AT91SAM9G20: USB gadget RNDIS does not work in v4.9-at91

[PowerPenguin]

Hello community,

RNDIS support is broken in linux-4.9-at91 with AT91SAM9G20 (unknown USB device)
https://github.com/linux4sam/linux-at91 ... x-4.9-at91

Here is a description how we setup RNDIS:
https://www.at91.com/linux4sam/bin/view ... dgetConfig

Looks like RNDIS is broken since v4.5+
https://github.com/linux4sam/linux-at91 ... 6aaf9d1af6


Now we are in a hopeless situation:

- MDIO for distributed swtich architecture by device tree is not supported by cadence MACB
- may be it works with a xilinx patch for v4.6 (bad; no LTS version and no RNDIS)
=> fixed PHY link does work with 4.13+ => 4.14 LTS ,good, but here USB gadget RNDIS does not work !

Or in other words: If you want to support all switch ports and RNDIS you couldnt use any kernel with device tree


Internally its ok , but there is not any packet from the device to the host on the bus ( after device descriptor request by host)

lib composite is not as module

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modprobe: FATAL: Module libcomposite not found in directory /lib/modules/4.9.87-linux4sam_5.8+gitaa1fe3
mount: mounting none on /sys/kernel/config failed: Device or resource busy
using random self ethernet address
using random host ethernet address
usb0: HOST MAC 8a:eb:5c:64:b3:8c
usb0: MAC 1e:2d:4f:13:68:e5

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root@accg2:~# /sbin/ifconfig usb0
usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 1E:2D:4F:13:68:E5
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

root@accg2:~# /sbin/ifconfig usb0 192.168.250.1
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): usb0: link is not ready
root@accg2:~# /sbin/ifconfig usb0
usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 1E:2D:4F:13:68:E5
          inet addr:192.168.250.1  Bcast:192.168.250.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

root@accg2:~# ping 192.168.250.1
PING 192.168.250.1 (192.168.250.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.250.1: seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.479 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.250.1: seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.316 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.250.1: seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.316 ms

I want to test RNDIS with the new SDK 5.8 but for G20 eval board (listed at older boards) only SDK 4.2 is available with obsolete EOL
Linux buildroot 3.6.9+ #1 Sun Sep 29 12:41:14 CST 2013 armv5tejl GNU/Linux
linux4sam/bin/view/Linux4SAM/GettingStarted

Is there a 5.3 SDK build on the Microchip "(jenkins@shaarm01)" server or has G20 EOL support reached ?

Best regards,
PP

[PowerPenguin]

we found the issue.

We used a device tree file from v3.18 and that wont work with v4+ kernels because of the order of some nodes
We picked at91sam9g20ek.dtsi of v4.14.11 and overwrite it with our changes with out moving the nodes up or down.
We removed stuff we do not need eg. SSC
add /dts-v1/; and renamed the file to our_product.dts
et voila RNDIS worked at v4.14.11


looks like USB clk (PLL) is not independent from node order in the file
of course compile of DTB was always without error or warning


Best regards,
Boris