From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 9 03:22:32 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB4A856D; Sun, 9 Feb 2014 03:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lhr1.as41113.net (mail.lhr1.as41113.net [91.208.177.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896191D22; Sun, 9 Feb 2014 03:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.193.246.16] (unknown [91.208.177.186]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.lhr1.as41113.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3fMFtF1FDNz7vbc; Sun, 9 Feb 2014 03:22:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <52F6F473.5060501@rewt.org.uk> Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 03:22:27 +0000 From: Joe Holden User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juli Mallett , Outback Dingo Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10.0 image and build script for EdgeRouter Lite References: <20140125210308.GA6936@rtfm.net> <52EE7183.1070806@pix.net> <20140205190456.GA15313@plebeian.afflictions.org> <52F64128.7010000@rewt.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 03:22:32 -0000 On 09/02/2014 01:34, Juli Mallett wrote: > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Outback Dingo > wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Juli Mallett > wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Joe Holden > wrote: > > > On 08/02/2014 00:23, Juli Mallett wrote: > >> > >> The most likely scenario is that very minor changes will be > required to > >> support the additional model, possibly as little as just > recognizing its > >> model identifier. > >> > >> Juli.... > >> > > > > IIRC the bigger variants are Octeon II with hardware switches > (likely > > marvell/broadcom) - what are the chances of getting support > for either > > given the NDA requirements? > > > > okay so wait, should i buy the light and not risk getting the pro > and npot having it worlk? Id really like the pro version > > > The Pro definitely won't work out-of-the-box because its model > identifier would at minimum need added to FreeBSD. The question is how > hard it would be to support. It seems to be based on the CN6120, so I'd > be concerned that any number of things could present a problem, > primarily USB support and Ethernet. I know that some on this list were > very disappointed with a similar device (albeit with some different > hardware) that it was difficult to find someone to work on. I've got > hardware for that even though I don't have the EdgeRouter Pro, but > ENOTIME. I would be happy to help someone else try to walk through the > process, or encourage you to contact Cavium asking if they have any > interest in helping further to support FreeBSD on Octeon II. I know > that for some vendors FreeBSD availability on Octeon is a selling point, > and I'd like to think that at some point that will mean someone will > have the interest in doing the work, or funding the work. > > Thanks, > Juli. Given that I couldn't even get a response from Cavium when trying to give them some money I wouldn't even bother - they have no interest in helping unless you're going to buy 10s of 1000s of units