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Their Sparx-5 line is supported by stock upstream Linux switchdev.
by kijiki 2y ago
Their Sparx-5 line is supported by stock upstream Linux switchdev.
- stragies 2y agoIntrigued by that, I went looking. First commit of support was 2019, for Linux5.2. Yet, 5 years later, there is not one example (that i could find) of OpenWrt running on these Chips. If the platform/FW/BSP package were any good, I'd expect there to be chat about it in the forums, and/or attempts to port to such devices from SMBStaX (The Microchip BSP Linux dist).
- inhumantsar 2y agoI suspect it's not worth the effort for most people. People who want to DIY a switch are likely content to brute force it with a decent cpu, multiport network cards, and lots of PCIe lanes. While others will be happy with a used enterprise OEM unit. Does make me wonder what asics Microtik is using under the hood though...
- MartijnBraam 2y agoA lot of them are just networking SoCs with built in switching fabrics or the lower end ones have the low end router SoC from various manufacturers. Mikrotik is one of the few brands that actually list this in the spec sheets.
- zokier 2y agoYou are right, the situation is better that what I thought, the commercial smbstax SDK might not be absolutely required. They even have some BSP stuff freely available which is really positive sign. https://github.com/microchip-ung/bsp-doc https://github.com/microchip-ung/bsp-doc This would be such an enticing project to jump into, there are just enough bits to make it seem doable, even if the realist in me knows its not really feasible.