OpenWRT turns 20; wants to launch their "first upstream supported" design

Re:OpenWRT turns 20; wants to launch their "first upstream s... by somerandomqaguy on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @03:01AM (#38937514)

Maybe but I think going with middling ARM chip is more the right call then trying to pursue a RISC-V based chip. The OpenWRT folks don't have the needed logistics chain to distribute this at all, and it sounds like they're leaning hard on both MediaTek and the Banana Pi team for this. I don't know of anyone else off the top of my head that would give a bunch of open source devs working on a niche distro that kind of support.

That said, the VisionFive 2 is available. There's some people on the Openwrt forums working on trying to get OpenWRT to work; might not be a bad idea to reach out to them and see how far they've gotten.

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Re:OpenWRT turns 20; wants to launch their "first upstream s... by snvzz on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:04AM (#38937962)

I have a VF2. It does have strong CPUs (relative to A53) and 2x GbE, solving half of the problem.

The other half (wireless) could be solved by using the PCIe lanes. To do it well at scale, we'd need a new board designed for the purpose.

The Pi4A guys meant to release such a router device, but seem to have elected to do other devices instead. Shrug.

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