
>> It's me, again trying to port a device to ath79. And guess where I am stuck 
>> ... in the Ethernet part and switch configuration. :)
>> 
>> The device runs ar71xx, I have the io package installed.
>> 
>> I can get replies from the device, but ping doesn't see them (only 
>> tcpdump), which means something in the timing or data is wrong.
>> 
>> The system is otherwise able to boot.
>> Can you help, maybe poiting me where I can look?
>> At the moment I have no UART access to the system, so I was trying to debug 
>> things in ar71xx and take inspiration looking at the DTS files around.
>> 
>
> My guess is that you forgot the switch config, or DSA support.
>
> Look at similar devices. I guess you need some trial and error.
>
>
> Otherwise, DSA support. Look at other ath79 DSA porting efforts:
>
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/4036
>
>
> I see eth0 and eth1 in the bootlog, so that's a good thing.
>
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