On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 00:56 +0300, Vladimir wrote: > Dear Bob, thank you very much for such a brief, detailed and helpful > reply! > It has cleared most of my questions, but there are a few more: > > 1) Although I fully agree & support the five from six conditions list > (especially those which are about proven absence of closed source > blobs) there are some doubts about this one: > > > > * The target must be flashable from stock firmware without any > > elaborate hacks. > > > In my humble opinion, if a device successfully meets five other > conditions, then it doesnt matter if a user should do some tricks to > install LibreCMC - as long as those tricks are well researched and > documented. Also, even if its impossible to flash a target straight > from a stock firmware - if this device meets all other five > conditions, there is no much problem: many boards could be flashed > directly by dirt cheap $1.5 USB to TTL adapters (shipping from China > included) >
OK, so there could be an exception for this condition, but it would need to be clearly noted. > 2) Recently I learned about LibreCMC project, would like to buy a new > router and get involved! But here is a problem: the only relatively > modern router that is listed right now on "Supported Hardware" page > and has 2.4GHz + 5 GHz support, is a Netgear WNDR3800 - which is > overpriced and almost sold out everywhere. So I researched about all > the routers listed in config file, and it looks like in this list > there only two routers which satisfy to "affordable price"+"at least > some availability"+"2.4/5 GHz" requirements : > > TP Link TL-WDR4300 > TP Link TL-WR2543 > I have the TL-WDR4300, but I'm still doing some testing. It works really well (v1.7) and can be flashed from the stock firmware. I have not looked at / flashed u-boot yet and I still have concerns about the switch in this and the TL-WR1043ND (those concerns being that it has a managed switched and what I believe to be a different flash chip for it, I might be wrong). I also need to test the USB ports in the TL -WDR4300 because a similar router I tested had issues with USB being unstable under high loads (when transferring a lot of data). > Please tell, if any of those routers is already supported by LibreCMC > (but it could be hard to install and thats why not listed officially) > ? Or are there any potential supported 2.4GHz/5GHz LibreCMC > candidates > which haven't been added yet ? > I hope this helps. If you need more help, it might be better to start another thread or chat on #libreCMC. Due to my lack of time (currently), I have not added new documentation for this and other new platforms. -- Robert Call (Bob) b...@librecmc.org https://librecmc.org _______________________________________________ Librecmc-dev mailing list Librecmc-dev@lists.librecmc.org https://librecmc.org/mailman/listinfo/librecmc-dev
