RB450G compiling the kernel

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi!

Cool! Would you mind filing a PR so we can get these bits into FreeBSD-HEAD?

Thanks!


-a


On 14 January 2014 22:40, Anton <felix_mail at mail.ru> wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> I use the kernel created from the rev. 234999 with some patches.
> I added mmcsd because my system is installed to the memory card
> and I use etherswitch implementation taken from the last HEAD revisions.
>
> Суббота, 4 января 2014, 17:29 -08:00 от Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>:
>
> Right. Well, let's try and figure out exactly what we should commit to
> freebsd-head so we have a known working kernel config + hints for the
> RB450.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -a
>
>
> On 4 January 2014 01:05, Anton <felix_mail at mail.ru> wrote:
>> Adrian,
>>
>> I'm using the custom hints for RB450 without including other hint files.
>> Maybe my mistake was in this.
>> --
>>
>> вторник, 31 декабря 2013г., 21:57 +0400 от Adrian Chadd
>> <adrian at freebsd.org>:
>>
>> Which kernel configuration file are you building with?
>>
>> -a
>>
>> On 31 December 2013 00:23, Anton < felix_mail at mail.ru > wrote:
>>> Adrian thanks!
>>>
>>> I resolved the problem. There was need to add both options in hints file
>>> at
>>> the same time.
>>>
>>> hints.argemdio.0.at="nexus0"
>>> hints.argemdio.0.
>>> ....
>>> hints.arge.0.at="nexus0"
>>> hints.arge.0.
>>> ....
>>>
>>> Понедельник, 30 декабря 2013, 11:38 -08:00 от Adrian Chadd
>>> < adrian at freebsd.org >:
>>>
>>> On 30 December 2013 03:52, Антон Петухов < felix_mail at mail.ru > wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Can you help me? How can I use AR7161 + AR8316 as two interfaces
>>>> available
>>>> to the kernel? Etherswitch is very good solution, but he's black box for
>>>> me.
>>>> If I try to compile kernel with switch - all is Ok, but in this case
>>>> system
>>>> have only one arge1.
>>>> I need to route traffic between arge0 and arge1 ports... How, how can I
>>>> do
>>>> it? :)
>>>
>>> Well, it depends on how it's wired up.
>>>
>>> The AR8316 (and other atheros switches) have an option to peel off one
>>> of the ports as a dedicated PHY port, for situations where you have
>>> two MACs on the SoC and you want to have a WAN port and multiple LAN
>>> ports.
>>>
>>> Theres three ways to do it:
>>>
>>> * have one MAC port, map all switch ports to it, then peel off lan/wan
>>> via VLAN ids
>>> * have two MAC ports, have one port dedicated as a pass-through PHY
>>> for the WAN port and the rest be switch ports for the LAN (vlan or
>>> otherwise)
>>> * a hybrid - have two MAC ports, and just map them using vlan ids or
>>> per-port vlans as required.
>>>
>>> So it boils down to whether the RB450G wires both arge interfaces to
>>> the switch. If so, you can peel off a dedicated WAN PHY/port by
>>> configuring up the 'phy4cpu' option in the hints file. Otherwise it's
>>> vlans all the way down.
>>>
>>>
>>> -adrian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Anton
>
>
>
> --
> Феликс К.