[OpenWrt-Devel] General questions about the direction of switch drivers

[David Lang]

Having a more abstract way of managing this available is a nice option to have, 
but I would hate to loose the ability to set things explicitly.

Keeping in mind that we are primarily dealing with low-end devices, anything 
that requires more advanced chipsets just isn't going to happen. The chipsets 
will progress, but what gets put into the APs is going to be the cheapest swtich 
chipset that will do the job of a dumb switch. The fact that this cheapest 
chipset also happens to be able to do a lot more is a very nice bonus for us.

Remember that the vendors want to also offer the "Enterprise" APs with the 
advanced capabilities.

David Lang

On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote:

> I for one would love to see brctl and vconfig disappear completely in
> favour of ovs-* based standard toolchain for all switch interaction.
>
> Certainly in the Bigger iron area, and things like core and cumulus coupled
> with SDN approaches and Openstack this is fast becoming defacto. I don't
> see why with a bit of additional abstraction that ovs couldn't become the
> default stack for mainline and certainly for OpenWRT it offers a lot more
> versatility than the current brctl and vconfig tools.
>
> I guess the biggest issue is getting ovs- offload to switch chipsets rather
> than CPU bound softswitch. Maybe some sort of flag where unsupported
> operations/modes which would end up being done on the CPU are
> flagged/masked?
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