[c-nsp] "New" IOS release time frame, when bug is identified

[Pete Lumbis]

(DISCLAIMER: I work for Cumulus Networks)

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>
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