[PATCH 0/3] ixp4xx: Restore support for the Netgear WG302 v1

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 5:08 PM Paul D <newtwen at gmail.com> wrote:

> You must have had fun doing this one! 8 mb is cruelly small.

As I have just the rootfs in the flash it's actually working pretty well
as long as I don't try anything fancy, It's the primary access point
in my home office right now because the radio is really strong on
this device.

> Does the device retry tftpboot?

Yes it's RedBoot, it tries to run the boot script, if that fails it reboots
and tries again.

> I'm thinking when an (slightly less) average user has kernel hosted
> on another openwrt device tftp, power comes on, main device boots,
> then the 302 eventually retries and can get its kernel via tftp.

Yeah I was thinking to set up my primary router to do the TFTP
actually, I will try this setup at some point.

> I guess this kind of thinking will be more relevant going forward,
> when today's devices can no longer fit a 'standard' 1GB kernel, and
> 'standard' flash space is like 1TB :D

Heh not quite there, but this worked fairly well.

Someone asked me at some point if this device had to be a
dead paperweight now, but actually it can be used. I'll update the
OpenWrt device page when 24 is out.

Yours,
Linus Walleij