[OpenWrt-Devel] Mips Creator CI20 OpenWRT support.

[John Crispin]

On 10/12/2014 11:46, José Vázquez wrote:
> I've been working to add support for the CI20 to openwrt and,
> despite some problems I'm unable to fix, the board works stable
> with openwrt (more or less). :( 
> https://github.com/Pteridium/OpenWRT-CI20 Here is a bootlog: 
> http://pastebin.com/stM6Wfgz
> 
> As someone pointed the JZ4780 is not a very good SoC (even he said 
> CI20 is crap), but it performs better than I initially expected, 
> specially in few areas. Of course it haven't the performance of 
> PowerPC, Marvell or IPQ806X.
> 
> IMHO some drivers are not enough good and need to be improved (few
> of them a lot, like irq), but as some of you know I haven't the
> skills to make it.
> 
> Any advice will be very welcome.
> 

assuming that mips sells this as the reference mips platform it is
quite funny that there is no real linux support.

i think you should ping imgtec about this and ask them what their
roadmap is for giving real support for the hw. i know from imgtec that
they used this pcb as it was the only one they could readily source at
3-4k volume. its sort of the wrong way to select hardware. the result
is what we see today. no drivers no real support and horrible network
performance.

btw, i pointed out that the pcb is crap not the SoC. please be precise
when quoting me

	John


> Regards:
> 
> Pepe
> 
> 2014-11-26 11:19 GMT+01:00, Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel 
> <Zubair.Kakakhel at imgtec.com>:
>> Hi Jose,
>> 
>> On 25/11/14 20:44, José Vázquez wrote:
>>> Few weeks ago i've received a Mips CI20 and began to port it
>>> to openwrt using kernel 3.18-rc4. For now only few peripherals
>>> work "fine" but is more than i initially expected. 
>>> https://github.com/Pteridium/OpenWRT-experimental/blob/ci20-alpha/README.md
>>>
>>> 
Still there are a lot of peripherals to be included, but for initial
>>> tests is enough for me.
>>> 
>>> The cpu performance is a bit disappointing if is taken in mind
>>> that runs at 1'2GHz and the ethernet tests with iperf showed
>>> <80Mb/s with one thread and <65 with 100. Compiling without
>>> generic patches 132-mips_inline_dma_ops, 259-regmap_dynamic,
>>> 305-mips_module_reloc, 306-mips_mem_functions_performance and
>>> 309-mips_fuse_workaround I were able to enable msc1 and test
>>> brcmfmac, but no success: the driver recognizes the bcm4330 but
>>> it is unable to configure it correctly.
>>> 
>> 
>> I've traced this all the way back to the dma driver :)
>> 
>> For a working tree with wifi check out
>> 
>> https://github.com/ZubairLK/CI20_linux/tree/wip-ci20-v3.16-wifi-bt
>>
>>>
>> 
Now i'm working to add the remaining drivers that work with kernel
>>> 3.16. What i previously made was simple rebases from the code
>>> wrote by Zubair Lutfullah and Paul Burton with a couple of
>>> changes in pinctrl and dma drivers.
>> 
>> Quite a few drivers with working code can be seen in my
>> work-in-progress tree.
>> 
>> https://github.com/ZubairLK/CI20_linux/tree/wip-ci20-v3.16-merge
>> 
>> They should help.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Any comment will be very appreciated.
>> 
>> Great work on porting OpenWRT to the CI20 :)
>> 
>> blog about it if you have one.
>> 
>> Cheers, ZubairLK
>> 
>>> 
>>> José
>>> 
>> 
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