Hi, Peter

You have any clue which datasheet for FC chip should be referred to. For me,
it seems that it is not similar to F chip or not totally same with M chip.

Regards,
Chun Yeow

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Peter Lebbing <pe...@digitalbrains.com>wrote:
>
>
> It works as I described on the M chip. It was suggested (by Jonas I
> believe)
> that the FC might not have the possibility to use both untagged and tagged
> membership on the same port. With regard to the filtering capabilities, no
> idea.
>
> I plan to implement identification of M and FC chips and having the driver
> behave differently for the chips.
>
> I suggest I initially submit a driver for inclusion in OpenWRT that only
> works
> for the M chip. I feel I have sufficiently tested that target that it ought
> to
> work for people with an M chip. It is unfortunate that nobody else appears
> to
> have it :).
>
> And then, I could have the driver support the FC chip in a manner where a
> port
> is either member of one or more tagged VLANs or member of exactly one
> untagged
> VLAN, since that is a configuration that appears to work for you, with your
> patch. You could then test that driver. I don't really feel comfortable
> submitting a driver for inclusion in OpenWRT for a device I do not have
> myself,
> but obviously you or someone else is free to submit that version. It's GPL
> after
> all :).
>
> Apparently there are a lot more people with FC chips. Having this
> functionality
> I intend to implement is already a great start, I suppose. Perhaps the FC
> can be
> coaxed to do more stuff as well.
>
> If somebody has better ideas on how to handle this properly and to
> everybody's
> satisfaction, feel free to offer a suggestion.
>
> Peter.
>
> PS: Not sure on how long it will take me to produce the two versions of the
> driver. We'll just have to see when it's ready.
>
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