[PATCH v1 0/5] Resurrect IXP4xx

[Raylynn Knight]

> On Jun 19, 2023, at 7:31 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> IXP4xx was deleted because of lack of maintenance in 2020.
> 
> In the years since, the upstream Linux support for IXP4xx has
> been rewritten from scratch. It is not pretty well supported
> using device tree and such.
> 
> With the switch to kernel v6.1, OpenWrt has the required
> baseline to bring IXP4xx back.
> 
> I have heard that the v6.1 target can still not be used by
> default, but let's start reviewing, so we can merge this
> as soon as v6.1 builds are ripe!
> 
> This is a reimplementation of the IXP4xx support which is
> using all the contemporary abstractions, the only thing
> actually resurrected is the APEX boot loader. The port is
> thus "slim" and not patching a lot on the mainline kernel
> as pretty much everything is upstream.
> 
> As a starter, we bring back two Gateworks reference designs,
> one for IXP42x and one for IXP43x, and the classic NSLU2
> NAS.
> 
> Here you find binaries and illustrations if you want to check
> out how the support works right now, if you have an NSLU2
> you can flash the binary and rootfs and it "just works",
> though NSLU2 is not a default build:
> https://dflund.se/~triad/krad/ixp4xx/
> 
> Thanks to Imre Kaloz add Krzysztof Halasa for all cheering
> and reference designs :)
> 
> I am pretty back any IXP4xx can be brought online with this,
> they just need some time and focus. I will add more routers
> as time permits.
> 
> Linus Walleij (5):

I see that the ADI Coyote was included, but not the ADI Pronghorn which actually has sufficient RAM (64MB) and flash (16MB) to run OpenWrt.  I’ll be looking at using the ADI Coyote as a base to eventually create a pull request to get the ADI Pronghorn supported! I can also test the D-Link DSM-G600 and Gateworks GW2348 support.

Thanks for starting this effort.

Ray



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