[OpenWrt-Devel] Ethernet problem with R8000

[Ian Kent]

On Sat, 2015-02-28 at 23:07 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to make progress on getting the Netgear R8000 to work.
> Basically it's a BCM4799 but with a BCM53012 switch rather than the
> usual BCM53011 (among other differences).

Obviously that's a BCM4709.

> 
> I have a number of problems but the one that is the most concerning is
> that Ethernet doesn't work.

Maybe the original question is too hard and possibly to vague.

How about a simpler question, there are 4 GBit devices listed at boot
(id 04bf:082d). How do these devices relate to the physical ports on the
router box, ie. which one is used for what, are they all used, how do I
work out which is which?

> 
> Now, this is all quite new to me so I'm struggling and would appreciate
> some help.
> 
> AFAICS the switch is matched in the various drivers so it appears to be
> supported to the extent that it's believed to function. The nvram
> claims sprom rev 11, I've added that (although I'm not sure it's done
> the way it should be) and it looks like the only things the bgmac
> driver needs from it are a couple of mac addresses and a phy address
> which it gets.
> 
> But I have no Ethernet at all!
> 
> The only things I can say for sure are, packets sent are seen by the
> bgmac driver and the driver gets a transmit completion interrupt which
> it processes. However, no packets is seen coming from the router switch
> port. Similarly no interrupts are seen by the driver for incoming
> packets at all.
> 
> I have, to the extent that I can and not yet completely, worked through
> the GPL Broadcom source for the R8000 comparing the switch source to
> the bgmac driver (together with the spec at the sip solutions site) and
> I can't yet identify any significant differences.
> 
> Also, again to the extent I can, I see what looks like should be in the
> registers for the first DMA channel and that changes as it should as
> packets are sent, channels 2-4, aren't really used yet by the look of
> it so I'm not sure inconsistencies in them matter, in any case it's the
> ring descriptor offset that appears incorrect.
> 
> Can anyone offer any suggestions on how to work out what this problem
> is?
> 
> Ian
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