On 15.11.2015 10:05, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Hi Uwe, > > (I'll respond to others later next week). > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2015, at 22:07, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: >> Hello Ondřej, >> >> 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. > >>> 1. the schematics will be available when we finalize the schema; you can >>> check the previous mips based versions here: >>> https://www.turris.cz/en/hardware-documentation >>> 2. right now it's based on OpenWRT >> >> I took a quick look at the schematic, and the cpu is called >> "P2020NSE2MHC". This is the name of a powerpc processor manufactured by >> Freescale. Who is wrong here? > > This is Turris 1.0 and 1.1 schematics that were used in the security > project of ours. > > Turris Omnia uses Marvell Armada 385. > >> This design used a QCA8337N-AL3C switch, I failed to find reliable data >> on the net for that quickly, but it seems it needs a binary blob to be >> operated by Linux?! > > As far as I know the only thing that needs the binary blob is the > default AC wifi cards in the complete package (not just the board), but > you can use any wifi card that you like. That's right. Apart from the wifi card (ath10k) Omnia doesn't need any firmware blobs. QCA8337N-AL3C doesn't need any blob as well. The memory with bootstrap code you've probably read about is optional. Martin > > Ondrej > -- Martin Strbacka CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o. tel. +420 604 217 854
