On Nov 15, 2017, at 11:40 PM, Nils Andreas Svee <me@lochnair.net> wrote:

Mostly because of the Cavium and MediaTek SDKs yes. However in my quest to use a newer kernel I found that EdgeOS/Vyatta uses UnionFS which is not supported on newer kernels than 3.16, so that's gotta be fixed first too. In VyOS they've solved this by using UnionFS-Fuse.

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017, at 21:58, Pete Heist wrote:

On Nov 15, 2017, at 9:28 PM, Nils Andreas Svee <nils@stokkdalen.no> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017, at 21:19, Dave Taht wrote:

There’s also been a Cake support feature request hanging around in the EdgeOS

forums for a while after Lochnair’s successful work to get it built for the

EdgeRouter firmware:

https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-Feature-Requests/Cake-shaper-support/idi-p/1885749

I had viewed those folk as a key path to commercialization. They have

a great user community and great products.

Maybe this would help get it pushed through into a device that I think has

pretty wide deployment…

The problem is, they were stuck on kernel 3.10, when last I looked and

oy...

I keep hoping we can get cavium to pay attention directly.

Sadly they're still stuck 3.10. The next FW will be based on the

3.10.107 kernel, instead of 3.10.14/3.10.20. So that's something, but

it's still ancient and EOL.

Is the tie to 3.10 due to the dependency on the Cavium SDK for hardware support?

Surprisingly I don’t see a feature request so far for a newer kernel, at least among the first half dozen pages or so:

https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-Feature-Requests/idb-p/EdgeMAX_Ideas/tab/most-kudoed

Best Regards

Nils