[130951] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Mon Oct 18 14:30:21 2010
To: "Henning Brauer" <hb-nanog@bsws.de>, nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:25:16 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101018123046.GU10815@nudo.bsws.de>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:30:48 -0400, Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de>
wrote:
> "Currently, the Pica8 driver is released in binary form"
>
> none of the interesting low-level drivers is open. none. zero.
If it's based on a Broadcom chip, trust me, they are doing the world a
favor by not exposing you to the SoC SDK.
(It's so horribly un-documented that it took a week to figure out how to
build it and another two weeks to actually get it to build something that
could be used.)
