OpenWrt vs Defense positions

[Enrico Mioso]

On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 09:34:01AM -0400, Peter Naulls wrote:
> On 5/2/23 09:31, Enrico Mioso wrote:
> > On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 09:24:52AM -0400, Peter Naulls wrote:
> > > On 5/2/23 07:26, Enrico Mioso wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > > Another impression I have, is that the OpenWrt project is very important for many yet under-resourced.
> > > > There are some important tasks that would help with the long-term maintenance (e.g. merging of the mtk_nand for mt7621 and the upstrema one, if at all possible), which require time and highly motivated person to carry on.
> > > 
> > > I was that person, but at this point, the upstream m7621 NAND driver works
> > > correctly, *except* when the MMC is also enabled. The mtk_nand driver is
> > > very old and I did get it to run correctly for reads under current kernel,
> > > but it
> > > didn't seem to have any further value here, and many obvious faults - see my
> > > discussion on this a few months back.  If there's specific work you know of
> > > here, I'd be very interested.
> > 
> > Thanks for your reply.
> > 
> > No, I don't know wether work is ongoing on that at the moment, sorry.
> 
> Yes, but there must have been some issue that caused this comment - is there
> some backstory here?

Oh no, I was just thinking about this in "long-term maintenance" terms.
> 
> 
Enrico