On Jun 13, 2011, at 12:38 AM, der Mouse wrote: >> Their RB450G, RB750G, and some other new boards incorporate dedicated >> switch controllers wired to the onboard ethernet ports. [...] > >> Wouldn't it be nice to have something like this on our Soekris >> boards? > > Provided the hardware is publicly documented, this would rock. > (Publicly documented, as in, whatever hardware docs I need to write > drivers for it in my OS of choice are freely available; just "it's a > FooCorp XYZ9876 at address 0x123456xx" doesn't count unless that chip's > docs qualify.)
it's an atheros 7130 (the rb450g) system on a chip, and functionality of the switch is pretty well supported by open/dd-wrt it however grfted on a mips processor which is somewhat less useful in the soekris context. > /~\ The ASCII Mouse > \ / Ribbon Campaign > X Against HTML [email protected] > / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
