Did this mean we need poll something when do the external reset?
I check the https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/27083,found it's check the
AR933X_BOOTSTRAP_EEPBUSY when do reset,but the latest code have remove it.

2012/8/24 Gabor Juhos <[email protected]>

> 2012.08.23. 11:28 keltezéssel, Simon Wunderlich írta:
> > Hello Adrian,
> >
> > thanks for your comments!
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:57:04AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >> Yeah. The deadbeef means "something's turned off."
> >>
> >> I'd start with the SoC reset register and see if the MAC/WMAC bits are
> >> correctly set. Ie, that something hasn't gone and reset the wireless
> >> bits behind your back.
> >
> > Sure, but which register would that be? How can I find out? Is it
> included
> > in regdump of ath9k debugfs?
>
> It is the AR933X_RESET_REG_RESET_MODULE register (0x1806001c), and the
> reset of
> the WMAC chip is controlled by the AR933X_RESET_WMAC bit. You can find the
> definitions in arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ath79/ar71xx_regs.h.
>
> The platform device registration code pulls the WMAC chip out of reset
> before
> registering the device. See the 'ar933x_wmac_setup' function in
> 'arch/mips/ath79/dev-wmac.c'. Then only the ath9k driver controls the
> hardware
> reset line indirectly via ah->external_reset.
>
> However, I doubt that the 0xdeadbeef values are caused by this. If the
> AR933X_RESET_WMAC bit is set in the reset register, the WMAC chip is not
> accessible at all. If the AR933X_RESET_WMAC bit is set and the driver
> tries to
> access the WMAC registers, the board locks up completely, or reboots
> itself. At
> least I have experienced this earlier.
>
> -Gabor
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