[OpenWrt-Devel] ar71xx Vs ath79 -- sysupgrade

Thomas Endt tmo26 at gmx.de
Thu Dec 6 15:18:48 EST 2018


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <henrique at nic.br>
> Em 05/12/2018 21:20, Thomas Endt escreveu:
> >> Auftrag von Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Do we have a wiki table
> >> somewhere that has the device name, ar71xx info and ath79 info, which
> >> could be expanded with ar71xx->ath79 status (no, yes but unverified,
> >> yes verified to be complete)?
> >>
> >> That would be really useful to direct efforts on adding ath79 support
> >> to something that is still ar71xx-only, as well as adding
> >> ar71xx->ath79 support to targets of interest (i.e. those one happens
> >> to know what changes are required for the migration, really).
> >>
> >> I suppose one would also add any remarks about ath79 support being
> >> incomplete or any regressions for each target one knows about, too.
> >> That would help steering the ar71xx deprecation.
> >
> > There is a table that documents the ath79 status in the OpenWrt forum:
> > https://forum.openwrt.org/t/ath79-target-status/18614/9
> >
> > The place to put this into the wiki would be:
> > https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/targets/ath79
> >
> >
> > We can define a new target "ar71xx-ath79" for the dataentries, which
> would then give us these 3 options:
> >
> > 1) "ar71xx"          # device is ar71xx only
> > 2) "ath79"           # device is ath79 only
> > 3) "ar71xx-ath79"    # device is migrated (and working, if nothing in
> "Unsupported Functions")
> >
> > ---> devices will automatically show up on the ath79 and/or ar71xx wikipage
> (slight modifications necessary).
> >
> > For "ath79 WIP" devices, we can set the "Unsupported Functions" datafield
> (that's where WIP usually is found) to "ath79 WIP, see forum".
> > Any detailed discussion or description of incomplete support should
> happen elsewhere, i.e. either in the forum or on the respective devicepages.
> >
> > Please let me know if this meets your requirements.
> 
> Yes, this would do it nicely, provided that we take care to describe in the web
> pages what ar71xx-ath79 means.
> 
> Note that my answer assumes "migrated" (i.e. ar71xx-ath79) means the glue
> to migrate and convert low-level config (LEDs, etc) when updating from
> ar71xx -> ath79 is in place on the ath79 port.
> 
> If it just does ar71xx _and_ ath79, BUT one has to manually adjust
> configuration when migrating from ar71xx to ath79, it would have to be
> flagged as WIP or something like that, even if all of its functions are fully
> implemented and working in ath79.

I tried to include your comments while creating these two pages:
https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/targets/ar71xx-ath79
https://openwrt.org/unsupported/ath79_wip

Please crosscheck.

> > There is a table that documents the ath79 status in the OpenWrt forum:
> > https://forum.openwrt.org/t/ath79-target-status/18614/9

Can I set all devices listed as "working" to "ar71xx-ath79 + no ath79 WIP"?


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