[corndoge]

switchdev is currently dormant. None of the silicon vendors seem to be willing to put the work in, so there's no adoption from the SDN/NOS space. We are still stuck with HALs.

Also, there are multiple solutions to run Linux on switches, most notably Cumulus Linux and VyOS

[wmf]

switchdev doesn't look too dormant: https://github.com/mellanox/mlxsw/wiki