A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS

Re:A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS by rubatuga on Saturday December 15, 2018 @02:12PM (#18689823)

Espressobin is really bad, they didn't implement pcie drivers properly. I would stay away, and use an intel atom board from the 2010's.

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Re:A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS by subway on Saturday December 15, 2018 @02:50PM (#18690016)

Yeah -- that's probably a good point. Don't run the vendor kernel. That's honestly a good rule for most ARM boards -- you should avoid the vendor provided kernel tree.

To clean up the odd PCIe behavior on the Espressobin with mainline 4.17, there are 6 kernel patches required. Arch and OpenWRT both already ship them, and I'm in the process of getting them in to Buildroot. I'd expect they'll land in the mainline eventually.

https://github.com/jrb/buildroot/tree/espressobin/board/glob...

edit: sorry; 3 PCI patches. The other 3 mitigate other board/chip oddities.

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Re:A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS by freebsd4me on Sunday December 16, 2018 @02:56AM (#18692215)

You know that FreeBSD and pfsense run on espresso.bin, right?

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