Re: Banana Pi-R1 - kernel 5.6.0 and later broken - b43 DSA

[Florian Fainelli]

Hi,

On 6/20/2020 10:39 AM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having troubles with the Banana Pi-R1 router with newer kernels. No
> config changes, config works well since a lot of lernel updates ...
> Banana Pi-R1 is configured via systemd-networkd and uses the DSA
> (Distributed Switch Architecture) with b53 switch. No visible difference
> in interfaces, vlan config, bridge config, etc. Looks like actual
> configuration in the switch in the hardware is broken.

Can you share your network configuration again with me?

> 
> # OK: Last good known version (booting that version is also ok)
> Linux bpi 5.5.18-200.fc31.armv7hl #1 SMP Fri Apr 17 17:25:00 UTC 2020
> armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

OK, I suspect what has changed is this commit:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8fab459e69abfd04a66d76423d18ba853fced4ab

which, if I remember your configuration correctly means that you now
have proper DSA interfaces and so all of the wan, lan1-lan4 interfaces
can now run a proper networking stack unlike before where you had to do
this via the DSA master network device (eth0). This also means that you
should run your DHCP server/client on the bridge master network device now.

> 
> # NOK: no network
> Linux bpi 5.6.8-200.fc31.armv7hl #1 SMP Wed Apr 29 19:05:06 UTC 2020
> armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
> 
> # NOK: no network
> Linux bpi 5.6.0-300.fc32.armv7hl #1 SMP Mon Mar 30 16:37:50 UTC 2020
> armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
> 
> # NOK: no network
> Linux bpi 5.6.19-200.fc31.armv7hl #1 SMP Wed Jun 17 17:10:22 UTC 2020
> armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
> 
> # NOK: no network
> Linux bpi 5.7.4-200.fc32.armv7hl #1 SMP Fri Jun 19 00:52:22 UTC 2020
> armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> Saw that there were a lot of changes in the near past in the b53 driver:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/net/dsa/b53?h=v5.8-rc1+
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thnx.
> 
> Ciao,
> Gerhard
> 

-- 
Florian