[PATCH v2 0/7] 22.03 lantiq: add support for x490 Fritzboxes
Hauke Mehrtens
hauke at hauke-m.de
Mon Oct 24 15:24:49 PDT 2022
On 10/23/22 13:19, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here is my second attempt for initial FritzBox x490 support. 22.03 now
> has all the necessary prerequisites, so support can be added according
> to the rules.
>
> The original code snippets were submitted by John Crispin (IIRC),
> Andreas Böhler and Daniel Kestrel. I carved out the changes I
> considered necessary, integrated and tested them and cleaned them up
> (hopefully ;)
>
> These are the minimal changes required to run the FB {3,7}490 as DSL
> router (tested!). The 5490 is reported to be similar, so I included
> it, but could not test it due to lack of hardware.
>
> The wireless on these boxes is offloaded to a secondary SoC which
> needs to be provided its own OS. This feature is explicitly left out
> here in order to go step by step. I kept some loose ends where they
> don't hurt, for future reference.
>
> Changes from v1:
> ----------------
>
> * return to squashfs for the rootfs; ubifs causes too much complexity
> esp. for updates, when even the same model can be equipped with
> varying flash chip geometries. UBI partitioning and volumes are kept
> though.
Hi,
How is this related to the pull request adding support for these devices
on github?
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/5075
The pull request on github looks mostly ok to me, I just had some minor
questions.
Hauke
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