Tomaž Zaman has been working on building a new prosumer level router, and was about to build a new OS from scratch. Several comments asked him to try making VyOS work, and he did. Check out the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbCQ5DXwUhI
It’s especially interesting with his router being ARM based instead of x86.
It’s a super exciting project, and a partnership with Vyos for native hardware support would be fantastic.
The potential for Tomaž to build a polished UI over Vyos might be the silver lining. Many users have been looking forward to a UI for quite some time.
A formal collaboration, perhaps…
Did he ever release the source? I was building an 1.4 version for the same SOC a while back, and it was a pain to get the kernel config right (not just booting, but running at proper speeds)
From what I understand (only having the same information as you) that Tomaž is still working on getting the vendor provided drivers to work which are not open source. I guess we’ll find in the next monthly update video where that’s at.
He could still release the modifications needed even if he cant release the propertiary drivers themselves. Would probably help other ARM attempts.
Have seen this a couple of times specially with all the “VyOS is locking down the code” drama earlier this year - those who complained the most against that strategy didnt release the source code themselves either when asked about it.
Hopefully he can shortly release his findings as text/code to help the next one attempting the ARM path.
yeah, my attempt was public, but got broken by the new flavor build system before i could commit it back, and now the qcow2 builds are completely broken, so I will not be able to send them back upstream
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