On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 10:37 -0400, Abylay Ospan wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm working on Facebook's Open Compute CBW (Campus, Branch, and > Wireless) project [1]. OCP CBW mission is: > "Closed wireless and branch networking equipment have served well in > the past but now is the time to democratize wireless networking to > make it programmable, faster, easier, and less expensive for > customers > and give everyone the power of choice like never before" > > We have made some research and choose LEDE/OpenWrt as base system > (thanks for LEDE/OpenWrt advantages :). Question about relation > between LEDE and OpenWrt is not clear to me now. Is everybody suggest > to switch to LEDE codebase ? It should be not big deal as I see. > Currently I have some kernel patches that can be applied to LEDE (may > be without modifications).
OpenWRT is for the most part, dead. LEDE is where all the new development happens. > > Hardware options is: > 3 Broadcom based designs (802.11 AC Wave 1) [2] > 2 Qualcomm based designs (802.11 AC WAVE 2) > More planned by other H/W ODMs in 2017/18 > > All devices is open hardware in some terms. > > I have started github repo for adopting OpenWrt to this hardware: > https://github.com/aospan/openwrt/commits/ocp > > Currently main AP I'm working on is EdgeCore ECW7220-L [2]. CPU, RAM, > Flash, Ethernet is supported now. There is also two wifi pci-e > adapters: > 01:00.0 Class 0280: 14e4:43a2 > 01:00.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4331 > > "14e4:4331" is supported by b43 driver in 2.4GHz only mode (this is > ok). Second adapter "14e4:43a2" doesn't supported by brcmsmac (this > adapter is soft-mac). Now I'm trying to make this adapter working > with > brcmsmac. > Also, there is plans to adopt/create solution for modern Software > Defined Network model based on OpenWRT. All projects will be Open > Source. > We are open for new participants. If you are interested please drop > me > a message or send reply to ML for public discussion. > And happily we have possibilities to rise some funds to make some > tasks payable. > > Links: > [1] http://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Networking/CBWCampus2cBranch2CAn > dWireless > [2] http://www.edge-core.com/productsInfo.php?cls=3&cls2=19&cls3=24&; > id=112 > _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
