Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-10-19 Thread Robert Marko
What about all of the custom BDF-s that were upstreamed primarly for IPQ40XX and lately various QCA99XX and QCA98XX radios? By disabling ath10k-firmware and using the linux-firmware version we are bound to have to use ipq-wifi again since firmware and board files are really rarely updated in

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-10-04 Thread Sven Schönhoff
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:25 AM Koen Vandeputte wrote: > > > > On 2018-10-03 20:06, Dirk Brenken wrote: > > On Mi, 2018-10-03 at 17:59 +0200, Koen Vandeputte wrote: > >> On 2018-08-13 17:14, John Crispin wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> as 19.01 will probably use v4.14 as baseline and ath79 wont be a

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-10-04 Thread Dirk Brenken
On Do, 2018-10-04 at 11:25 +0200, Koen Vandeputte wrote: > > On 2018-10-03 20:06, Dirk Brenken wrote: > > On Mi, 2018-10-03 at 17:59 +0200, Koen Vandeputte wrote: > > > On 2018-08-13 17:14, John Crispin wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > as 19.01 will probably use v4.14 as baseline and ath79

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-10-04 Thread Koen Vandeputte
On 2018-10-03 20:06, Dirk Brenken wrote: On Mi, 2018-10-03 at 17:59 +0200, Koen Vandeputte wrote: On 2018-08-13 17:14, John Crispin wrote: Hi, as 19.01 will probably use v4.14 as baseline and ath79 wont be a full replacement for ar71xx by then we decided to bump ar71xx to v4.14. This is

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-10-03 Thread Koen Vandeputte
On 2018-08-13 17:14, John Crispin wrote: Hi, as 19.01 will probably use v4.14 as baseline and ath79 wont be a full replacement for ar71xx by then we decided to bump ar71xx to v4.14. This is available for testing inside my staging tree ->

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-09-30 Thread Hauke Mehrtens
On 09/26/2018 12:01 AM, Daniel Golle wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:15:14PM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >> ... >> With that update I am fine with squashing the mac80211 updates and >> pushing them to OpenWrt master. >> >> I checked the removed patches and could not find these two patches in

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-09-26 Thread Robert Marko
On Wed, 2018-09-26 at 17:24 +0200, John Crispin wrote: > > > We will have to send patches to linux-firmware to get them to > > update > > the files. > > > > John > > as a temp fix we need to revert > e6bd568051c7ca77a59783fe50203f6e2a427f19 > right ? > > John > Sorry for top

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-09-26 Thread John Crispin
On 26/09/2018 17:14, John Crispin wrote: On 26/09/2018 17:12, Robert Marko wrote: I understand the issues with never firmware breaking driver features, and I dont have anything against using linux-firmware for the firmware but board files there are too old. For example board-2.bin for IPQ4019

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-09-26 Thread John Crispin
On 26/09/2018 17:12, Robert Marko wrote: I understand the issues with never firmware breaking driver features, and I dont have anything against using linux-firmware for the firmware but board files there are too old. For example board-2.bin for IPQ4019 was last updated on 15.02.2018. and it

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-09-26 Thread Robert Marko
I understand the issues with never firmware breaking driver features, and I dont have anything against using linux-firmware for the firmware but board files there are too old. For example board-2.bin for IPQ4019 was last updated on 15.02.2018. and it does not contain any of the BDF that were

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-09-26 Thread John Crispin
On 26/09/2018 16:52, Robert Marko wrote: What about all of the custom BDF-s that were upstreamed primarly for IPQ40XX and lately various QCA99XX and QCA98XX radios? By disabling ath10k-firmware and using the linux-firmware version we are bound to have to use ipq-wifi again since firmware and

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-09-26 Thread Stanislaw Gruszka
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:01:54AM +0200, Daniel Golle wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:15:14PM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > > ... > > With that update I am fine with squashing the mac80211 updates and > > pushing them to OpenWrt master. > > > > I checked the removed patches and could not

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-09-25 Thread Daniel Golle
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:15:14PM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > ... > With that update I am fine with squashing the mac80211 updates and > pushing them to OpenWrt master. > > I checked the removed patches and could not find these two patches in > the upstream kernel: > * >

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-09-25 Thread Hauke Mehrtens
On 09/24/2018 10:47 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > On 08/13/2018 05:14 PM, John Crispin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> as 19.01 will probably use v4.14 as baseline and ath79 wont be a full >> replacement for ar71xx by then we decided to bump ar71xx to v4.14. This >> is available for testing inside my staging

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-09-24 Thread Hauke Mehrtens
On 08/13/2018 05:14 PM, John Crispin wrote: > Hi, > > as 19.01 will probably use v4.14 as baseline and ath79 wont be a full > replacement for ar71xx by then we decided to bump ar71xx to v4.14. This > is available for testing inside my staging tree -> > >

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-09-01 Thread Koen Vandeputte
Hi John, Thanks for the updates! mac80211: I've tested mac80211 on a large number of targets in the field: - ~25 devices - half of them having up to 4 wlan ifaces - all running in IBSS - Distance varying from 20m up to ~50km For my cases, it seems to work well. Small nit-pick: In the

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-08-30 Thread Sven Schönhoff
> > My Archer C7 v4 still bricks with the same error reported earlier and > > confirmed by Koen: Atheros AR8216/AR8236/AR8316: probe of > > ag71xx-mdio.0:00 failed with error -22 > > > > Hi All, > > I created a new branch in my staging tree, which is a replica of the > latest master tree, > but

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-08-30 Thread Koen Vandeputte
On 2018-08-23 19:00, Sven Schönhoff wrote: curious what i missed as my archer-c7-v4 is working fine. TPLINK AC1750 device Hi, please dont top post I have no idea what you are asking. Meaning I don't understand his issue mine works fine, so I'm curious as to what's different I would

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-08-23 Thread Sven Schönhoff
> > > curious what i missed as my archer-c7-v4 is working fine. TPLINK > > > AC1750 device > > Hi, > > please dont top post > > I have no idea what you are asking. > > > > Meaning I don't understand his issue mine works fine, so I'm curious as to > what's different I would guess you didn't

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-08-23 Thread Outback Dingo
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 17:10 John Crispin wrote: > > > On 22/08/18 12:02, Outback Dingo wrote: > > curious what i missed as my archer-c7-v4 is working fine. TPLINK > > AC1750 device > Hi, > please dont top post > I have no idea what you are asking. > Meaning I don't understand his issue mine

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-08-23 Thread Koen Vandeputte
On 2018-08-22 16:14, Koen Vandeputte wrote: ar71xx: I'm now currently testing your ar71xx 4.14 bump (comitted today in master) on a few different targets: - Gl-mifi - Rocket-m5 - RB912 - RB2011 ... Will let you know the results. Hi John, I started with trying on a Mikrotik RB2011 as

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-08-22 Thread Koen Vandeputte
ar71xx: I'm now currently testing your ar71xx 4.14 bump (comitted today in master) on a few different targets: - Gl-mifi - Rocket-m5 - RB912 - RB2011 ... Will let you know the results. Hi John, I started with trying on a Mikrotik RB2011 as these have a Serial port. Ethernet does not

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-08-22 Thread John Crispin
On 22/08/18 12:02, Outback Dingo wrote: curious what i missed as my archer-c7-v4 is working fine. TPLINK AC1750 device Hi, please dont top post I have no idea what you are asking.     John ___ openwrt-devel mailing list

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-08-22 Thread Outback Dingo
curious what i missed as my archer-c7-v4 is working fine. TPLINK AC1750 device On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:59 AM Daniel Golle wrote: > > Hi John, > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:43:18AM +0200, John Crispin wrote: > > On 22/08/18 10:40, Koen Vandeputte wrote: > > > On 2018-08-13 17:14, John

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-08-22 Thread Daniel Golle
Hi John, On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:43:18AM +0200, John Crispin wrote: > On 22/08/18 10:40, Koen Vandeputte wrote: > > On 2018-08-13 17:14, John Crispin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > as 19.01 will probably use v4.14 as baseline and ath79 wont be a > > > full replacement for ar71xx by then we

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-08-22 Thread John Crispin
On 22/08/18 10:40, Koen Vandeputte wrote: On 2018-08-13 17:14, John Crispin wrote: Hi, as 19.01 will probably use v4.14 as baseline and ath79 wont be a full replacement for ar71xx by then we decided to bump ar71xx to v4.14. This is available for testing inside my staging tree ->

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-08-22 Thread Koen Vandeputte
On 2018-08-13 17:14, John Crispin wrote: Hi, as 19.01 will probably use v4.14 as baseline and ath79 wont be a full replacement for ar71xx by then we decided to bump ar71xx to v4.14. This is available for testing inside my staging tree ->

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-08-20 Thread Tom Psyborg
Why dropping 4.9 support right away?!? I've already tried 4.14 without mac80211 update and got approximately 20Mbps less throughput on wifi than with 4.9. If the 4.18 mac80211 update doesn't bring in some of the peformance lost, I wouldn't even consider 4.14 kernel as a baseline for anything. On

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

2018-08-15 Thread Sven Schönhoff
Hi John, I've tested your tree on my Archer C7 v4 but it bricked the device. Only the power led is shining and I don't get a dhcp lease. I've added the new "libubox: set RPATH for host build" commit to skip the base-files error during build, added luci in make menuconfig and unchecked "keep