Re: Porting Debian arm(hf) to Turris Omnia (open-hardware router)
Hello Martin,
On 11/20/2015 03:49 PM, Martin Strbačka wrote:
> On 15.11.2015 10:05, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015, at 22:07, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Definitely not Broadcom as we are too small for them to even notice. I
>> am Ccing my colleague Martin, who is the head of the project, and he can
>> answer in more detail.
>
> Hello, the switch-chip is Marvell 88E6176. Unfortunately you are right
> we are not allowed to share the documentation.
Is this device similar to a previous switch model by Marvell? It seems
openwrt already knows a bit about this switch. I will check in the next
few days if I consider getting support for that one into the mainline
kernel manageable for me. Other than that I wouldn't expect big
problems. Do you have a preliminary device tree or even openwrt support
patches already?
Best regards
Uwe
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