Its not going UP or?
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Yeah the Phy fails to start, odd part is that QSDK kernel does exactly the same.
I did have a look around as there is no GPL for this specific device and I couldn't find anything different in any of the GPL drops from other vendors (Asus / Netgear ect) but then again I'm pretty sure those don't use the PCIe bus anyway / have them disabled in DTS.
qcom-pcie 20000000.pci: Phy link never came up
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Hm, that is weird.
Xiaomi used some kind of hack for sure, shame that they dont respect GPL at all
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Yeah it's a shame, I have a feeling that they added something odd in uboot as that had logs around looking for PCIe entries in the DTS when loading.
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Need any debug help? I have the AX5 with SSH enabled using the STOK exploit.
Is there a more active thread on dev progress for this chipset? I'd love to get either one of these devices, but would want to use it on OpenWRT to use it as a main device.
I'd also be willing to buy one and help out if there was anything I could accomplish as someone that's not a dev, but falls into that "power-user" category.
https://forum.openwrt.org/search?context=topic&context_id=10484&q=ipq807x&skip_context=true
Thanks! I didn't think to search by the SoC itself, that's why I wasn't finding it 
I found surprisingly Netgear Nighthawk RAX120 AX6000 for 255 EUR from a dealer in Finland, and bought today one:
https://www.dustinhome.fi/product/5011121232/nighthawk-rax120-ax6000-80211ax
That is over 100 eur less than the normal price has been in Europe so far. Not sure if there is a new model coming soon and they are clearing the storage, or what. (They still have 24 units in storage...) That is the first time when I have seen that router below the normal 370-450 EUR price range. They seem to have the 255 eur (or equivalent in local currencies) price on all their Nordic sites, and a bit higher in Netherlands...
So, perhaps the IPQ8074 devices with 5G/2.5G/1Gbps Multi-Gig port will be cheaper in future.
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This is based on what? The same Xiaomi?
ipq8074 based Netgear router.
to my knowledge, no relation to the Xiaomi ax3600 favourite, but a normal Netgear router like R7800, and with GPL sources available from Netgear. Downloaded the sources yesterday, but haven't really looked at them yet.
https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/Netgear_RAX120_(Nighthawk_AX12)
I have been happy with Netgear WNDR3700v1/v2/3800 and R7800, so I thought to look at the next generation. Hopefully as easy TFTP recovery etc. as with the earlier models.
This is a much better one than AX3600.
It uses IPQ8074A instead of IPQ8071A so it runs at full 2.2GHz, has 8x8 MIMO, 5GbE port and two USB ports.
If only I could justify spending over 200 EUR just for deving.
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Do we have a firmware of the netgear router? curious of the nss bin in there
A bit higher in the Netherlands??!!
It costs 387,- over here 
Can’t justify those kind of prices while my wrt1900acv2 and r7800 are still humming along nicely
You can get NSS FW binaries from AX3600 or any other IPQ807x router.
It's not hard to get them but prices are high.
I'm just curious of the version (for the future) we currently have qsdk 10.x firmware
ax3600 use a custom build version so we can't really undestand from what is based.
Wonder if netgear used a more standard version
the nss fw can be extracted from the firmware (if they don't use some strange format)
I think that AX3600 is based on QSDK11.1 or 11.2 as only there IPQ8071 clock went up to 1.4GHz.
Netgear one should be really easy to find upon downloading the GPL archive.
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Most of the time they remove nss fw from the GPL archive.
About ax3600 if it's true only a run test will tell us... (normally they have a standard naming and the version can be extracted by extracting the strings in the bin)
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Not really, Netgear always leaves it but you have to extract it from a virtual package archive.
Or even easier extract it from the FW image
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