On: Making a Linux-managed network switch

[shmerl]

From what I've read, it's very hard to make a 10 Gbps switch without relying on some blobs since those accelerator chip makers don't have any open drivers support.

And you supposedly need those chips since switching it on the CPU is very taxing.

[BertoldVdb → shmerl]

Marvell 88E6393X works in 'dumb/externally managed' mode without firmware. You can use it with Linux switchdev like the one in this article.