Netgear R7800 exploration (IPQ8065, QCA9984)

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@fantom-x

I will try a prebuilt image.

Details of my builds can be found in the community build thread for R7800.

Build for Netgear R7800

I've uploaded my build for R7800 based on lede-17.01 branch here: https://app.box.com/s/oxaht7753bskakihl5xqq0r159wt76gi It has two sysupgrade image; one with the default stmmac ethernet driver while another image is built with the nss-gmac ethernet driver. For those who experienced high latency for your R7800, appreciate if you can help test the image and see if it solves the high latency issue. You can also build the image yourself using the GitHub repository here: stmmac driver: nss…

After re-looking into the source code, looks like the NSS cores are not used, as it requires the NSS firmware to be uploaded. But the nss-gmac driver is required for further work on the nss-drv to be done. I'll see if I can get the nss-drv successfully loaded. That would be the one to drive the NSS cores and perform the offload magic.