White Rabbit Switch Software
Introduction
This project has been created on 2010-09-21 to host all the software
used in the WR switch,
the main component of the White
Rabbit project.
We are now at August 2012 and the project is released. Complete
documentation, as well as
pre-built binaries to be installed to the switch are in the
Files section of
the ohwr project
(please pick the most recent, older ones are kept online to help
previous users to rebuild
their environment unchanged).
The following software components are currently being used to boot the switch:
- at91bootstrap-3.3
- barebox-2014.04
- linux-3.16.38
- buildroot-2016.02
- all the custom stuff included in this OHWR project
Project information
- Current firmware release
- FAQs List of Frequently Asked Questions for the switch.
- Version Compatibility Tells which HW, SW & GW is compatible.
- Complete documentation and pre-built binaries for the switch
Roadmap for software releases
v5.0 | v5.0.1 | |
---|---|---|
Release date | 16/12/2016 | 25/08/2017 |
Updated Buildroot 2016.02 | x | |
Updated Linux kernel 3.16.38 | x | |
Fixed SNMP objects not updating in some cases | x | |
WR interface indexes matching the front panel enumeration | x | |
64-bit frame counters | x | |
Verification of firmware before updating | x | |
VLANs configuration in dot-config | x | |
Menuconfig on the switch to modify local dot-config | x | |
New port role to disable PTP | x | |
Further improvement of LED signalization | x | |
Make Syslog more verbose when errors are reported | x | |
wr_mon improvements [1109], [1195], [1277] | x | |
Boot procedure improvements [1363], [1217] | x | |
SFP handling improvements [1278] [1364] [1365] | x | |
dot-config improvements [1055], [1236], [1366], [1388] | x | |
Leap seconds file updated | x | |
Fixed USB flashing broken in v5.0 | x | |
make menuconfig fixes [1518], [1525], [1584] | x | |
SNMP fixes [1590], [1632] | x | |
Webinterface fixes [1528], [1570] | x | |
PPSI pre-master fix | x |
For pre- v4.2 features please check previous releases wiki page.
Status
Date | Event |
---|---|
21-09-2010 | Start of project. |
07-08-2012 | First release of wr-switch-sw-v3.0 (called V3 as runs on V3 hardware. |
20-12-2012 | Release 3.1, that fixes issues in v3.0 (now deprecated) |
26-07-2013 | Release 3.3, first official release for hardware version 3.3 |
10-07-2013 | Release 4.0rc1, release-candidate for 4.0 sw/gw on 3.3 hardware |
08-08-2014 | Stable v4.0 release |
19-08-2014 | Hotfix for v4.0 release (v4.0.1) |
04-10-2014 | Release 4.1, with support for new main board |
28-08-2015 | Release 4.2 is out |
16-12-2016 | Release 5.0 is out |
25-08-2017 | Release 5.0.1 is out |