Re: Porting Debian arm(hf) to Turris Omnia (open-hardware router)
Hello Ondřej,
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.
> 1. the schematics will be available when we finalize the schema; you can
> check the previous mips based versions here:
> https://www.turris.cz/en/hardware-documentation
> 2. right now it's based on OpenWRT
I took a quick look at the schematic, and the cpu is called
"P2020NSE2MHC". This is the name of a powerpc processor manufactured by
Freescale. Who is wrong here?
This design used a QCA8337N-AL3C switch, I failed to find reliable data
on the net for that quickly, but it seems it needs a binary blob to be
operated by Linux?!
Best regards
Uwe
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