On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:54 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Christian! > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Christian Tacke < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hi Ondrej, >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 17:52:31 +0100, Ondrej Filip wrote: >> >>> Hi BIRD users! >>> >> [...] >> >> while we have the Q&A round: >> >> >> 3) Because I was quite frustrated on a late cheap switch >> buy (that thing does not even know, whether the SFP >> module is plugged in, until the optical link is up!): >> Does the SFP slot sllow the full diagnostic stuff? >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form-factor_pluggable_transceiver#Digital_diagnostics_monitoring >> > > Theoretically yes: The I2C lines from the SFP cage are connected to the > main CPU and the Linux I2C interface is going to be accessible from user > space. By now we have tested only reading from EEPROM in a SFP module but > not the DDM part. I am adding this to my to-do list. Thanks for bringing > this up! And we - or anybody interested - might port or create some tool > for reading and interpreting DDM data. It should be quite simple to do. > > And regarding Debian question from the another mail: Yes, I am actually > running Debian on my prototype board. I simply created debootstrap image > and put it to the eMMC. The only difference is a custom kernel with dozen > patches (we are going to send them to upstream, but is might take some time > to get them merged) and swconfig tool from OpenWRT. > > Tomas > > > > I really like the responsive nature of the team. Is there a mailing list just for the router project that we should join to keep up?
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