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23 hours ago, chwe said:

As you can imagine, my time & know how (in this area) is somehow limited, but if it helps you and other developers to do the hard stuff that I'm for sure not able to do, we can give it a try. 


https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/4519-moderator-duties/


More volunteers for this job? Not much to do but still it's better if load is shared.

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Hmpf, the link I posted above's Igor post didn't work :blink:  Well I fixed it now.

To come back to the topic, I spent a couple hours with DSA (12-16h) Kernel 4.9.7 but it would never run. Then Zador showed me this: couple fixes in April

Just after @dumischbaenger contacted the developer of the driver. So I really got hope for 4.11

 

There are a few of us who would like to see at least the last version of R1 on Kernel 4.11.

Question what do we need to do /test/logs/provide to get there ?    (@TK, please hold back your comment for four days to this request, thank you)

I can also offer UART via SSH on the R1

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9 minutes ago, Tido said:

Question what do we need to do /test/logs/provide to get there ? 

A working DSA configuration must be provided. I guess we can always rebuild 2 images manually in the future if we get network running as expected (both switch and router mode).

I guess other DSA capable devices like Clearfog Pro can be used as an example to either understand how things are supposed to work or to confirm that support for R1's switch is still incomplete or broken.

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Now as you say I cannot recall if I only worked via UART with it or also via Network :huh:

 

8 minutes ago, zador.blood.stained said:

A working DSA configuration must be provided.

  1. /etc/network/interfaces
  2. /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/dsa_up
  3. /etc/network/if-post-down.d/dsa_down
  4. /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

Similar to this, but really working.

 

Hmm, I guess I wrote that already

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Essentials of Hardware and Software
I decided to reduce complexity and to follow a plan. To do so I must leave aside as much as I can.

Before the network starts, the switch driver must be loaded and the connections defined.
OpenWrt first executed a 'reset' and then loaded the configuration.

  • find a way to easily reset (flush) previous settings for a clean start
  • activate eth0

Create two (2) VLANs:

  • allocate to each port of the switch a VLAN-ID  (LAN 102 | WAN 101)
  • allocate /define the connection to the SoC (A20)

I do not care about WiFi yet, because this is attached via USB and not connected to the BCM53125 switch.

 

Did I forget something or is the list above complete ?

 

 

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I have about 8 different files, which I have left when it would not work as expected. I will now take my Armbian_5.31_Lamobo-r1_Debian_jessie_next_4.11.5.img  connect UART and see what I can get. I will report back.

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@zador.blood.stained how do I check if DSA is active ?

 

Spoiler

 


root@lamobo:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
8021q                  24576  0 
garp                   16384  1 8021q
mrp                    16384  1 8021q
stp                    16384  1 garp
llc                    16384  2 garp,stp
iptable_filter         16384  0 
ip_tables              20480  1 iptable_filter
x_tables               20480  2 ip_tables,iptable_filter
rtl8192cu              57344  0 
rtl_usb                20480  1 rtl8192cu
rtl8192c_common        32768  1 rtl8192cu
rtlwifi                49152  3 rtl_usb,rtl8192c_common,rtl8192cu
mac80211              430080  3 rtl_usb,rtlwifi,rtl8192cu
evdev                  20480  1 
sun4i_codec            32768  3 
snd_soc_core          114688  1 sun4i_codec
cfg80211              352256  2 mac80211,rtlwifi
ir_lirc_codec          16384  0 
snd_pcm_dmaengine      16384  1 snd_soc_core
rfkill                 20480  1 cfg80211
lirc_dev               16384  1 ir_lirc_codec
snd_pcm                69632  2 snd_pcm_dmaengine,snd_soc_core
snd_timer              24576  1 snd_pcm
snd                    45056  3 snd_timer,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm
nvmem_sunxi_sid        16384  0 
soundcore              16384  1 snd
nvmem_core             16384  1 nvmem_sunxi_sid
sunxi_cir              16384  0 
sun4i_ss               24576  0 
uio_pdrv_genirq        16384  0 
cpufreq_dt             16384  0 
uio                    16384  1 uio_pdrv_genirq
fuse                   69632  1 

 

 

And what I do not understand, I read  DSA  is controlled with something called 'switchdev' - can I 'ask' switchdev about its connection of the PHY like I could with "swconfig dev switch0 show" ?  I found nowhere any hint about that.

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SWITCHDEV
---------

DSA directly utilizes SWITCHDEV when interfacing with the bridge layer, and
more specifically with its VLAN filtering portion when configuring VLANs on top
of per-port slave network devices. Since DSA primarily deals with MDIO-connected switches, 
although not exclusively, SWITCHDEV's prepare/abort/commit phases are often simplified 
into a prepare phase which checks whether the operation is supported by the DSA switch driver, and a commit
phase which applies the changes.

As of today, the only SWITCHDEV objects supported by DSA are the FDB and VLAN objects.

 

 

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40 minutes ago, Tido said:

@zador.blood.stained how do I check if DSA is active ?

On which kernel version? On current 4.11.x b53 support is modular and modules should be loaded automatically. On previous versions autoprobing was kind of broken and b53 support was compiled in.

dmesg log and list of interfaces should provide more info.

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root@lamobo:~# uname -a
Linux lamobo 4.11.5-sunxi #3 SMP Thu Jun 15 02:11:01 CEST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux

* Armbian_5.31_Lamobo-r1_Debian_jessie_next_4.11.5.img *

I downloaded this somewhere in between while the network was fixed, is this fine ?

 

4 hours ago, zador.blood.stained said:

to /etc/modules may help.

It did help :-)   and  ifconfig -a is much better now.

after reboot lsmod, b53 at the bottom:

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root@lamobo:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
8021q                  24576  0 
garp                   16384  1 8021q
mrp                    16384  1 8021q
stp                    16384  1 garp
llc                    16384  2 garp,stp
iptable_filter         16384  0 
ip_tables              20480  1 iptable_filter
x_tables               20480  2 ip_tables,iptable_filter
rtl8192cu              57344  0 
rtl_usb                20480  1 rtl8192cu
rtl8192c_common        32768  1 rtl8192cu
rtlwifi                49152  3 rtl_usb,rtl8192c_common,rtl8192cu
mac80211              430080  3 rtl_usb,rtlwifi,rtl8192cu
evdev                  20480  1 
cfg80211              352256  2 mac80211,rtlwifi
sun4i_codec            32768  3 
rfkill                 20480  1 cfg80211
snd_soc_core          114688  1 sun4i_codec
ir_lirc_codec          16384  0 
lirc_dev               16384  1 ir_lirc_codec
snd_pcm_dmaengine      16384  1 snd_soc_core
nvmem_sunxi_sid        16384  0 
snd_pcm                69632  2 snd_pcm_dmaengine,snd_soc_core
nvmem_core             16384  1 nvmem_sunxi_sid
snd_timer              24576  1 snd_pcm
snd                    45056  3 snd_timer,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm
soundcore              16384  1 snd
sunxi_cir              16384  0 
sun4i_ss               24576  0 
uio_pdrv_genirq        16384  0 
uio                    16384  1 uio_pdrv_genirq
cpufreq_dt             16384  0 
b53_mdio               16384  0 
b53_common             28672  1 b53_mdio
fuse                   69632  1 

 

 

 

This looks the same, before and after adding it to /etc/modules

root@lamobo:/home/reto# dmesg | grep -i mdio
[    3.819494] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed

 

dmesg is a bit tricky with UART and no network. I could 'pipe' into a file, but now it sits on the SDcard.

 

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I have deleted my DSA configuration file. Rebooted the R1 and typed each step I currently try (without a bridge). I came until here:

root@lamobo:~# ip link set eth0 up
root@lamobo:~# iptables -F
root@lamobo:~# ip link add link eth0 name eth0.101 type vlan id 101
root@lamobo:~# ip link add link eth0 name eth0.102 type vlan id 102
root@lamobo:~# ip link set lan1 master eth0.102
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported

I was wondering, if I got this error message because it is non-sense what I am doing or

when I look up this error message I found that some Kernel Option can be missing.

 

Which is more likely ?

 

Edit same here tried both ways:

root@lamobo:~# ip link set wan master eth0.101
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
root@lamobo:~# ip link set eth0.101 master wan
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported

 

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Thank you. While reading iproute2 cheat sheet I came across this - which destroys my idea to go to the minimum and only bring-up eth0 and the VLAN to get an IP-Address.

** VLANs can be created over bridge, bonding and other interfaces capable of processing ethernet frames too. **

#!/bin/sh
#
#------------------------------------------#
# BPI-R1 DSA VLAN configuration            #
# Distributed Switch Architecture interface#
#------------------------------------------#
#

ip link set eth0 up

# ** create the native VLAN **
ip link add link eth0 name eth0.101 type vlan id 101
ip link add link eth0 name eth0.102 type vlan id 102

ip link set wan up

ip link set eth0.101 up
ip link set eth0.102 up

 

 

it offers this to upgrade - will this leave me on 4.11.5 ?

Inst linux-dtb-next-sunxi [5.31] (5.32 Armbian:jessie [armhf])
Inst linux-headers-next-sunxi [5.31] (5.32 Armbian:jessie [armhf])
Inst linux-image-next-sunxi [5.31] (5.32 Armbian:jessie [armhf])

Conf linux-dtb-next-sunxi (5.32 Armbian:jessie [armhf])
Conf linux-headers-next-sunxi (5.32 Armbian:jessie [armhf])
Conf linux-image-next-sunxi (5.32 Armbian:jessie [armhf])

 

 

:D Finally I have an IP-Address :D

before reboot:  uploaded to http://sprunge.us/hZSQ

after the reboot: uploaded to http://sprunge.us/HXUA

 

The trick was the add two lines to 'interfaces' unbelievable, now it works with the DSA above - well at least I have a working network connection on WAN port.

I will update the document with the current findings.

 

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The absolute minimum you need that the R1 gets an IP-Address is:

in /etc/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

allow-hotplug eth0

auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet dhcp

and:

lsmod 
you must have installed: 

b53_mdio
b53_common 
8021q

To see what all is in the lsmod right now see about 7 posts above.

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