Re: [PATCH] MIPS: ath79: Add initial support for the HAPROXY Aloha Pocket board

[Yegor Yefremov]

Hi Neil,

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/04/2016 12:14 PM, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 10/04/2016 12:09 PM, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>>>> Hi Neil,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On 10/04/2016 11:09 AM, Alban wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon,  3 Oct 2016 17:35:31 +0200
>>>>>> Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The HAPROXY Aloha pocket board is a Load Balancer demo board based on the
>>>>>>> Atheros AR9331 SoC with 64Mbytes DDR and 16Mbytes on-board SPI Flash.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please use device tree instead of adding another board file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alban
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Alban,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm quite surprised since it seems no device tree support is available for ath79,
>>>>> I would really like to have device tree for this board, but this is only a copy/paste of
>>>>> the mach-ap121 with button/leds gpio differences.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could it be possible to merge it ? I would be happy to support this board once device tree
>>>>> support is landed on the mips tree !
>>>>
>>>> Take a look at these DTS files from the current Linux tree:
>>>>
>>>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/mips/boot/dts/qca/ar9331_dpt_module.dts
>>>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/mips/boot/dts/qca/ar9331_dragino_ms14.dts
>>>>
>>>> etc.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Yegor
>>>>
>>>
>>> My bad, the qca naming is really disturbing.
>>>
>>> I will push a dts instead.
>>
>> Are you also going to submit driver for the network controller? This
>> is almost the last missing component for this SoC.
>>
>> Yegor
>>
>
> Hi Yegor,
>
> I'm not sure I have the right knowledge to push this, but what is the status of the OpenWrt driver ?

AFAIK LEDE project is using Linux 4.4. So that ath79 based devices are
only available in the form of board files. But converting them to DTS
is on LEDE's agenda. So perhaps then the networking driver will be
converted too. See https://www.lede-project.org/todo.html

Yegor