Subject: Re: any 'brconfig' on NetBSD?
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/05/2001 16:32:02
> > >My problem is that 'brconfig' is not present on the NetBSD.
> > >Is there a way to configure the kernel or ddevices to support bridging
> > >in any way on NetBSD?
> >
> > the bridging code was added to netbsd recently, but unfortunately it
> > doesn't work on mac68k machines because they lack generic soft
> > interrupt support.
> >
> > sorry...looks like no bridge.
>
>Uh... the bridge code doesn't currently use soft interrupts at all...
>
>What's the issue, here?
the last three lines of net/netisr_dispatch.h look like this:
#if NBRIDGE > 0 && !defined(__HAVE_GENERIC_SOFT_INTERRUPTS)
DONETISR(NETISR_BRIDGE,bridgenetisr);
#endif
and there's no such routine as bridgenetisr, so those ports that don't
__HAVE_GENERIC_SOFT_INTERRUPTS, don't have bridge support.
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