[OpenWrt-Devel] ar71xx with kernel 4.14 - a few test results

Dmitry Tunin hanipouspilot at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 10:15:23 EDT 2018


> There are other shortcomings along with upgraded kernel e.g. the
> kernel is getting so big that we may not be able to use 4M flash with
> even just basic functions of a router in a near future.
> (I remember that someone successfully fit USB support and Samba into
> 4M flash using OpenWrt Backfire 10.04 and back to those days there are
> some routers running Linux with only 16M ram.)

I think the kernel became so big because of the extra code related to
building both OF and legacy code in many palaces.
It should shrink a bit in a while.

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