Hi,
Getting the PCIE Host Mode working is needed for the second radio (5
GHz).
With your previous set of patches, the device would be recognized and
would try
to load the driver (broadcom-wl); but eventually you would get a
kernel oops (it
didn't actually hang the machine though). I noticed all of the PCIE
patches are
absent from this latest set; are you still working on them, or did you
put them on
the back burner (maybe not needed by the RT-N16)?
There were two reasons for not to include pcie code:
1. My N16'ths have pice but nothing useful on it besides usb host which
works just fine over ssb (maybe this is some 2nd usb host? I dont know).
2. The code was bloated too much, need more debugging to get clean
solution.
Therefore no wonders you had kernel oops. And yes, I had to put it back
for a while till I done with clean AI support code and also might till I
get wider testing base. Gonna order some hw for playing around, hope I
could get my hands over these soon. Atm I have number of N16'th and few
non-mipses (tbh never tested the code on them and now I see I was plain
wrong with this) but these non-mipses are SB based. Also, frankly
speaking, I supposed pcie is useless for 4716 embeddables before your
response - just thought to try out pcie-connected usb host some time
later when done with platform support. Now I see I was wrong.
Got some time to play with pcie host. Anyone going in that direction already ?
Have nice day,
George
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