PowerSwitch S4100 (S4148-ON) chipset

Hello all,

I’ve been googling around trying to figure out which Broadcom silicon is in the S4148-ON.

I haven’t really been able to make much of a determination.

Does anyone know which chipset this is? Trident 1? Trident 2? Trident 3?

Thanks so much if anyone has already figured this out.

-Drew

https://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/Bufs/S4148.html

Seems to be BCM Maverick which is pretty close to a Trident2+ iirc…

With OS10 you should be able to see it with:

system “sudo hshell -c ‘show unit 0’”

i.e., from a S4128F-ON:
PLAT-SW-A-1# system “sudo hshell -c ‘show unit 0’”

Unit 0 chip BCM56762_B0 (current)
driver BCM56560_B0 (apache)

(should be Trident 2+)

-Stefano

Dell S4148 is based on Broadcom Maverick. S4048 is Trident2 (4048-T is Trident2+) and S5248 is Trident3.

What is the Broadcom Maverick chipset primarily used or designed for?
This seems like a not commonly used chip to me.

It’s a lower bandwidth Trident2+ with some different I/O options iirc. Same featureset, but a mix of 10G and 25G serdes, targeted at like 48x10g+4x100G boxes.

I think that Dell is one of the few vendors using it AFAIK?

My understanding same class as T2+, with lower cost, but there are some
limitations.

I thought this was a good explanation:
https://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/Bufs/maverick.html

That was my understanding of Maverick... For some reason there's
something in my head that said Extreme had one. Was it the X450-G2?

Also, worth keeping the Cumulus HCL handy for the older BRCM chipset
references. :slight_smile:

(Filter by ASIC, et voila.)