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Re:$55 board turns a Raspberry Pi CM4 into a router by grawp on Friday August 05, 2022 @05:43AM (#32353773)
Because there are not thousands of existing routers supporting openwrt. OpenWRT needs at least 64MB RAM now and most consumer oriented crap which has that amount of RAM is expensive and under same model number you always have revisions galore most of them unsupported and some even of completely different architecture than other revisions.

Many times there is less than 50% chance that you buy a supported revision unless you go with things like Turris Omnia or Raspberry Pi..

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Re:$55 board turns a Raspberry Pi CM4 into a router by solarkraft on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:52PM (#32361129)
Flashing it is also not trivial.

... but I do still think it's a good option compared to the WTF-that's-a-lot-for-a-router price of the CM4 one, especially with the current prices.

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