Hello Martin, On 11/20/2015 03:49 PM, Martin Strbačka wrote: > On 15.11.2015 10:05, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015, at 22:07, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: >>> On 11/13/2015 02:55 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote: >>>> we (@CZ.NIC) built open-hardware[1] and open-source[2] router called >>>> Turris Omnia (https://omnia.turris.cz/en/); I spoke about it shortly >>>> @DebConf15 lightning talks, and now we have IGG campaign >>>> (http://igg.me/at/turris-omnia) - and some people are already asking >>>> about running pure Debian on the box. >>>> >>>> And here's the question -> would anybody be willing to help us port >>>> Debian armhf in exchange of the prototype? We can help with uboot, and >>>> switchchip, but it will need some work anyway, etc... >>> >>> Sounds interesting. Which switch do you consider to use? Will there be >>> open documentation available? Under an NDA? My dayjob is to support >>> companies to put Linux on their hardware and the usual scenario is that >>> the manufacturer isn't allowed to share the documentation of switches >>> with us. >> >> Definitely not Broadcom as we are too small for them to even notice. I >> am Ccing my colleague Martin, who is the head of the project, and he can >> answer in more detail. > > Hello, the switch-chip is Marvell 88E6176. Unfortunately you are right > we are not allowed to share the documentation.
Is this device similar to a previous switch model by Marvell? It seems openwrt already knows a bit about this switch. I will check in the next few days if I consider getting support for that one into the mainline kernel manageable for me. Other than that I wouldn't expect big problems. Do you have a preliminary device tree or even openwrt support patches already? Best regards Uwe
