[Cake] Cake upstream Planning

[Nils Andreas Svee]

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.