Possible alternative hardware with similar features. [LWN.net]

Possible alternative hardware with similar features.

Posted Nov 3, 2016 19:28 UTC (Thu) by rknight (subscriber, #26792)
Parent article: The Turris Omnia router: help for the IoT mess?

The SolidRun ClearFog Pro (https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/clearfog/) has similar hardware, is currently available for ~$240 and is supported by the excellent Debian derivative Armbian (http://www.armbian.com/clearfog/). The has unit supports mikroBUS socket allowing you to integrate any of a number of modular extensions from http://www.mikroe.com/click/.

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Possible alternative hardware with similar features.

Posted Nov 5, 2016 4:08 UTC (Sat) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (2 responses)

Is this supported by Linux/u-boot mainline?

Possible alternative hardware with similar features.

Posted Nov 15, 2016 12:31 UTC (Tue) by brill (guest, #111392) [Link] (1 responses)

Not fully: You can build U-Boot for Marvell DB-88F6820 and you will probably be able to pass into monitor. I am going to send certain portion of the patches to upstream, but since we have quite a lot controversial patches that need heavy cleanup - i.e. BtrFS in U-Boot, I think it will take some time.

The DTS for the board has been sent to ML, but even with the DTS mainline kernel still does not support certain peripherals that required hacks due to either errata (i.e. RTC) or general lack of support in mailine (i.e. SFP cage).

We/I would be grateful if anybody takes our/my code in our (public) repos and clean it to state that it can be submitted to upstream. I wanted to do it before releasing the product, but I am still solving a lot of weird interoperability problems with various SFP modules, PCIe cards etc. instead of working on code cleanup.

Possible alternative hardware with similar features.

Posted Nov 15, 2016 12:33 UTC (Tue) by brill (guest, #111392) [Link]

Just to be sure... I commented about Turris Omnia upstream support. Not the alternative boards. :-)