[ovs-dev] porting Open vSwitch to supermicro swithes

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Wed Feb 7 18:31:20 UTC 2018


On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 05:22:44PM +0600, Oleg Matsiyevich wrote:
> Dear colleagues, please tell me whether it is possible to porting your
> solution Open vSwitch for SDN Switches from Supermicro such as
> SSE-X3648S, x86_64 Broadcom Trident2 and SSE-G3648B x86_64 Broadcom
> Helix4 ?

Probably, but Broadcom policies prohibit making the ports open source,
so you will probably have to ask a switch vendor for such a port under
NDA.  Broadcom recently relaxed its policies, but it's not clear to me
yet whether the changes make it possible to have an open source port.


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