[130981] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henning Brauer)
Mon Oct 18 18:42:17 2010
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:42:04 +0200
From: Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de>
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.vksasewhtfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com> [2010-10-18 21:32]:
> 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.
broadcom being too ashamed to show their code would not surprise me at
all.
however, that is no excuse. especially not when they try to market
this as an "open source" switch.
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