#broadcom

• 2026-06-15 field note

  The "Linux on my Switch" Dream: A Reverse Engineering Journey 🐧

  #linux#reverse-engineering#broadcom#open-source#networking#systems-engineering#ai#hardware-hacking#edgecore#homelab#embedded-systems
• 2026-06-15 field note

  The "Open Networking" Dream vs. The Homelab Reality 🛑

  #networking#homelab#open-source#edgecore#linux#whitebox-switching#broadcom#reverse-engineering#embedded-systems#tech-community#ewaste#disaggregation
• 2026-06-14 deep dive · series: edgenos

  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
• 2026-05-15 deep dive · series: bcm56846

  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.

  #reverse-engineering#embedded-systems#broadcom#edgecore#linux-kernel#asic
• 2026-04-15 deep dive · series: edgenos

  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