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Re:Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt co... by scottlamb on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @08:18PM (#11625293)
Sadly, no, the Raspberry Pi 3 still seems to do everything over the USB bus. It'd make an awful router. See https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-3-specs-bench...:

> The Raspberry Pi 3 shares the same SMSC LAN9514 chip as its predecessor, the Raspberry Pi 2, adding 10/100 Ethernet connectivity and four USB channels to the board. As before, the SMSC chip connects to the SoC via a single USB channel, acting as a USB-to-Ethernet adaptor and USB hub.

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Re:Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt co... by mschuster91 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @03:44AM (#11626837)
> Sadly, no, the Raspberry Pi 3 still seems to do everything over the USB bus. It'd make an awful router

Not exactly, the BT/WiFi chip is apparently running via SDIO.

But yes, that doesn't help with the Ethernet situation. I don't get why Broadcom, when they already do a custom SoC, didn't include one or two MII lines and use a real Ethernet PHY instead.

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Re:Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt co... by rjsw on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @06:18AM (#11627335)
They wouldn't even need to buy in IP for the Ethernet MAC, they already have their own.
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