| 8 Jul 2025 |
 hexa | the problem will of course be broadcom firmware/drivers in most scenarios 🤪 | 13:05:19 |
 Molly Miller | i was about to say, that trick only works if you have a kernel driver for the asic, right? | 13:05:34 |
| Molly Miller | i have a number of whitelabel onie switches at work but they're all broadcom asics | 13:05:47 |
| hexa | the alternative is something from mellanox, but those are sfp+/sfp28 and larger only iirc | 13:05:49 |
| hexa | yeah, the mellanox ones have mainline support | 13:06:03 |
| hexa | the broadcom ones are fckd | 13:06:13 |
 Emantor | Broadcom, more like: https://github.com/mwarning/chaos-sticker-collection/blob/9f0415d815bbef4a01bf55bc3fe57bb75e4247bd/images/brokencom/brokencom.svg#L4 | 13:06:24 |
| hexa | so no copper connections | 13:06:27 |
 emily | yeah I hadn't actually read them when I said that 😆 | 13:06:43 |
| emily | I just saw "managed" | 13:06:47 |
| hexa | though you can do dacs and copper sfps | 13:06:49 |
| Molly Miller | short of yanking the cumulus kernel sources package and switchd binary debs from the nvidia mirror and hacking something together | 13:06:55 |
| hexa | * though you can do dacs/aocs and copper sfps | 13:06:58 |
| Molly Miller | which, well, probably isn't really worth the effort | 13:07:18 |
| emily | I wish I could justify the price of the https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/sn2010-linux-hacking-switchdev one | 13:07:42 |
