[OpenWrt-Devel] Why ath79 has been made source-only on 19.07?

James Campbell jscampbell.05 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 30 15:40:00 EDT 2019


Can we not have a way of including unstable stuff in a way the consumers
know it’s un stable ?

Like a 19.07 canary

On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 20:22, Andreas Ziegler <ml at andreas-ziegler.de> wrote:

>
> Dmitry Tunin schrieb am 30.07.19 um 14:29:
> > Are you taking in account that many devices added during the last year
> > as ath79 won't be supported by a stable release.
> > Master is no good now for normal use. That will mean that for the next
> > year or so many users will require custom 19.07 builds.
> > That doesn't sound very good.
> >
> > Initially ath79 was expected in 19.07, but it appeared that not all
> > devices have been ported from ar71xx. So we are not ready to drop
> > ar71xx, but we are ready to support ath79.
>
> to me, this is the only big negative thing here.
> everyone was told, that new devices have to go into ath79 - and now we
> will have a new release, lacking binaries for many many new devices
> because new device support in ar71xx was not welcome.
>
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