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Date:      Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:24:42 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Anton <felix_mail@mail.ru>
Cc:        "\\freebsd-mips@freebsd.org\\" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Re[6]: RB450G compiling the kernel
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Hi!

Cool! Would you mind filing a PR so we can get these bits into FreeBSD-HEAD=
?

Thanks!


-a


On 14 January 2014 22:40, Anton <felix_mail@mail.ru> wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> I use the kernel created from the rev. 234999 with some patches.
> I added mmcsd because my system is installed to the memory card
> and I use etherswitch implementation taken from the last HEAD revisions.
>
> =F3=D5=C2=C2=CF=D4=C1, 4 =D1=CE=D7=C1=D2=D1 2014, 17:29 -08:00 =CF=D4 Adr=
ian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>:
>
> Right. Well, let's try and figure out exactly what we should commit to
> freebsd-head so we have a known working kernel config + hints for the
> RB450.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -a
>
>
> On 4 January 2014 01:05, Anton <felix_mail@mail.ru> wrote:
>> Adrian,
>>
>> I'm using the custom hints for RB450 without including other hint files.
>> Maybe my mistake was in this.
>> --
>>
>> =D7=D4=CF=D2=CE=C9=CB, 31 =C4=C5=CB=C1=C2=D2=D1 2013=C7., 21:57 +0400 =
=CF=D4 Adrian Chadd
>> <adrian@freebsd.org>:
>>
>> Which kernel configuration file are you building with?
>>
>> -a
>>
>> On 31 December 2013 00:23, Anton < felix_mail@mail.ru > wrote:
>>> Adrian thanks!
>>>
>>> I resolved the problem. There was need to add both options in hints fil=
e
>>> at
>>> the same time.
>>>
>>> hints.argemdio.0.at=3D"nexus0"
>>> hints.argemdio.0.
>>> ....
>>> hints.arge.0.at=3D"nexus0"
>>> hints.arge.0.
>>> ....
>>>
>>> =F0=CF=CE=C5=C4=C5=CC=D8=CE=C9=CB, 30 =C4=C5=CB=C1=C2=D2=D1 2013, 11:38=
 -08:00 =CF=D4 Adrian Chadd
>>> < adrian@freebsd.org >:
>>>
>>> On 30 December 2013 03:52, =E1=CE=D4=CF=CE =F0=C5=D4=D5=C8=CF=D7 < feli=
x_mail@mail.ru > wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Can you help me? How can I use AR7161 + AR8316 as two interfaces
>>>> available
>>>> to the kernel? Etherswitch is very good solution, but he's black box f=
or
>>>> me.
>>>> If I try to compile kernel with switch - all is Ok, but in this case
>>>> system
>>>> have only one arge1.
>>>> I need to route traffic between arge0 and arge1 ports... How, how can =
I
>>>> do
>>>> it? :)
>>>
>>> Well, it depends on how it's wired up.
>>>
>>> The AR8316 (and other atheros switches) have an option to peel off one
>>> of the ports as a dedicated PHY port, for situations where you have
>>> two MACs on the SoC and you want to have a WAN port and multiple LAN
>>> ports.
>>>
>>> Theres three ways to do it:
>>>
>>> * have one MAC port, map all switch ports to it, then peel off lan/wan
>>> via VLAN ids
>>> * have two MAC ports, have one port dedicated as a pass-through PHY
>>> for the WAN port and the rest be switch ports for the LAN (vlan or
>>> otherwise)
>>> * a hybrid - have two MAC ports, and just map them using vlan ids or
>>> per-port vlans as required.
>>>
>>> So it boils down to whether the RB450G wires both arge interfaces to
>>> the switch. If so, you can peel off a dedicated WAN PHY/port by
>>> configuring up the 'phy4cpu' option in the hints file. Otherwise it's
>>> vlans all the way down.
>>>
>>>
>>> -adrian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Anton
>
>
>
> --
> =E6=C5=CC=C9=CB=D3 =EB.



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