1. Are you running a DTB kernel?
   Do you have a Dreamplug revision with SD8787 that uses mwifiex?
   I’m trying to track down an issue where the SD8787 seems to be losing interrupts, and it seems like on a DTB kernel, the “unhandled interrupt” messages from mvsdio are for interrupts that should have gone to mwifiex.

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   • I’m using the ‘appended’ kernel image:
     # cat arch/arm/boot/zImage arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-dreamplug.dtb > arch/arm/boot/zImage_w_dtb
     # mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x8000 -e 0x8000 -n “linux-dreamplug” -d arch/arm/boot/zImage_w_dtb ../uImage314rc1

     Tried to update the old UBoot to a newer version, but repeated attempts to use the JTAG connection failed, with IO errors, and I didn’t want to run the risk of bricking it with a flash update..
     I haven’t used the wifi hardware for some time now, so don’t have any info on the problem you mentioned..

     RG.

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2. Dear sir,

   I’m trying to compile a kernel for Dreamplug under Archlinux, as it seems the usb-drivers and internal SD-card drivers are not built in, at least I can’t get the stock Archlinux-kernel to boot. Is there a place I can get your .config for the kernel, so I can have a look what devices you have built in?

   Thanks

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   • I have a working 3.12 .config for the Dreamplug at http://pastebin.com/Vr3Y7Gg3

     Hope that is useful..

     RG.

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3. Thanks – I also found the .config of the 3.12.6 of Archlinux, but still no luck – now it breaks when mounting the rootfs and proposes the mtdblocks as partitions, but that’s not useful, neither 🙁 Did you compile and boot on a Dreamplug from 3.15, too?

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   • Arch Linux has linux-kirkwood-dt and linux-kirkwood in the repositories; both have been updated to 3.15. The -dt kernel requires a U-Boot upgrade from the stock firmware.
     Is there something missing in these as well?

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   • I have put my .config for a working DreamPlug 3.15-rc1 at http://pastebin.com/hn8RWYWy

     I did try to update the U-Boot, but the jtag connection was extremely unreliable, and I didn’t want to risk bricking the unit, and not being able to recover the firmware..

     I used the device tree config with the ‘old’ U-Boot, by creating a uImage, as follows:
     # cat arch/arm/boot/zImage arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-dreamplug.dtb > arch/arm/boot/zImage_w_dtb
     # mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x8000 -e 0x8000 -n “linux-dreamplug” -d arch/arm/boot/zImage_w_dtb ../uImage315rc1

     This was all using the kernel.org source code..

     RG

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4. Great – I’ll try that today. I have an updated u-boot from the debian-repositories, IIRC, from october 2013. As the kernel starts to boot, I guess it’s not too bad. From Archlinuxarm I tried both linux-kirkwood and linux-kirkwood-dt, but both fail to recognize any root-filesystem…

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   • That’s… odd.
     I’m currently running linux-kirkwood-dt with a U-Boot I built myself, and I didn’t have any issues.

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     • Hmm, which kernel-version is that? Here I tried dt-3.15-4 and 3.15.1 (no dt for the latter)…

       Would you mind to share your u-boot, so I can try if the problem lies there? As I said, mine comes from Debian and is dated October 2013.

       I just started *make zImage* with your config-file, but on an Archlinuxarm-kirkwood-dt-patched kernel. I hope that will work, even though I’m scared at the search of the flag that needs to be added to the Archlinuxarm-kernel…

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       • OK, the build is finished, last line I see is

         bootconsole [earlycon0] disabled

         I’ll try to compile without the dtb – perhaps I’ll have more luck.

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         • No – still no luck. I think I’ll bug the people at ArchLinux to know whether they have some ideas, I’m running low on them (and having to wait for 3 hours of compilation between the ideas does not help, neither).

           Another question: when you do the

           cat zImage dreamplug.dtb > zImage_with_dtb

           where do you take the dtb from? I’m using the one I found on the Archlinux-installation…

     • Are you running linux-kirkwood-dt from Archlinux with 3.15.1? Or what version?

       I just tried to compile the 3.15-kernel with your config, without all the patches from Archlinux. But upon mounting the root-filesystem, it only sees the mtdblock-devices, which doesn’t help…

       Now I’m eager to get a kernel compiling, seems the radio-issue with Dreamplug has been fixed:

       https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70191

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