Martijn van Buul wrote:
> It occurred to me that Garrett D'Amore wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.current:
>   
>> Porting NetBSD would probably be a small effort.  Including support for
>> borgcom wifi in said port would notably _not_ be a small effort.
>>     
>
> That's not the only caveat. Another issue is the built-in switch; these 
> routers all use a 5+1 port VLAN-tagging switch to separate the "WAN" ports
> from the "LAN" ports, which is connected to a single NIC on the CPU. While
> this NIC is probably supported already, our driver doesn't support VLAN
> tagging, and to make things worse the configuration of said switch is 
> undocumented. As far as I know, the bootstrap firmware isolates all switch
> ports on powerup. 
>   

That particular problem is probably solveable.  Not trivially, but not
tremendously painful either.  We have source for some of this stuff,
such as the Marvell switch (mvphy) already.  I have sources for Linux
for a few other variants...

> That said, rumour has it that the *wrt people have reverse-engineered some
> of this.
>   

Or have access to sources provided by others.  :-)


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