(DISCLAIMER: I work for Cumulus Networks) On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Phil Mayers <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 15/05/15 19:24, Mark Tinka wrote: > >> >> >> On 15/May/15 18:36, Christian Kratzer wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> this is the time for: >>> >>> <favourite-rant-about-the-virtues-of-open-source-hardware/> >>> >>> immediately followed by: >>> >>> <favourite-rant-about-the-availablity-of-open-source-hardware/> >>> >> >> I think open source hardware is abound. >> > > How open *is* the whitebox stuff? I'm under the impression the > Broadcom-based stuff uses binary blobs compiled into the kernel, and that > coding to it directly entails NDAs and/or SDK licensing? > Broadcom came out with OpenNSL to try to and get around some of this https://github.com/Broadcom-Switch/OpenNSL But generally yes, the company has to pay broadcom for SDK access to build binary blogs. The open part varies based on vendor, but in general is referring to the higher level software (i.e., Cumulus is a Linux distro) and the disaggregation of hardware and software, so you can use the same software on a Dell/HP/Quanta/whatever switch. In the future this will be true for the forwarding ASIC as well. -Pete _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
