NIC on RouterBoard 411

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <A6CE46CF-246A-402E-BD05-2C785F270A29 at bluezbox.com>
            Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo at bluezbox.com> writes:
: 
: 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 :)

I thought it grovelled through the information passed in from the boot
loader to figure it out...

Warner