ath79: move 8/32 boards to tiny subtarget

[David Bauer]

Hi,

On 9/16/20 11:40 AM, Adrian Schmutzler wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openwrt-devel [mailto:openwrt-devel-bounces at lists.openwrt.org]
>> On Behalf Of Sven Roederer
>> Sent: Mittwoch, 16. September 2020 09:17
>> To: openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
>> Subject: ath79: move 8/32 boards to tiny subtarget
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> not sure if this has been discussed before.
>> I recently worked with some 8/32 boards (Ubiquiti Nanostation M (XM),
>> TPLink
>> WR842 v2)  for our Freifunk-project and realized that the low RAM situation
>> requires quite different handling than the full boards (8+/64+).
>>
>> I wonder if there is a reason to not move the boards, which are affected by
>> the 4/32MB warning also, to the ath79-tiny target?
> 
> I wonder whether the tiny subtarget will actually make much difference for RAM issues?

In it's current state, it will most likely increase low-memory issues as the squashfs
blocksize is 1024kB compared to the regular 256kB. Not that ath79-tiny has no target-flag
for small memory set.

Best wishes
David

> 
> Best
> 
> Adrian
> 
>>
>> Sven
>>
>>
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