NETGRAPH not working on ARM?

[Tim Kientzle]

On May 28, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Ruben de Groot wrote:

> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:07:36AM -0700, Maksim Yevmenkin typed:
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Ruben de Groot <fbsd-arm at bzerk.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to port an embedded bluetooth scanner running debian to FreeBSD on a RPi. De usb dongle is recognized as ubt0, but I can't get it to work.
>>> 
>>> root at raspberry-pi:~ # service bluetooth start ubt0
>>> /etc/rc.d/bluetooth: ERROR: Unable to setup Bluetooth stack for device ubt0
>> 
>> this should not be required if you are running devd(8). devd will
>> automatically issue start when device is attached.
>> 
>>> In my custom kernel I have:
>>> 
>>> # USB bluetooth
>>> options        NETGRAPH                # netgraph(4) system
>>> options        NETGRAPH_BLUETOOTH              # ng_bluetooth(4)
>>> options        NETGRAPH_BLUETOOTH_UBT          # ng_ubt(4)
>>> options        NETGRAPH_BLUETOOTH_HCI          # ng_hci(4)
>>> options        NETGRAPH_BLUETOOTH_BT3C         # ng_bt3c(4)
>>> options        NETGRAPH_BLUETOOTH_L2CAP        # ng_l2cap(4)
>>> options        NETGRAPH_BLUETOOTH_SOCKET       # ng_btsocket(4)
>>> options        NETGRAPH_BLUETOOTH_UBTBCMFW     # ubtbcmfw(4)
>>> 
>>> But:
>>> 
>>> root at raspberry-pi:~ # ngctl list
>>> ngctl: can't create node: No such file or directory
>>> 
>>> Is Netgraph not supposed to work in freebsd-arm?
>> 
>> you are missing more netgraph modules, NETGRAPH_SOCKET is missing for
>> sure. would it be possible to try and use modular GENERIC kernel first
>> and get it to work before try stripping things down.
> 
> Thanks for your reply Max
> There is no GENERIC kernel ;). Unfortunately, on arm, my understanding is that loadable modules are not (yet?) supported. They are surely not being build. 

We should be building modules for RPi and a few other
popular boards by default.

We should run some build tests to see how broken it
is before committing the one-line change.  It's been
a while since I tried building "all modules" ….

Tim