Salvaged·Silicon hardware, reverse-engineered back from the dead

Tearing into undocumented hardware — Broadcom ASICs, custom network OS work, SDR protocols — and figuring out how to make dead silicon run again.

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A $25 eBay Switch, Now Running Mainline Linux 6.1

An enterprise switch abandoned on a 2019 kernel — climbed one LTS at a time to a current, security-maintained Linux 6.1, with our own from-scratch NOS driving the Broadcom ASIC.

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The Ghost in the Network Switch: Reverse Engineering 104 LEDs

On the Edgecore AS5610, even the port LEDs are a distributed computing problem — two stack-machine micro-engines running bytecode the main CPU never touches.

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First Packet: A Bare-Metal Switch Running 100% Our Own Code

Five packets sent, five received — across a Broadcom Trident+ ASIC programmed without the proprietary SDK. The milestone, and the ten undocumented walls it took to get there.
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