That's a very cheap price for enterprise layer 3 switching chip. Thanks for the info, how this switch chip has escaped me is very perplexing. Can you elaborate

That's a very cheap price for enterprise layer 3 switching chip. Thanks for the info, how this switch chip has escaped me is very perplexing. Can you elaborate on their Linux-based package, is the package critical for the development and using the chip with embedded Linux. Can we just use it as switching fabric and use Intel CPU for example N100 as the main controller running Linux? The sibling comment also mentioned that Sparx-5 line is supported by stock upstream Linux switchdev, and this the same chip as in your link.