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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 2014 17:30:03 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To:        Milan Obuch <freebsd-mips@dino.sk>
Cc:        "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: db120 (mips74k) boot messages; further help wanted
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Hi,

What did we try? We did fix the AR8327 version id stuff, so now it's
the MDIO stability that's the problem.

Try arge_reset_miibus() - you could override mdio_div with different
values of MAC_MII_CFG_CLOCK_DIV_* values.


-a


On 16 March 2014 14:33, Milan Obuch <freebsd-mips@dino.sk> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 01:46:05 -0700
> Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Now that I've mostly finished the DB120 port and Sean's working on the
>> DIR-825 (rev C1) port, I thought I'd just give a boot example of this
>> platform.
>>
>
> On RB2011 it works too, but network part is still a problem I did not
> solve.
>
>> It's quite a sweet mips board. I haven't yet booted a full rootfs via
>> USB; that's what I'll do tomorrow or Monday. I'll start stress testing
>> the userland and VM then. But it works great as an AP.
>>
>> https://code.google.com/p/freebsd-wifi-build/wiki/AtherosReferenceDB120
>>
>> I'm hoping the DIR-825 C1 port will be just as stable as the DB120 is
>> for me.
>>
>> Now, the missing bits:
>>
>> * NAND flash controller - I'm making a start on this now;
>
> That's great, keep us informed - I will test it on my RB2011 too.
>
>> * I2S - I'll port this over afterward, so we can have sound on boards
>> that ship with sound;
>> * AR8327 VLAN (tagged and per-port) support - someone else will have
>> to crime this from openwrt. I may eventually get around to it, but
>> it'll take some time. I don't currently use the VLAN stuff at home and
>> I haven't yet set this up as a router gateway so I don't need the
>> LAN/WAN port distinction.
>>
>
> Well, as Atheros934x SoC has actually two network intefaces (arge0 and
> arge1), you could use them for outer/inner interface, even if it does
> not make it to the full use of device. Anyway, I would like to play
> with vlan support, unfortunately mdio does not yet work for me yet.
> Sometimes it works and switch looks to be recognised correctly, but
> even then it is not properly initialised and no network traffic passes
> through. The same is valid for both external and intenal switch.
>
>> Thanks to Hiren/Sean for persevering on the DIR-825 rev C1 board port.
>> The config files and build script stuff should be committed in various
>> places in the next couple of days.
>>
>
> I would be happy to post my configs and have them in src tree, but it
> is not yet ready. Network must work reliably first.
>
> Regards,
> Milan



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