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Date:      Fri, 24 May 2013 19:17:19 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
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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Oh god, someone's asking me PHY questions.

Which chipset(s) ? What's written on the chip?



Adrian

On 24 May 2013 17:06, Juli Mallett <jmallett@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Adrian,
>
> 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=
.
>
> Thanks,
> Juli.
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> 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 tha=
n
>>>> 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 =97 am I missing it?
>>>
>> there is a kernel message on boot that alludes to a custom phy driver, b=
ut
>> it isn't present in the gpl source.
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> http://91.208.177.20/~jwh/ubnt/kernel/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon_i=
nfo.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 alon=
g
>>>> the
>>>> lines of ath_ubnt_phy driver, will have to double check.. I think I ha=
ve
>>>> 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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