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.
>
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