NanoPi A64 doesnt connect with onboard Ethernet/WiFi with new compiled current/dev image

[guidol]

At first I compiled today armbian buster dev with kernel 5.10.10 and had no chance to connect eth0 nor wlan0 to my network
Only a USB-Ethernet did connect instantly via DHCP.

I did try to go back to kernel 5.9.1 via armbin-config, because with older installations with kernel 5.9.1 (up to 5.9.5) it did work,

 

but also cant connect via onboard ports

But onboard ethernet get a link and did show the right speed and wlan0 is also displaying the available WiFi networks.

 

Next try was to build the armbian buster current (which gave me also kernel 5.10.10) and it also doesnt connect with onboard devices

(here not via Network-Manager nor /etc/network/interfaces)

Also a downgrade to kerrnel 5.9.0 doesnt did the trick  

Here the USB-Ethernet also does work fine.
 

eth0 is also in the same phy-mode as on other devices here:
dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: configuring for phy/rgmii link mode

[   41.158508] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: PHY [stmmac-0:07] driver [RTL8211E Gigabit Ethernet] (irq=POLL)
[   41.160228] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: No Safety Features support found
[   41.160252] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: No MAC Management Counters available
[   41.160260] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: PTP not supported by HW
[   41.173024] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: configuring for phy/rgmii link mode

kernel 5.10.10:
System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to http://ix.io/2NnI 

 

kernel 5.9.0 :
System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to http://ix.io/2NnV

 

Now I do compile "legacy" with kernel 5.4 and will see it that will work
But why did 5.9.x did work in the past and not now?

 

[Igor]

3 minutes ago, guidol said:

But why did 5.9.x did work in the past and not now?

They were remaking driver the proper way ... probably this is the case:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/arch/arm64/boot/dts?h=v5.10.10&id=d0c6707ca4235b78d06bcd62f0e24fbeac3e6d10

[guidol]

16 minutes ago, Igor said:

They were remaking driver the proper way ... probably this is the case:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/arch/arm64/boot/dts?h=v5.10.10&id=d0c6707ca4235b78d06bcd62f0e24fbeac3e6d10

@Igor I was already thinking about this change, but couldnt find the thread.
I changed in the actual used 5.9.0 image the .dts/dtbs to rgmii-id mode and restarted:
 

[   40.812499] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: PHY [stmmac-0:07] driver [RTL8211E Gigabit Ethernet] (irq=POLL)
[   40.814234] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: No Safety Features support found
[   40.814255] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: No MAC Management Counters available
[   40.814264] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: PTP not supported by HW
[   40.814863] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: configuring for phy/rgmii-id link mode

root@npi-a64-116:~# ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=113 time=21.8 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=113 time=22.0 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=113 time=21.8 ms

 

If that will also work in 5.10.10 - then I will have to create a PR  but I have to find the "entry-point" for the dts-file in github....  

[Igor]

3 minutes ago, guidol said:

but I have to find the "entry-point" for the dts-file in github

 

./compile.sh CREATE_PATCHES="yes"

edit source, source, continue

copy created patch to patch/kernel/sunxi-current and sunxi-dev ... 

[guidol]

2 hours ago, Igor said:

 

./compile.sh CREATE_PATCHES="yes"

edit source, source, continue

copy created patch to patch/kernel/sunxi-current and sunxi-dev ... 

@Igor I created https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/2579
but please ignore the old part about the configuration.sh from 2019 - its only the 2021-part about the phy-mode patch

[guidol]

its working again with 5.10.10 (with my - at this time- local .dts/.dtb-change) 
 

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Welcome to Armbian 21.02.0-trunk Buster with Linux 5.10.10-sunxi64

No end-user support: built from trunk

package bsp-kernel[21.02.0-trunk] u-boot[21.02.0-trunk] dtb   [21.02.0-trunk]
firmware          [21.02.0-trunk] config[21.02.0-trunk] branch[dev]

System load:   4%               Up time:       14:55
Memory usage:  10% of 985M      IP:            192.168.6.116
CPU temp:      27°C             Usage of /:    10% of 15G

 

System diagnosis information has been uploaded to http://ix.io/2Npi