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Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch


From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:25:16 -0400

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.

(It's so horribly un-documented that it took a week to figure out how to build it and another two weeks to actually get it to build something that could be used.)


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