NIC on RouterBoard 411

[Oleksandr Tymoshenko]

On 2010-01-23, at 1:42 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <20100123204257.GH23141 at darkthrone.kvedulv.de>
>            Michael Moll <kvedulv at kvedulv.de> writes:
> : Hi Warner,
> : 
> : On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:37:10AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : > This is the mask of PHY addresses.  If you have the documentation for
> : > the PHY addresses on your board, create a bitmask from that.  If you
> : > lack documentation, trial an error likely can have good results since
> : > there's only 32 possible addresses the PHYs could be wired to.
> : 
> : Thanks, it now boots multiuser with hint.arge.0.phymask=0x0e
> 
> Cool.  Maybe I'll create a hints file for it.
> 
> btw, do you know if there's a way to determine at run-time if we're
> booting on this board?

Last time I checked hardware configuration was set at build-time. There are  files 
named mach-XXXX.c. Each file acts effectively like FreeBSD's XXXX.hints. Only that
C file is a little bit more flexible then hints description language :)