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 >> 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