Turris Omnia - campaign ends soon

[Andrew Latham]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:54 PM, <tomas.hlavacek at nic.cz> wrote:

> Hi Christian!
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Christian Tacke <
> Christian.Tacke+bird.network.cz at cosmokey.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Ondrej,
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 17:52:31 +0100, Ondrej Filip wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi BIRD users!
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>> while we have the Q&A round:
>>
>>
>> 3) Because I was quite frustrated on a late cheap switch
>>    buy (that thing does not even know, whether the SFP
>>    module is plugged in, until the optical link is up!):
>>    Does the SFP slot sllow the full diagnostic stuff?
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form-factor_pluggable_transceiver#Digital_diagnostics_monitoring
>>
>
> Theoretically yes: The I2C lines from the SFP cage are connected to the
> main CPU and the Linux I2C interface is going to be accessible from user
> space. By now we have tested only reading from EEPROM in a SFP module but
> not the DDM part. I am adding this to my to-do list. Thanks for bringing
> this up! And we - or anybody interested - might port or create some tool
> for reading and interpreting DDM data. It should be quite simple to do.
>
> And regarding Debian question from the another mail: Yes, I am actually
> running Debian on my prototype board. I simply created debootstrap image
> and put it to the eMMC. The only difference is a custom kernel with dozen
> patches (we are going to send them to upstream, but is might take some time
> to get them merged) and swconfig tool from OpenWRT.
>
> Tomas
>
>
>
>
I really like the responsive nature of the team. Is there a mailing list
just for the router project that we should join to keep up?

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~ Andrew "lathama" Latham lathama at gmail.com http://lathama.net ~
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