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Posted

HI,

I built the latest images for the Pine64+ & Pine64so - kernel 4.14.x + Debian 9 using the Armbian build scripts and had a problem with the ethernet not operational.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

 

U-Boot SPL 2017.11-armbian (Dec 13 2017 - 23:42:42)
DRAM: 2048 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1
NOTICE:  BL3-1: Running on A64/H64 (1689) in SRAM A2 (@0x44000)
NOTICE:  Configuring SPC Controller
NOTICE:  BL3-1: v1.0(debug):aa75c8d
NOTICE:  BL3-1: Built : 23:41:50, Dec 13 2017
NOTICE:  Configuring AXP PMIC
NOTICE:  PMIC: setup successful
INFO:    BL3-1: Initializing runtime services
INFO:    BL3-1: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world
INFO:    BL3-1: Next image address: 0x4a000000, SPSR: 0x3c9


U-Boot 2017.11-armbian (Dec 13 2017 - 23:42:42 +0200) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A64 (SUN50I)
Model: SoPine with baseboard
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0, SUNXI SD/MMC: 1
Card did not respond to voltage select!
mmc_init: -95, time 22
*** Warning - MMC init failed, using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   No ethernet found.
230454 bytes read in 142 ms (1.5 MiB/s)
starting USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 0.00
USB1:   USB OHCI 0.0
USB2:   PA: set_value: error: gpio PA0 not reserved
USB EHCI 1.00
USB3:   USB OHCI 1.0
scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus 2 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
Autoboot in 1 seconds, press <Space> to stop
.....

 

Thanks,

Alaric

Posted
8 minutes ago, Alaric said:

Any help would greatly be appreciated.


Likewise. There was a regression in network stack on H5 boards and apparently on A64 in a recent transformation from 4.13.y to 4.14.y. This kernel is still in development, for testing at most & thanks for reporting the problem. If you need a working board, stick to the legacy kernel or get involved in development to fix this problem. 

Posted

A network was working in 4.13.y and we don't have another kernel for this board/chip. If you refer to recent Allwinner 4.4.y ... waste of time. There is no instant solution except the already mentioned legacy kernel.

Edit: btw this - what you ask - is u-boot related and I don't know if we have network support there yet.

Posted

Hi,

 

today's attempt with pine64+, 'next' branch build. It seems that uboot detects ethernet:

 

U-Boot SPL 2017.11-armbian (Jan 03 2018 - 17:47:48)
DRAM: 2048 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1
NOTICE:  BL3-1: Running on A64/H64 (1689) in SRAM A2 (@0x44000)
NOTICE:  Configuring SPC Controller
NOTICE:  BL3-1: v1.0(debug):aa75c8d
NOTICE:  BL3-1: Built : 17:47:41, Jan  3 2018
NOTICE:  Configuring AXP PMIC
NOTICE:  PMIC: Output power control 2 is an unexpected 0x0
ERROR:   PMIC: setup failed: -3
INFO:    BL3-1: Initializing runtime services
INFO:    BL3-1: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world
INFO:    BL3-1: Next image address: 0x4a000000, SPSR: 0x3c9

U-Boot 2017.11-armbian (Jan 03 2018 - 17:47:48 +0000) Allwinner Technology
CPU:   Allwinner A64 (SUN50I)
Model: Pine64+
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
Warning: HDMI PHY init timeout!
Warning: HDMI PHY init timeout!
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   phy interface7
eth0: ethernet@01c30000
230454 bytes read in 142 ms (1.5 MiB/s)
Warning: HDMI PHY init timeout!
starting USB...
USB0:   PA: set_value: error: gpio PA0 not reserved
USB EHCI 1.00
USB1:   USB OHCI 1.0
scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
Autoboot in 1 seconds, press <Space> to stop

 

but no ethernet interface success with the kernel:

...
[    1.636825] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[    1.637114] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: could not find pctldev for node /soc/pinctrl@1c20800/rgmii_pins, deferring probe
[    1.637537] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
...
...
[    1.785232] console [ttyS0] enabled
[    1.785955] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: PTP uses main clock
[    1.786174] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: Current syscon value is not the default 6 (expect 0)
[    1.786184] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: Unsupported interface mode: rgmii-txid
[    1.786347] dwmac-sun8i: probe of 1c30000.ethernet failed with error -12
[    1.786702] ehci-platform 1c1b000.usb: EHCI Host Controller
...

 

any idea?

 

Thanks,

Bob

Posted
1 hour ago, bob said:

any idea?


Yes. The network is broken due to changes in the upstream kernel driver code. I managed to port this fix to H3 & H5 from 4.15.y while AFAIK A64 is still broken. Perhaps @montjoie know more about this?

Posted

Hello

 

I see two potential problem:

- Unsupported interface mode: rgmii-txid

Check your DTB, (the one in linux-next is good)

 

- could not find pctldev for node /soc/pinctrl@1c20800/rgmii_pins

Check that you have AXP stuff enabled

CONFIG_AXP20X_POWER=y

CONFIG_AXP20X_ADC=y

CONFIG_REGULATOR_AXP20X=y

 

Do not hesitate to contact me on IRC/freenode/#linux-sunxi

Posted
19 minutes ago, montjoie said:

- Unsupported interface mode: rgmii-txid

Check your DTB, (the one in linux-next is good)

Most likely this was left over from Icenowy's patch: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux-sunxi/V7HE8OL2p3c

 

20 minutes ago, montjoie said:

- could not find pctldev for node /soc/pinctrl@1c20800/rgmii_pins

Deferring probe due to pinctrl driver at early boot is normal, hard to say if we have a real issue without full dmesg.

Posted
8 hours ago, zador.blood.stained said:
8 hours ago, montjoie said:

- Unsupported interface mode: rgmii-txid

Check your DTB, (the one in linux-next is good)

Most likely this was left over from Icenowy's patch: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux-sunxi/V7HE8OL2p3c

 

yes, it seems that this part of the patch is not upstreamed:

https://github.com/CallMeFoxie/linux/commit/97684c600f9e848af9e6e417155c8e0683dcd410

 

and I guess this causes inconsistency/failure for pine64+.

Posted
13 minutes ago, zador.blood.stained said:

Last time I heard part of this patch set (Realtek PHY configuration for delays) may not be upstreamed at all: https://irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi/2017-12-26#20898330;

hm, but then the pine64+ code is inconsistent upstream... I guess that should be patched in armbian, right?

I would like to test that, do you have any suggestion how to apply that patch easiest so I can build and test?

 

To create a new patch in patch/kernel/sunxi-next/...? Well that impacted file is already being patched in sunxi-network-dwmac-sun8i_backport_from_4.15-rc.patch...

 

Posted
On 4. 1. 2018 at 7:42 PM, bob said:

To create a new patch in patch/kernel/sunxi-next/.


Two options. Start a compilation with CREATE_PATCHES="yes" and edit the code manually when asked ... or add already aligned appropriate patch to userpatches/kernel/sunxi-next ... 

Posted
7 hours ago, Igor said:

Start a compilation with CREATE_PATCHES="yes" and edit the code manually when asked

cool mechanism.

 

After patching the code, mainline pine64+ seems to be working for me including ethernet!

 

Is it ok to submit that patch as a pull request to armbian?

 

Thanks!

-bob-

Posted
5 minutes ago, bob said:

Is it ok to submit that patch as a pull request to armbian?


Of course. Great job!

Posted

@Igor after closer look, the whole thing is a bit different than I thought originally. It seems that the code inconsistency was introduced by other patch in armbian, but the pine64 ethernet patch is pretty much missing.

So, for now I removed that part of patch so the ethernet is consistent (PR submitted). Pine64 Ethernet patch is still to be added there. I can work on that.

 

-bob-

 

 

Posted

I am investigating a weird issue I have with SOPine modules at the moment, GbE works fine on the Baseboard A with 4.15-rc6, but not on clusterboard, I also have an issue with MAC address assignment where the interface drops into monitor mode after a while...

Posted

Hi everyone,

 

Have spent most of the day working on this one, and have found the following:-

 

Pine64A+, built the image (Pine64), All is working well, including ethernet in U-Boot.

Pine64-R18, built the image (Pine64so), The image works well, ethernet works in the kernel, however, ethernet was not available via U-Boot (Which is what is required by me).

 

I compared the device tree configurations within U-Boot between the boards, found the difference between them regarding ethernet configuration and applied the follow patch which then enabled ethernet in U-Boot.

diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/sun50i-a64-sopine-baseboard.dts b/arch/arm/dts/sun50i-a64-sopine-baseboard.dts
index 42c0f10..1c7c04a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/dts/sun50i-a64-sopine-baseboard.dts
+++ b/arch/arm/dts/sun50i-a64-sopine-baseboard.dts
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 /dts-v1/;
 
 #include "sun50i-a64-sopine.dtsi"
+#include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
 
 / {
 	model = "SoPine with baseboard";
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@
 
 	aliases {
 		serial0 = &uart0;
+        ethernet0 = &emac;
 	};
 
 	chosen {
@@ -66,6 +68,51 @@
 		regulator-min-microvolt = <1800000>;
 		regulator-max-microvolt = <1800000>;
 	};
+
+	soc {
+		emac: ethernet@01c30000 {
+			compatible = "allwinner,sun50i-a64-emac";
+			reg = <0x01c30000 0x2000>, <0x01c00030 0x4>;
+			reg-names = "emac", "syscon";
+			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 82 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+			resets = <&ccu RST_BUS_EMAC>;
+			reset-names = "ahb";
+			clocks = <&ccu CLK_BUS_EMAC>;
+			clock-names = "ahb";
+			#address-cells = <1>;
+			#size-cells = <0>;
+			pinctrl-names = "default";
+			pinctrl-0 = <&rgmii_pins>;
+			phy-mode = "rgmii";
+			phy = <&phy1>;
+			status = "okay";
+
+			phy1: ethernet-phy@1 {
+				reg = <1>;
+			};
+        };  
+    };  
+};
+
+&pio {
+	rmii_pins: rmii_pins {
+		allwinner,pins = "PD10", "PD11", "PD13", "PD14",
+				 "PD17", "PD18", "PD19", "PD20",
+				 "PD22", "PD23";
+		allwinner,function = "emac";
+		allwinner,drive = <3>;
+		allwinner,pull = <0>;
+	};
+
+	rgmii_pins: rgmii_pins {
+		allwinner,pins = "PD8", "PD9", "PD10", "PD11",
+				 "PD12", "PD13", "PD15",
+				 "PD16", "PD17", "PD18", "PD19",
+				 "PD20", "PD21", "PD22", "PD23";
+		allwinner,function = "emac";
+		allwinner,drive = <3>;
+		allwinner,pull = <0>;
+	};
 };
 
 &ehci0 {
@@ -100,3 +147,7 @@
 	pinctrl-0 = <&uart0_pins_a>;
 	status = "okay";
 };
+
+&usbphy {
+    status = "okay";
+};

My question now is, am I doing things correctly, if so, how would I go about submitting this as a patch, to be including in later builds of armbian?

 

Regards

Gavin

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