Testing ath79 dsa driver(Xiaomi AIoT AC2350)

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Topic originally had another purpose, is now used to talk about testing dsa on ath79 (more specifically the Xiaomi AIoT router ac2350)

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This is ath79? Do you have this device?

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Yes it is, and I do have the device. The soc is qca9563.

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We are testing DSA driver and this is the only one that we are not sure about the porting. Can you help us testing it?

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Yes! I have the device just sitting around not really being used.

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Nice will post here some link so you can help us testing DSA... Can you compile your own image? Do you have a buildroot?

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Yes I can. I have a build environment set up with wsl.

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Can you put a message here tagging neheb to ask for initial instructions? He should have the files ready so you can test the DSA triver. I assume this router have a way to recover it?

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The router has tftp recovery in the bootloader.

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Here as in the forum or the GitHub PR?

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In the pr sorry

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@MarioK239 this cannot be backported to 21.02. It requires kernel 5.10. 21.02 uses kernel 5.4. master can optionally use 5.10 currently.

to get this working is something like:

git clone https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt
curl https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/openwrt/openwrt/pull/4528.patch | git am
curl https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/openwrt/openwrt/pull/4622.patch | git am
Select use testing kernel version under make menuconfig
make
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This topic was originally for backporting the device to 21.02. not dsa. I forgot to change the first message. Thanks for the instructions, will test.

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This device is of great interest for DSA as everything is weird about it.

ar8327 instead of ar8337 on qca9563????

port 5 instead of port 6 for eth1???

strange switch setup.

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This device actually only has 4 Ethernet ports. 3 lan and 1 wan port. Although most other qca956x routers I've seen have 5 ethernet ports.

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Right. I'm talking about CPU port. Normally it's port0 for eth0 and port6 for eth1. But this oddly enough uses port5.

edit: actually eth1 is not enabled at all... this switch config is probably wrong.

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Do I just have to run those commands, select my device and build an image? Is it that simple?

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Should be. Select the packages you want as well.

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Ok. I will compile the image now and test it tomorrow.
Edit: forgot to ask, I should de-select swconfig right?

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The image compiled successfully. Will start testing in a few hours. Are there certain things I should test apart from general usages?