db120 (mips74k) boot messages; further help wanted

[Milan Obuch]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 02:00:25 -0700
Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Noone has yet. I'd pay attention to the MDIO reset, MDIO configuration
> stuff in if_arge.c and how the clocking is setup.
> 
> It's possible I'm missing some initialisation code form openwrt.
> 
> I think i have the MDIO register read/write working fine.
> 
> The RB2011 kernel in question is correctly being built as a mips74k
> kernel, right?
> 

Yes, basically I used DB120 kernel with some bits removed, e. g. wlan
stuff I do not have.

Milan

> On 23 March 2014 15:23, Milan Obuch <freebsd-mips at dino.sk> wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:03:53 -0300
> > Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 16 March 2014 05:46, Adrian Chadd 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.
> >> >
> >> > 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;
> >> > * 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.
> >>
> >> I'll get there eventually... if nobody beats me here...
> >>
> >> I have one RB2011 (the one with a gbic option) and i want to see it
> >> working soon (but i have a few things to finish before that
> >> happen :/)
> >>
> >> Luiz
> >>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was able to build a kernel for RB2011 and it works quite well,
> > just one, but really important thing does not work for me -
> > ethernet switch. It looks like something wrong with MDIO, so I
> > can't configure correctly the switches, and as there is no port
> > connected directly to CPU, I can't currently do any network
> > traffic. If I could reliably read/write switch registers, then I
> > eventually would play with vlan support.
> >
> > Did someone achieve success with RB2011 ethernet?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Milan