[R2] Need help with Debian 10 and MT7615 PCIe card

Banana Pi BPI-R4/BPI-R3 Mini/BPI-R3/BPI-R64/BPI-R2
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I have an issue of building kernel BPI-R2-4.14-4.19-mt7615. Can you help me? Here is part of build.sh output:

  CC      drivers/opp/cpu.o
In file included from drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76_new/mt7615/../mt76.h:27,
             from drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76_new/mt7615/mt7615.h:9,
             from drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76_new/mt7615/init.c:9:
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76_new/mt7615/init.c: In function ‘mt7615_register_device’:
./include/net/mac80211.h:2342:57: error: ‘IEEE80211_HW_TX_STATUS_NO_AMPDU_LEN’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU’?
 #define ieee80211_hw_set(hw, flg) _ieee80211_hw_set(hw, IEEE80211_HW_##flg)
                                                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76_new/mt7615/init.c:210:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘ieee80211_hw_set’
  ieee80211_hw_set(hw, TX_STATUS_NO_AMPDU_LEN);
  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/net/mac80211.h:2342:57: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
 #define ieee80211_hw_set(hw, flg) _ieee80211_hw_set(hw, IEEE80211_HW_##flg)
                                                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76_new/mt7615/init.c:210:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘ieee80211_hw_set’
  ieee80211_hw_set(hw, TX_STATUS_NO_AMPDU_LEN);
  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[6]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:303: drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76_new/mt7615/init.o] Error 1
make[6]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76_new/mmio.o
  CC      drivers/opp/of.o
make[5]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:544: drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76_new/mt7615] Error 2
make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  CC      drivers/opp/debugfs.o
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You should use newer kernel version. In 5.4 mt7615 is already supported…4.19 was only for testing

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Thank you! I will try 5.4. And also a question. I have built 5.10, but x-server doesn’t work in this version on my board. Why is it? I will be able to make logs at morning.

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Maybe it is because of lima. There are 2 options maybe set (AutoAddGPU,glamoregl)

https://www.fw-web.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en/bpi-r2/hdmi#usage

But you can disable lima or you need to compile mesa libs

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Thank you, Frank! Option “AutoAddGPU” “off” has fixed this issue and 5.10 is working fine.

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Why does eth1 absent in 5.10 and 5.4? Is it normal? 5.10 ip output part:

3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1504 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
4: sit0@NONE: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
5: wan@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
6: lan0@eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master br0 state LOWERLAYERDOWN group default qlen 1000

4.19 ip output part:

2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
4: sit0@NONE: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
5: wan@eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
6: lan0@eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master br0 state LOWERLAYERDOWN group default qlen 1000
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My 4.19 have some patches for second gmac (ethernet connection between soc and switch). But these are unstable and it works with one too. All ports of switch are passed with vlan (similar) over eth0

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Thanks. I’ve corrected my network/interfaces.