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Date:      Fri, 24 May 2013 21:57:00 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@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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PHY? PHY not? :)

Warner

On May 24, 2013, at 8:17 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Oh god, someone's asking me PHY questions.
>=20
> Which chipset(s) ? What's written on the chip?
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Adrian
>=20
> On 24 May 2013 17:06, Juli Mallett <jmallett@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Adrian,
>>=20
>> Do you know anything about the Atheros F1 PHYs?  We're seeing =
something
>> weird with some hardware using them, not sure if Ubiquiti have any
>> proprietary changes actually-required to support the PHYs properly, =
or if
>> there's maybe some deficiency in our PHY driver that you might know =
about.
>>=20
>> Thanks,
>> Juli.
>>=20
>> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk> =
wrote:
>>>=20
>>> Juli Mallett wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk> =
wrote:
>>>>>=20
>>>>> 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.
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> 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.)
>>>>=20
>>>>> Can't see if they do anything different in the available files, =
but
>>>>> you'll
>>>>> probably be able to spot it straight away :)
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> You had mentioned you saw something related to the Atheros PHYs, =
but I
>>>> don't see it =97 am I missing it?
>>>>=20
>>> there is a kernel message on boot that alludes to a custom phy =
driver, but
>>> it isn't present in the gpl source.
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>> =
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
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> I think you're probably listing those files because they contain
>>>> 'ubnt', but alas they just contain some stuff related to device
>>>> naming.
>>>>=20
>>> Like most vendors I suspect they distribute code minus the private =
stuff
>>>=20
>>>>> 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
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> If you get any more information, that sounds like something that =
would
>>>> be useful.
>>>>=20
>>> I'll have a gander but the same string in their binary-only firmware =
isn't
>>> present in the GPL code.
>>>>=20
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Juli.
>>>=20
>>> If you have any tips on what I can experiment with, I'm happy to do =
that,
>>> I have a few ERLs
>>>=20
>>> Thanks,
>>> Joe
>>=20
>>=20




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