[LEDE-DEV] LEDE/OpenWrt and Open Compute Project (OCP)

[Abylay Ospan]

Hello All,

I'm working on Facebook's Open Compute CBW (Campus, Branch, and
Wireless) project [1]. OCP CBW mission is:
"Closed wireless and branch networking equipment have served well in
the past but now is the time to democratize wireless networking to
make it programmable, faster, easier, and less expensive for customers
and give everyone the power of choice like never before"

We have made some research and choose LEDE/OpenWrt as base system
(thanks for LEDE/OpenWrt advantages :). Question about relation
between LEDE and OpenWrt is not clear to me now. Is everybody suggest
to switch to LEDE codebase ? It should be not big deal as I see.
Currently I have some kernel patches that can be applied to LEDE (may
be without modifications).

Hardware options is:
3 Broadcom based designs (802.11 AC Wave 1)    [2]
2 Qualcomm based designs (802.11 AC WAVE 2)
More planned by other H/W ODMs in 2017/18

All devices is open hardware in some terms.

I have started github repo for adopting OpenWrt to this hardware:
https://github.com/aospan/openwrt/commits/ocp

Currently main AP I'm working on is EdgeCore ECW7220-L [2]. CPU, RAM,
Flash, Ethernet is supported now. There is also two wifi pci-e
adapters:
01:00.0 Class 0280: 14e4:43a2
01:00.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4331

"14e4:4331" is supported by b43 driver in 2.4GHz only mode (this is
ok). Second adapter "14e4:43a2" doesn't supported by brcmsmac (this
adapter is soft-mac). Now I'm trying to make this adapter working with
brcmsmac.
Also, there is plans to adopt/create solution for modern Software
Defined Network model based on OpenWRT. All projects will be Open
Source.
We are open for new participants. If you are interested please drop me
a message or send reply to ML for public discussion.
And happily we have possibilities to rise some funds to make some tasks payable.

Links:
 [1] http://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Networking/CBWCampus2cBranch2CAndWireless
 [2] http://www.edge-core.com/productsInfo.php?cls=3&cls2=19&cls3=24&id=112

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Abylay Ospan,
JokerSys
http://jokersys.com