How to build IPQ4018 firmware

[chunkeey]

@Oni

Thanks for your help.

When I power on the board and enter uboot interface.

When I set the bootcmd of U-boot to bootm and let it autoboot, the kernel panic happens.

I see that if I use auto boot, the PHY device still not be initialized at kernel boot time, this cause kernel panic on my board.

(I used mii info and it printed: Device not found!!!)

In another sense, when I interrupt the auto boot. Enter U-boot command line interface, then type bootm=>kernel work perfectly. (this time mii info prints: “PHY 0x00: OUI …”).

How can I make these PHY device be ready before starting kernel without interrupt Auto boot.

Could you help me

Actually, this is a well known problem... and has been for some time, I'm sure if you google around you can find more. Anyway, @riptidewave93 documented this in his thread about the Cisco Meraki MR33. IPQ40xx target & Single NIC devices

@blogic has a "shiny new ethernet driver".

How to build IPQ4018 firmware

@NyecoN what eaxactly is the problem ? i have a shiny new ethernet driver almost ready, i published the qca8k hw nat offloading patches recently and hope to get them working on ipq4019 in the next 3-4 weeks. if you check out my stagig tree, it has working support for most ipq4019 targets. which routr do you have and is it already supported ?

But it has been MIA for a while now. (You have to ask john for details. It could be because it relies on netdev patches that are a pain to backport, so the new ethernet driver will have to wait for 4.14, which could be "soon" - but this is all speculation on my part.)