[Cerowrt-devel] So how far behind is the embedded router world, still?

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In some ways, the quickness is good, beats the old days of ATT monopoly never innovating except over 10 year incremental cycles.

But Linux isn't capable of quick innovation. It's too overcomplicated. Too many parts barely fit together, or don't. Huge config files encoding same info in inconsistent ways. Poor cross compilation architecture, if there is one at all. Days long build cycles.

Then throw in UEFI which has to be built on Windows to get it right.

Not a system that can chase innovation of the small kind. Hardware is now like software in how varied it can be. But software is no longer about flexibility of abstraction. Every Linux is a Time Sharing System.


-----Original Message-----
From: "Joel Wirāmu Pauling" <***@aenertia.net>
Sent: Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 4:34 pm
To: "Dave Taht" <***@gmail.com>
Cc: "Dave Taht" <***@gmail.com>, "Jonathan Morton" <***@gmail.com>, cerowrt-***@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] So how far behind is the embedded router world, still?

Just a note - a lot of this mess is due to China's rapid dev cycles and
race to the bottom on cost vs supply.

Generally a fab house who is in turn contracted by an OEM in China will
have 1 maybe 2 engineers who will do the initial low level C bits required
for a product/board. They get it working on whatever build environment they
have at hand and chuck it over the fence to product unit who ship it. Then
moving onto the next contract never to be seen from again.


-Joel

How would one get Linux Foundation to raise money to sponsor a router

software initiative?
We tried. Personally, having bled out mentally and financially more
than once, I am not up to trying again. They don't return our calls
anymore.

I can see that all the current network product OEMs might mass up to

kill it or make it fail. Kind of like coreboot vs. UEFI.

But maybe Facebook or Amazon or Google - dedicated white-box fan

companies - might do it. Or maybe there's a Chinese funding source.
Well, try to sort through
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesnycouncil/2018/07/26/
why-you-should-start-looking-at-googles-flutter-and-
fuchsia-now/#795943a6a309
As for china, sure, that would be great. Europe, sure. I think china
has a huge incentive to get into making better firmware in
collaboration with europe. As for america...

-----Original Message-----
From: "Jonathan Morton"
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 10:13am
To: "Mikael Abrahamsson"
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] So how fHow wouar behind is the embedded

router world, still?

On 26 Jul, 2018, at 11:53 am, Mikael Abrahamsson
they seem to live in a world where you take a linux kernel that's

announced as LTS (in the best of worlds), work on that for 1-2 years during
which you release an SDK, which then the device manufacturers will take and
start putting their solutions on, which takes another 1-2 years before it
reaches customers.

This in itself sounds like a colossal waste of developer man-hours.

Which really just serves to underline how clueless CPE vendors are - about
their core business, no less.

They obviously have a lot more resources than we do. What could *we* do

with that level of funding and organisation? Take six months, and put out
a router that *doesn't* suck for a change!

- Jonathan Morton
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