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One of my dream projects would be to grab some off-the-shelf switch IC and build OSHW switch around it with fully free blobless Linux based software stack. Some
by zokier 3y ago
One of my dream projects would be to grab some off-the-shelf switch IC and build OSHW switch around it with fully free blobless Linux based software stack. Something like SparX-5 [1] could work here, and the vendor software is already Linux based (but presumably absolutely horrible). The problem is that you'd need fair chunk of cash to get anywhere, so this basically needs a kickstarter or something to get going.
[1] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/vsc7552 https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/vsc7552
- tonyarkles 3y agoYou might be interested in some of the stuff Andrew Zonenberg is working on: https://ioc.exchange/@Azonenberg https://ioc.exchange/@Azonenberg. I don’t have a link to a specific post, he usually has a couple of things on the go and they all get interleaved. Pretty wild Ethernet stuff in there!