Hi,
i'm trying to establish support for TP-Link Archer C58. It is a quite cheap dual band (n/ac) router. Looking at the specs it is a stripped down Archer C59: QCA9563 instead of QCA9561, no USB, 8/64 MB Flash/RAM.
First I connected serial to a typical TP-Link header in the top left corner: VCC-GND-XX-XX. But I got no Output on the Serial console. I tried to look for missing Resistors/Condensators but no luck. Does anyone have an Idea how to proceed?
I would expect QCA9561 here too. AFAIK, this one has built-in switch and QCA9563 needs external one.
Yes yout right. It's pretty hard to read, but there is a QCA9561 on board. So wikidev was wrong, I fixed it there.
But that makes it even easier to adopt C59 Firmware to C58. Leaves only missing USB and halved RAM/Flash. Can anyone help me on that or tell me what to do to?
And does someone have an Idea about the serial console?
Take a look how it was done for C59:
https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git;a=commit;h=e39dc8d823c86559eedbbdcee5f5c14b827fed0f
It might be disabled in bootloader... I have heard seen other TP-Link boards based on QCA956x with such approach. If you are able, provide please hi-res pictures of both sides of the PCB.
Back:
If I read that source correctly then the uart and USB LED share one GPIO. I'll try later on that.
Hard to say but it doesn't look like the TX/RX signals are shared with something else. I'm only worried about your solder joints. Have you measured e.g. connection between soldered GND pin and GND on board (if you are brave enough, you can try to measure also connection between soldered TX/RX pins and SOC - I don't know exact pin number but it should be right side of the chip, somewhere in the middle, just below XTAL signals)?
I assume you tried already to swap TX with RX? Have you tried power it with button pressed (maybe UART output is disabled by default and enabled in tftp recovery mode)?
Thanks for the hint to test directly on the SOC. I've found RX and TX to be TP4 & TP5 on the backside.
Orginial Bootlog:
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Jun 7 2016 - 16:58:04)
ap151 - Dragonfly 1.0
DRAM: 64 MB
Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 84000000
Reserving 341k for U-Boot at: 83fa8000
Reserving 32832k for malloc() at: 81f98000
Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 81f97fd4
Reserving 36 Bytes for Global Data at: 81f97fb0
Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 81f77fb0
Stack Pointer at: 81f77f98
Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 83fa8000
Flash Manuf Id 0xef, DeviceId0 0x40, DeviceId1 0x17
flash size 8MB, sector count = 128
Flash: 8 MB
Using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
ath_gmac_enet_initialize: reset mask:c02200
Dragonfly----> S27 PHY *
: cfg1 0x80000000 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_CONTROL 4 :1000
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_SPEC_STAUS 4 :10
eth0 up
ATHRS27: resetting s27
ATHRS27: s27 reset done
: cfg1 0x800c0000 cfg2 0x7214
eth1: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_CONTROL 0 :1000
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_SPEC_STAUS 0 :50
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_CONTROL 1 :1000
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_SPEC_STAUS 1 :50
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_CONTROL 2 :1000
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_SPEC_STAUS 2 :50
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_CONTROL 3 :1000
athrs27_phy_setup ATHR_PHY_SPEC_STAUS 3 :50
eth1 up
eth0, eth1
Setting 0x181162c0 to 0x82
Autobooting in 1 seconds
## Booting image at 9f020000 ...
Image Name: MIPS OpenWrt Linux-3.3.8
Created: 2016-06-07 6:35:41 UTC
Image Type: MIPS Linux Multi-File Image (lzma compressed)
Data Size: 1069823 Bytes = 1 MB
Load Address: 80060000
Entry Point: 80060000
Contents:
Image 0: 1069815 Bytes = 1 MB
Verifying Checksum at 0x9f020040 ...OK
Uncompressing Multi-File Image ... OK
No initrd
## Transferring control to Linux (at address 80060000) ...
## Giving linux memsize in bytes, 67108864
Starting kernel ...
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.3.8 (tplink@tplink) (gcc version 4.6.3 20120201 (prerelease) (Linaro GCC 4.6-2012.02) ) #1 Tue Jun 7 14:35:30 HKT 2016
[ 0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[ 0.000000] CPU revision is: 00019750 (MIPS 74Kc)
[ 0.000000] SoC: Qualcomm Atheros QCA956X rev 0
[ 0.000000] Clocks: CPU:775.000MHz, DDR:650.000MHz, AHB:258.333MHz, Ref:25.000MHz
[ 0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] User-defined physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal 0x00000000 -> 0x00004000
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00004000
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16256
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 board=AP151 rootfstype=squashfs init=/etc/preinit mtdparts=spi0.0:128k(u-boot),1056k(uImage),6944k(rootfs),64k@0x7f0000(ART) mem=64M rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 noinitrd
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 256 (order: -2, 1024 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Memory: 61308k/65536k available (2283k kernel code, 4228k reserved, 565k data, 180k init, 0k highmem)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=9, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:83
[ 0.000000] Calibrating delay loop... 385.84 BogoMIPS (lpj=1929216)
[ 0.060000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.060000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 0.070000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.070000] gpiochip_add: registered GPIOs 0 to 22 on device: ath79
[ 0.080000] MIPS: machine is Qualcomm Atheros AP151 reference board
[ 0.080000] registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset
[ 0.090000] ar71xx: invalid MDIO id 1
[ 0.490000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 0.500000] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[ 0.500000] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x12000000-0x13ffffff]
[ 0.510000] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0001]
[ 0.510000] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x12000000-0x121fffff 64bit]
[ 0.520000] pci 0000:00:00.0: using irq 40 for pin 1
[ 0.520000] Switching to clocksource MIPS
[ 0.530000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.530000] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.530000] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.540000] TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.540000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
[ 0.550000] TCP reno registered
[ 0.550000] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.560000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.560000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.580000] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 0.580000] msgmni has been set to 119
[ 0.590000] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.590000] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 0.600000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[ 0.620000] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11) is a 16550A
[ 0.630000] console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
[ 0.630000] console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
[ 0.640000] m25p80 spi0.0: found s25fl064k, expected m25p80
[ 0.650000] m25p80 spi0.0: s25fl064k (8192 Kbytes)
[ 0.650000] 4 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[ 0.660000] Creating 4 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[ 0.660000] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "u-boot"
[ 0.670000] 0x000000020000-0x000000128000 : "uImage"
[ 0.680000] mtd: partition "uImage" must either start or end on erase block boundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only
[ 0.690000] 0x000000128000-0x0000007f0000 : "rootfs"
[ 0.690000] mtd: partition "rootfs" must either start or end on erase block boundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only
[ 0.710000] mtd: partition "rootfs" set to be root filesystem
[ 0.710000] 0x0000007f0000-0x000000800000 : "ART"
[ 0.720000] flash_chrdev : flash_chrdev_init
[ 0.740000] ag71xx_mdio: probed
[ 0.870000] ag71xx_mdio: probed
[ 0.870000] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4
[ 0.880000] [ag71xx_hw_stop:458]
[ 1.430000] ag71xx ag71xx.0: eth0: connected to PHY at ag71xx-mdio.1:00 [uid=004dd042, driver=Generic PHY]
[ 1.440000] [ag71xx_phy_connect_multi:166]
[ 1.450000] eth1: Atheros AG71xx at 0xba000000, irq 5
[ 1.450000] [ag71xx_hw_stop:458]
[ 2.010000] eth1: Found an AR934X built-in switch
[ 3.040000] [ar7240sw_reset:669]
[ 3.040000] [ag71xx_ar7240_init:1311]
[ 3.040000] TCP cubic registered
[ 3.050000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 3.050000] Bridge firewalling registered
[ 3.060000] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 3.060000] ### of_selftest(): No testcase data in device tree; not running tests
[ 3.070000] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:2.
[ 3.080000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed
[ 4.770000] [ag71xx_phy_start:57]
[ 4.770000] [ag71xx_hw_start:555]ag71xx_hw_start
[ 4.780000] [ag71xx_open:737]
- preinit -
- regular preinit -
jffs2 not ready yet; using ramdisk
- init -
[ 5.160000] [ag71xx_hw_stop:458]
[ 5.170000] [ag71xx_rings_cleanup:348]ag71xx_rings_cleanup
[ 5.170000] [ag71xx_stop:763]
[ 5.890000] liblog: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
[ 5.900000] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 6.190000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 6.370000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 6.510000] Button Hotplug driver version 0.4.1
[ 6.540000] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 6.560000] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
[ 6.570000] tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
[ 6.600000] PPP MPPE Compression module registered
[ 6.680000] L2TP core driver, V2.0
[ 6.690000] L2TP netlink interface
[ 6.700000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[ 6.760000] GRE over IPv4 demultiplexor driver
[ 6.780000] GRE over IPv4 tunneling driver
[ 6.850000] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 6.990000] NET: Registered protocol family 24
[ 7.120000] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (960 buckets, 3840 max)
[ 7.300000] PPPoL2TP kernel driver, V2.0
[ 7.380000] PPTP driver version 0.8.5
[ 7.710000] xt_time: kernel timezone is -0000
[ 8.070000] nf_conntrack_rtsp v0.6.21 loading
[ 8.080000] nf_nat_rtsp v0.6.21 loading
[ 8.110000] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
[ 8.120000] ctnetlink v0.93: registering with nfnetlink.
[ 8.190000] ssdk_plat_init start
[ 8.190000] chip_version:0x0
[ 8.200000] chip_version:0x2
[ 8.200000] Register QCA PHY driver
[ 8.200000] register switch!!
[ 8.220000] qca-ssdk module init succeeded!
reloadconfig() begin:
reloadconfig() end:
reload_profile() begin:
reload_profile() end:
sh: iqos-db-parser: not found
Please press Enter to activate this console. GMT+00:00
Fri Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 2016
[ 12.640000] [ar7240sw_reset:669]
[ 12.640000] [ag71xx_hw_start:555]ag71xx_hw_start
[ 12.650000] [ag71xx_open:737]
[ 12.660000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 14.010000] [ag71xx_phy_start:57]
[ 14.020000] [ag71xx_hw_start:555]ag71xx_hw_start
[ 14.020000] [ag71xx_open:737]
[ 14.040000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 14.520000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): lo: link is not ready
[ 14.530000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 14.530000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 14.540000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ip6tnl0: link is not ready
[ 14.550000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): sit0: link is not ready
[ 14.550000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): gre0: link is not ready
Loading defaults
Loading synflood protection
Adding custom chains
Loading zones
Loading forwardings
Loading rules
Loading redirects
Loading includes
Optimizing conntrack
Loading interfaces
Loading tpcmd
loading access_control
loading basic_security
[ 19.320000] device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
[ 19.320000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): br-lan: link is not ready
conntrack v1.0.0 (conntrack-tools): connection tracking table has been emptied.
Normal env generate
Flush nat forwarding chain
loading administration management
fw unload_local_mgnt
loading parental_control
WPA_DEBUG(tddp.c:149)====>tddp task start
[ 37.770000] ath_hal: 0.9.17.1 (AR5416, AR9380, REGOPS_FUNC, WRITE_EEPROM, 11D)
[ 37.880000] ath_rate_atheros: Copyright (c) 2001-2005 Atheros Communications, Inc, All Rights Reserved
[ 37.900000] ath_tx99: Version 2.0
[ 37.900000] Copyright (c) 2010 Atheros Communications, Inc, All Rights Reserved
[ 38.060000] ath_dev: Copyright (c) 2001-2007 Atheros Communications, Inc, All Rights Reserved
[ 38.920000] __ath_attach: Set global_scn[0]
[ 38.920000] *** All the minfree values should be <= ATH_TXBUF-32, otherwise default value will be used instead ***
[ 38.930000] ACBKMinfree = 48
[ 38.940000] ACBEMinfree = 32
[ 38.940000] ACVIMinfree = 16
[ 38.940000] ACVOMinfree = 0
[ 38.940000] CABMinfree = 48
[ 38.950000] UAPSDMinfree = 0
[ 38.950000] ATH_TXBUF=2700
[ 38.960000] Enterprise mode: 0x03bda000
[ 38.970000] Restoring Cal data from DRAM
[ 38.970000]
[ 38.970000] ART Version : -48.0.0
[ 38.970000] SW Image Version : -48.0.0.0.0
[ 38.980000] Board Revision :
[ 38.980000] ar9300_attach: nf_2_nom -110 nf_2_max -60 nf_2_min -125
[ 38.990000] ath_get_caps[6291] rx chainmask mismatch actual 7 sc_chainmak 0
[ 39.000000] ath_get_caps[6266] tx chainmask mismatch actual 7 sc_chainmak 0
[ 39.020000] ath_tx_paprd_init sc 821d8000 PAPRD Enabled
[ 39.030000] wifi0: Atheros 956X: mem=0xb8100000, irq=47
[ 39.030000] ath_pci: (Atheros/multi-bss)
[ 39.040000] ol_ath_pci_probe: PCI device id 0056 :0056
[ 39.040000] ath_pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x12000000-0x121fffff 64bit]
[ 39.050000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
[ 39.060000] *********** Besra *************
[ 39.060000] ath_pci 0000:00:00.0: ath DEBUG: sc=0x821ccc00
[ 39.070000]
[ 39.070000] ol_ath_pci_configure : num_desired MSI set to 0
[ 39.080000]
[ 39.080000] Using PCI Legacy Interrupt
[ 39.080000] chip_id 0xc chip_revision 0x0
[ 39.100000]
[ 39.100000] CLOCK PLL skipped
[ 39.100000] HIF_PCIDeviceProbed: setting the target pll frac ffffffff intval ffffffff
[ 39.110000] HIF_PCIDeviceProbed: no frac provided, skipping pre-configuring PLL
[ 39.120000] __ol_ath_attach: dev name wifi1
[ 39.120000] ol_ath_attach() BMI inited.
[ 39.130000] ol_ath_attach() BMI Get Target Info.
[ 39.140000] Chip id: 0xc, chip version: 0x1000000
[ 39.140000]
[ 39.140000] CE WAR Disabled
[ 39.210000] NUM_DEV=1 FWMODE=0x2 FWSUBMODE=0x0 FWBR_BUF 0
[ 39.220000] ol_ath_attach() configure Target .
[ 39.220000]
[ 39.220000] Target Version is 1000000
[ 39.230000]
[ 39.230000] Flash Download Address c0000
[ 39.230000] ol_transfer_bin_file: flash data file defined
[ 39.240000] Cal location [0]: 00004000
[ 39.240000]
[ 39.240000] wifi1 NAND FLASH Select OFFSET 0x5000
[ 39.260000] qc98xx_verify_checksum: flash checksum passed: 0xf5a1
[ 39.270000] ol_transfer_bin_file 3903: Download Flash data len 12064
[ 39.280000] Board extended Data download address: 0x0
[ 39.360000]
[ 39.360000] Board data initialized
[ 39.370000] ol_ath_download_firmware: Download OTP, flash download ADDRESS 0xc0000
[ 39.380000]
[ 39.380000] Selecting OTP binary for CHIP Version 0
[ 39.510000] ol_transfer_bin_file 3738: downloading file 0, Download data len 8568
[ 39.550000]
[ 39.550000] First OTP send param 8000
[ 39.790000] ol_ath_download_firmware :First OTP download and Execute is good address:0x5000 return param 4660
[ 39.800000] ol_ath_download_firmware:##Board Id 20 , CHIP Id 0
[ 39.810000] ol_ath_download_firmware: BOARDDATA DOWNLOAD TO address 0xc0000
[ 39.820000] Warning : No board id matched. Selecting default boarddata file
[ 39.820000]
[ 39.820000] wifi1: Selecting board data file name boarddata_0.bin
[ 39.830000] ol_transfer_bin_file: Board Data File download to address=0xc0000 file name=QCA9888/hw.1/boarddata_0.bin
[ 39.850000] ol_transfer_bin_file 3738: downloading file 3, Download data len 12064
[ 39.860000] Board extended Data download address: 0x0
[ 39.890000] ol_ath_download_firmware: Using 0x1234 for the remainder of init
[ 39.900000]
[ 39.900000] Selecting OTP binary for CHIP Version 0
[ 39.920000] ol_transfer_bin_file 3738: downloading file 0, Download data len 8568
[ 39.960000]
[ 39.960000] [Flash] : Ignore Module param
[ 39.960000]
[ 39.960000] Second otp download Param 10000
[ 40.220000] ol_ath_download_firmware : Second OTP download and Execute is good, param=0x0
[ 40.230000]
[ 40.230000] Mission mode: Firmware CHIP Version 0
[ 40.250000] ol_swap_seg_alloc: Successfully allocated memory for SWAP size=262144
[ 40.370000] Swap: bytes_left to copy: fw:16; dma_page:82233
[ 40.380000] Swap: wrong length read:0
[ 40.380000] ol_swap_wlan_memory_expansion: Swap total_bytes copied: 179911 Target address 418850
[ 40.390000] scn=823c0380 target_write_addr=418850 seg_info=821d6010
[ 40.400000] ol_transfer_swap_struct:Code swap structure successfully downloaded for bin type =2
[ 40.410000] bin_filename=QCA9888/hw.1/athwlan.bin swap_filename=/lib/firmware/QCA9888/hw.1/athwlan.codeswap.bin
[ 40.420000] ol_transfer_bin_file: Downloading firmware file: QCA9888/hw.1/athwlan.bin
[ 40.890000] ol_transfer_bin_file 3738: downloading file 1, Download data len 351668
[ 42.250000] ol_ath_attach() Download FW done.
[ 42.260000] ol_ath_attach() HT Create .
[ 42.260000] ol_ath_attach() HIF Claim.
[ 42.270000] ol_ath_attach() BMI Done.
[ 42.270000] ol_ath_attach 6866 host_enable 0 nss_nwifi_offload 0
[ 42.280000] ol_ath_set_default_tgt_config : AC Minfree buffer allocation through module param (umac.ko)
[ 42.290000] OL_ACBKMinfree : 0
[ 42.290000] OL_ACBEMinfree : 0
[ 42.290000] OL_ACVIMinfree : 0
[ 42.300000] OL_ACVOMinfree : 0
[ 42.300000] ol_ath_attach() WMI attached. wmi_handle 81e80000
[ 42.310000] CE_recv_buf_enqueue 844 Populate last entry 512 for CE 5
[ 42.320000] CE_recv_buf_enqueue 853 CE 5 wi 511 dest_ptr 0x1843820 nbytes 0 recv_ctxt 0x8182dc00
[ 42.330000] Startup Mode-0 set
....Now i'm trying to load C59 image via tftp. I renamed the image file to 0200A8C0.img.
But this does not work...
Trying eth1
*** Warning: no boot file name; using '0200A8C0.img'
Using eth1 device
TFTP from server 192.168.0.10; our IP address is 192.168.0.2
Filename '0200A8C0.img'.
Load address: 0x81000000
Loading: #################################################################
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done
Bytes transferred = 3660405 (37da75 hex)
ath> bootm
## Booting image at 81000000 ...
Bad Magic Number
ath>
What does this mean? Wrong Kernel Address?
Ops... I should know that before... it's the same as in C59, sorry, haven't got chanve to play with these devices (yet)!
This probably won't work, you would need to build initramfs image. Are you able build image yourself?
I used factory image which is only good for recovery. The Tp-Link Forum Thread indicates one needs sysupgrade. Et Voila:
Using eth1 device
TFTP from server 192.168.0.10; our IP address is 192.168.0.2
Filename '0200A8C0.img'.
Load address: 0x81000000
Loading: #################################################################
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done
Bytes transferred = 3866628 (3b0004 hex)
ath> bootm
## Booting image at 81000000 ...
Image Name: MIPS LEDE Linux-4.4.56
Created: 2017-03-30 16:31:02 UTC
Image Type: MIPS Linux Kernel Image (lzma compressed)
Data Size: 1358126 Bytes = 1.3 MB
Load Address: 80060000
Entry Point: 80060000
Verifying Checksum at 0x81000040 ...OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
No initrd
## Transferring control to Linux (at address 80060000) ...
## Giving linux memsize in bytes, 67108864
Starting kernel ...
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.4.56 (buildbot@buildslave) (gcc version 5.4.0 (LE DE GCC 5.4.0 r3888-8fb39f1) ) #0 Thu Mar 30 16:31:02 2017
[ 0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[ 0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019750 (MIPS 74Kc)
[ 0.000000] SoC: Qualcomm Atheros QCA956X ver 1 rev 0
[ 0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[ 0.000000] No valid device tree found, continuing without
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pag es: 16256
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: board=ARCHER-C59-V1 mtdparts=spi0.0:64k(u-b oot)ro,64k(mac)ro,1536k(kernel),12992k(rootfs),1664k(tplink)ro,64k(art)ro,14528k @0x20000(firmware) console=ttyS0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 noinitrd
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 256 (order: -2, 1024 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Memory: 59968K/65536K available (3087K kernel code, 161K rwdata, 776K rodata, 320K init, 205K bss, 5568K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:51
[ 0.000000] Clocks: CPU:775.000MHz, DDR:650.000MHz, AHB:258.333MHz, Ref:25.00 0MHz
[ 0.000000] clocksource: MIPS: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_i dle_ns: 4932285024 ns
[ 0.000006] sched_clock: 32 bits at 387MHz, resolution 2ns, wraps every 55418 93118ns
[ 0.008206] Calibrating delay loop... 385.84 BogoMIPS (lpj=1929216)
[ 0.071017] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.075974] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.082950] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.092476] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, ma x_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 0.102884] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[ 0.110344] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.116273] MIPS: machine is TP-LINK Archer C59 v1
[ 0.559723] registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset
[ 0.574660] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[ 0.579024] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x12000000-0x13ffffff]
[ 0.586265] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0001]
[ 0.592141] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x0]
[ 0.599287] pci_bus 0000:00: No busn resource found for root bus, will use [b us 00-ff]
[ 0.607694] pci 0000:00:00.0: invalid calibration data
[ 0.613448] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x12000000-0x121fffff 64bi t]
[ 0.621196] pci 0000:00:00.0: using irq 40 for pin 1
[ 0.627139] clocksource: Switched to clocksource MIPS
[ 0.633525] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.638873] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.646227] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.652974] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[ 0.659756] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.665918] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.672807] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.681376] Crashlog allocated RAM at address 0x3f00000
[ 0.698834] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 0.704989] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORIT Y) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.717453] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.721593] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 0.727332] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 16 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.736193] console [ttyS0] disabled
[ 0.760040] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11, base_baud = 156 2500) is a 16550A
[ 0.769137] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.769137] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.776677] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 0.776677] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 0.790753] m25p80 spi0.0: found s25fl064k, expected m25p80
[ 0.796520] m25p80 spi0.0: s25fl064k (8192 Kbytes)
[ 0.801525] mtd: spi0.0: partitioning exceeds flash size, truncating
[ 0.808092] mtd: spi0.0: partitioning exceeds flash size, truncating
[ 0.814648] mtd: spi0.0: skipping zero sized partition
[ 0.819953] mtd: spi0.0: partitioning exceeds flash size, truncating
[ 0.826511] mtd: spi0.0: skipping zero sized partition
[ 0.831815] mtd: spi0.0: partitioning exceeds flash size, truncating
[ 0.838376] 5 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[ 0.844487] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[ 0.849447] 0x000000000000-0x000000010000 : "u-boot"
[ 0.856610] 0x000000010000-0x000000020000 : "mac"
[ 0.862827] 0x000000020000-0x0000001a0000 : "kernel"
[ 0.869304] 0x0000001a0000-0x000000800000 : "rootfs"
[ 0.875687] mtd: device 3 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
[ 0.881624] mtdsplit: no squashfs found in "rootfs"
[ 0.886681] 0x000000020000-0x000000800000 : "firmware"
[ 0.926388] libphy: ag71xx_mdio: probed
[ 0.941471] libphy: ag71xx_mdio: probed
[ 1.529636] ag71xx ag71xx.0: connected to PHY at ag71xx-mdio.1:00 [uid=004dd0 42, driver=Generic PHY]
[ 1.539625] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4, mode:MII
[ 2.129315] ag71xx-mdio.1: Found an AR934X built-in switch
[ 2.171972] eth1: Atheros AG71xx at 0xba000000, irq 5, mode:GMII
[ 2.180471] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 2.188964] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 2.193624] bridge: automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been depreca ted. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[ 2.206792] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
But of course you get a lot of jffs2 errors (out of flash adress) and finally a kernel panic - Unable to mount root.
I think i will be, give me some time i'm a professional linux user 
and a fast learner. I'll ask in case of problems occur.
Thank you for all your support.
You're welcome! Looking forward for your patch or pull request with support for this one
Hi,
I finally managed to have a look at the router. I did a preliminary support based on C59 and C60 patchset (https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git;a=commit;h=e39dc8d823c86559eedbbdcee5f5c14b827fed0f)
Have a look at my github, everything compiles fine:
But i ran into some problems. Board detection:
[ 0.000000] MIPS: no machine found for id 'ARCHER-C58-V1', supported machines:
ARCHER-C58-V1 is missing from the list displayed.
[ 0.329317] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[ 0.337088] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[ 0.345715] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 0.355966] Rebooting in 1 seconds..
Is the Flash Layout wrong? I copied from C60 as it also has 8 MB. Or is it because the board was not detected?
Your machine file (mach-archer-c58-v1.c) should be included in target/linux/ar71xx/files/arch/mips/ath79/Makefile.
BTW. As far as I can see, your machine file is almost identical as the C59 one... you can combine them into one machine file and that would be preferred way.
Thank you, fixed this in next commit.
I will finish first with support and when its similar I'll merge C59/C58.
I have some trouble with LEDs however. C58 hast a 74HC595 like the C59, but copying the from the machine file is not working (all LEDs are dark).
One other thing is 5GHz not working. C59/C60 patchset says its because of missing firmware. But QCA9886 is supported according to ath10k wiki...
I expect that there is some GPIO-controlled "disable all LEDs" signal. Take a look at the datasheet, it has ~OE input.
Unfortunately, I can't help you here, I don't have access to any similar hardware at the moment.
Thank you, it was even easier, just some typos . I think it's now time for a pull request, what do you think?[quote="pepe2k, post:15, topic:2699"]
Unfortunately, I can't help you here, I don't have access to any similar hardware at the moment.
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Can you give me a hint where to start/ask, maybe we just need a newer firmware version in the repo?
One thing that did not happen was the inclusion of kmod-ath10 and ath10k-firmware-qca988x in the image. It was not selected in menuconfig and putting in target/linux/ar71xx/image/tp-link.mk does not help. Im not so into Kernel development so how do you add a dpendency in KConfig? Or what is the lede prefered way doing this?
This is what ath10k displays once loaded:
[ 8.396810] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
[ 8.402972] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: pci irq legacy oper_irq_mode 1 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[ 8.557688] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:00:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[ 8.568766] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[ 8.709881] firmware ath10k!pre-cal-pci-0000:00:00.0.bin: firmware_loading_store: map pages failed
[ 8.719401] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:00:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[ 8.730117] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[ 8.947025] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9888/hw2.0/firmware-5.bin failed with error -2
[ 8.958114] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[ 9.067711] firmware ath10k!QCA9888!hw2.0!firmware-5.bin: firmware_loading_store: map pages failed
[ 9.077185] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA9888/hw2.0/firmware-5.bin': -11
[ 9.087498] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9888/hw2.0/firmware-4.bin failed with error -2
[ 9.098551] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[ 9.266853] firmware ath10k!QCA9888!hw2.0!firmware-4.bin: firmware_loading_store: map pages failed
[ 9.276321] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA9888/hw2.0/firmware-4.bin': -11
[ 9.286636] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9888/hw2.0/firmware-3.bin failed with error -2
[ 9.297687] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[ 9.465936] firmware ath10k!QCA9888!hw2.0!firmware-3.bin: firmware_loading_store: map pages failed
[ 9.475327] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA9888/hw2.0/firmware-3.bin': -11
[ 9.485653] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9888/hw2.0/firmware-2.bin failed with error -2
[ 9.496709] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[ 9.663671] firmware ath10k!QCA9888!hw2.0!firmware-2.bin: firmware_loading_store: map pages failed
[ 9.673114] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA9888/hw2.0/firmware-2.bin': -11
[ 9.683373] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: could not fetch firmware files (-11)
[ 9.690397] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: could not probe fw (-11)
I wonder what error -11 means, could not find anything about it, -2 is obviously not found...
The loaders tries to load pre-cal-pci-0000:00:00.0.bin, firmware-2.bin, firmware-3.bin, firmware-4.bin, firmware-5.bin. But ath10k-firmware-qca988x has only:
./ath10k
./ath10k/QCA988X
./ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0
./ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/board.bin
./ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/firmware-5.bin
./ath10k/cal-pci-0000:00:00.0.bin
Does someone have an Idea about this firmware mess? We're getting close to complete Support...
Thanks for adding support @prisma, apart from 5GHz, it's working pretty well for me.
I get the same as you when using the built-in firmware.
I've also tried the firmware from both Candela Technologies and Code Aurora, with very similar results:
[ 12.131875] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: pci irq legacy oper_irq_mode 1 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[ 12.288553] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:00:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[ 12.299638] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[ 12.392037] firmware ath10k!pre-cal-pci-0000:00:00.0.bin: firmware_loading_store: map pages failed
[ 13.208999] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Unknown FW IE: 30
[ 13.214319] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: qca9888 hw2.0 target 0x01000000 chip_id 0x00000000 sub 0000:0000
[ 13.223883] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 0 dfs 1 testmode 1
[ 13.242411] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: firmware ver 10.4-ct-9888-tW-009-cf18e19 api 5 features peer-flow-ctrl crc32 d104730b
[ 13.531548] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: board id is not exist in otp, ignore it
[ 13.550505] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: failed to fetch board data for bus=pci,vendor=168c,device=0056,subsystem-vendor=0000,subsystem-device=00006*&�
@F��a from ath10k/QCA9888/hw2.0/board-2.bin
[ 13.568533] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9888/hw2.0/board.bin failed with error -2
[ 13.579160] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[ 13.667104] firmware ath10k!QCA9888!hw2.0!board.bin: firmware_loading_store: map pages failed
[ 13.676121] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: failed to fetch board data
[ 13.682237] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: failed to fetch board file: -11
[ 13.688999] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: could not probe fw (-11)
The junk characters after the subsystem-device on line 13.550505 is a little suspicious.
If I add the board.bin I get a firmware crash, similar to Borris here
I noticed support for this router has now been discontinued.
https://lede-project.org/toh/hwdata/tp-link/tp-link_archer_c58_v1
Please could you support this router again.
You misunderstood the Availability field.
The field you should be looking at is LEDE Supported Current Rel: snapshot
This means, this device has snapshot support. Well, had snapshot support until recently, see
From the commit:
The build fails for any of these boards because the resulting kernel
image will not fit into the kernel partition.When CONFIG_KERNEL_KALLSYMS is not set it could be that the kernel will
fit onto the board again, this is the case for release images.
-> Wait for the next release, whenever that may be.