Re: Porting Debian arm(hf) to Turris Omnia (open-hardware router)
On 20.11.2015 19:56, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 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?
I can't say. I haven't worked with any other Marvell switch before.
> 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?
Yes we have that but it is not publicly available yet. I added my
colleague Tomas Hlavacek who's the author of most of the low-level code.
He can send you those patches.
Best Regards,
Martin
>
> Best regards
> Uwe
>
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