That's surprising. I thought the reason routers weren't listed on OpenWRT as working was typically lack of driver support.
- Edward On 5 April 2013 23:58, Jeremy Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/04/2013 18:49, Andrew Worsley wrote: > > Just got what looks to be a pretty good deal on what appears to have > > GPL version of the code made available. > > You may be surprised, but this is actually *very* common. > > The majority of consumer routers out there run a homebrew Linux of some > form, and have their open source components available upon request. > > Unfortunately only a small minority of consumer routers are supported by > distros such as OpenWrt, despite having the manufacturer's source code > available. > > This is mainly a limitation of time and popularity, rather than it being > a difficult technical challenge. Most consumer routers use a very > standard architecture. All that's needed is to figure out how the > bootloader works, where to store the data, and everything else is > standard to the architecture, and already supported by Linux. > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main >
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