On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 03:59:50AM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:46:47PM +0200, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: > > Hi, > > Ho,
Hi, > > > I decided to rearrange my master plan for FreeWRT development. I > > will focus on FreeWRT 1.1 in the next months. Brcm-2.6 support will > > be removed very soon. The reason for that is very simple. > > Please do not remove brcm-2.6, I promised Michael to push this target in > return for his donation of my first WGT634U (RIP). If it's running fine, > I would rather drop 2.4 support on Netgear. I follow Phil's opion: don't drop brcm-2.6, if you want something to drop, better take WGT634U-2.4/2.6. I know the hardware plattform is currently hard to support with that closed source stuff, but this are the majority of routers currently available. From a technical point of view, we are waiting since months for a working brcm-2.6 plattform: better wireless support (in theory, since 2.6.22 with OS-drivers), current kernel development with many needed features (better IPSec, better routing, netem support, active MIPS/ARM community, gcc4 support, ...). > > > I will not invest more time into crappy hardware from big companys, > > who does not play nice with the community. There are a lot of open > > hardware projects available and we should support them, if we can. > > How many (affordable) devices of this kind do you know of? Anyway, none > of them is as popular as the fscking Linksys WRT series. So if we drop > all support for crappy hardware, sooner or later we won't support > anything at all. (Please consider that my PC died two weeks ago. ;) Phil is right here. I would like to see even more support for other hardware like the FRITZ!Box series (great VoIP plattform). Waldemar, I hopefully understand your point. But we should solve this problem in another way. Perhaps we should make it easier for people to get in contact with FreeWRT by supporting: * prebuild, complete images (well defined feature set needed by most of the folks) * installation documentation * a web interface (oh yes, everyone wants it, only developers hates it) Cheers, Dirk _______________________________________________ freewrt-developers mailing list [email protected] https://www.freewrt.org/lists/listinfo/freewrt-developers
