On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 8:18 AM Allan W. Nielsen
[off-list ref] wrote:

I'm Allan, working for Microchip, who acquired Microsemi, who acquired Vitesse.

Thanks Allan, it's nice to have vendors involved :)

Alexandre pointed me to your comments on the VSC7384 switch done by Vitesse ~15
years ago. BTW: the chip is not being sold any more, and is unlikely to turn up
in new products.

Yeah, it's just us enthusiasts who maintain the old chips. It's nice, because
since they don't have very shiny new features, it is often a bliss to add
proper kernel support these days since the subsystems improved and
they become very good proofs of concept.

I managed to find the complete datasheet of this device, and convincing people
that it can be "opened-up" meaning that it is available without any NDA or
similar. It is a 1.2mb/200 page pdf, it is not avialable at any web page (that I
know of), but if you are interested in having it then I can send it in a mail to
you.

I'd be delighted to have a look! I hope my mailbox survives that, otherise
sharing it on Google drive works fine.

Yours,
Linus Walleij