Re: [RFC net-next 00/12] net: add the PON subsystem

[John Crispin]

On 09.10.26 13:04, Andre Ziviani wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 04:32:37PM +0200, John Crispin wrote:
>> The scope is XGS-PON. The mode enum keeps gpon and xg-pon so that the
>> uapi order stays clean for later drivers.
> 
> A G-PON data point, since the framework thread mentioned Realtek only
> as work with proprietary components. odi-oss [1] is open firmware for a
> GPON SFP ONU stick on the Realtek RTL9602C. It runs mainline 6.18 with
> GPL drivers of our own for the GPON MAC, the PLOAM state machine of
> G.984.3, the CPU NIC and the switch, and with a userspace OMCI daemon.
> Apart from the stock bootloader, the image has no vendor code or
> binaries. It runs in production on two ISPs, and a user has it working
> on a third.
> 
[...]
> traces from both ISPs.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/AndreZiviani/odi-oss
> 
> Thanks,
> Andre Ziviani
> 


and those dongle can be bought on fs.com for ~12euro

I'll grab a couple. Thanks for the info !