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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.
> 
> Which chipset(s) ? What's written on the chip?
> 
> 
> 
> Adrian
> 
> On 24 May 2013 17:06, Juli Mallett <jmallett at 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 at rewt.org.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Juli Mallett wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Joe Holden <lists at 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 than
>>>>> 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 — am I missing it?
>>>> 
>>> there is a kernel message on boot that alludes to a custom phy driver, but
>>> it isn't present in the gpl source.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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 along
>>>>> the
>>>>> lines of ath_ubnt_phy driver, will have to double check.. I think I have
>>>>> 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
>> 
>>