edgenos

2 posts, in order.

• 2026-04-15 deep dive

  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.

  #reverse-engineering#broadcom#edgecore#bare-metal#packet-io#dma#embedded-linux#edgenos
• 2026-06-14 deep dive

  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.

  #reverse-engineering#edgecore#broadcom#linux-kernel#embedded-linux#e-waste#edgenos