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

[rosenp at gmail.com]

On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 10:37 -0400, Abylay Ospan wrote:
> 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).

OpenWRT	is for the most part, dead. LEDE is where all the new
development happens.

> 
> 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/CBWCampus2cBranch2CAn
> dWireless
>  [2] http://www.edge-core.com/productsInfo.php?cls=3&cls2=19&cls3=24&
> id=112
>