On 20.11.2015 19:56, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > 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?
I can't say. I haven't worked with any other Marvell switch before. > 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? Yes we have that but it is not publicly available yet. I added my colleague Tomas Hlavacek who's the author of most of the low-level code. He can send you those patches. Best Regards, Martin > > Best regards > Uwe > -- Martin Strbacka CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o. tel. +420 604 217 854
