[PATCH 0/2] ath25: add 5.4 kernel support (not for merge)

Sergey Ryazanov ryazanov.s.a at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 06:47:15 EDT 2020


On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 12:54 PM Zoltan HERPAI <wigyori at uid0.hu> wrote:
>> On 09/04/2020 11:25, Adrian Schmutzler wrote:
>> Zoltan HERPAI <wigyori at uid0.hu> wrote:
>>> Sure, a bit late, but there is hardware out there which would benefit from
>>> recent OpenWrt (old ubnt gear, fonera, ... some of them 8/32).
>>> But in terms of resources, ath25 is more advanced than good-old bcm47xx
>>> and also played an important role in OpenWrt history.
>>
>> I'm not opposed to adding it back in general, but from a quick look it appears to me that devices are either at least 4/32 or broken?
>>
>> So, effectively we would add it just for custom builds and packages.
>>
> Indeed some of the devices are 4/32 or even 4/16 in ath25, but there are a number of 8/32 devices (like Fon2202, Meraki Mini, Ubiquiti PS5, and likely other custom boards). So above the nostalgic feeling, there is some technical reasoning to keep the target around, I'm in favour of that.

Looks like I was wrong in assuming there are no active users of these boards.

I will send another series that reverts target dropping and updates
the kernel to 5.4.

-- 
Sergey



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