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Date:      Sat, 25 May 2013 00:59:09 +0100
From:      Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk>
To:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>, "freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite works multi-user with -CURRENT.
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Juli Mallett wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk> wrote:
>> Looks like theres a couple of modifications and seemingly a bunch of missing
>> cavium specific bits which presumably is their licensed sdk rather than the
>> public one.
> 
> I don't believe so.  The cavm-executive* file in the GPL tarball
> contains most Cavium-specific code.  Then ubnt-platform* contains
> support for IPSec offload.  And so on.  (I decided to just download
> another copy and dig through it a little.)
> 
>> Can't see if they do anything different in the available files, but you'll
>> probably be able to spot it straight away :)
> 
> You had mentioned you saw something related to the Atheros PHYs, but I
> don't see it — am I missing it?
> 
there is a kernel message on boot that alludes to a custom phy driver, 
but it isn't present in the gpl source.

>> http://91.208.177.20/~jwh/ubnt/kernel/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon_info.c
>> http://91.208.177.20/~jwh/ubnt/kernel/drivers/net/octeon/ethernet.c
>> http://91.208.177.20/~jwh/ubnt/kernel/net/core/dev.c
> 
> I think you're probably listing those files because they contain
> 'ubnt', but alas they just contain some stuff related to device
> naming.
> 
Like most vendors I suspect they distribute code minus the private stuff
>> I'm pretty sure their stock firmware also boots up with something along the
>> lines of ath_ubnt_phy driver, will have to double check.. I think I have one
>> left with stock firmware
> 
> If you get any more information, that sounds like something that would
> be useful.
> 
I'll have a gander but the same string in their binary-only firmware 
isn't present in the GPL code.
> Thanks,
> Juli.
If you have any tips on what I can experiment with, I'm happy to do 
that, I have a few ERLs

Thanks,
Joe



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