*DD-WRT (it's late)

On 6 April 2013 01:23, thelionroars <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's surprising. I thought the reason routers weren't listed on OpenWRT
> as working was typically lack of driver support.
>
> - Edward
>
>
> On 5 April 2013 23:58, Jeremy Visser <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 5/04/2013 18:49, Andrew Worsley wrote:
>> > Just got what looks to be a pretty good deal on what appears to have
>> > GPL version of the code made available.
>>
>> You may be surprised, but this is actually *very* common.
>>
>> The majority of consumer routers out there run a homebrew Linux of some
>> form, and have their open source components available upon request.
>>
>> Unfortunately only a small minority of consumer routers are supported by
>> distros such as OpenWrt, despite having the manufacturer's source code
>> available.
>>
>> This is mainly a limitation of time and popularity, rather than it being
>> a difficult technical challenge. Most consumer routers use a very
>> standard architecture. All that's needed is to figure out how the
>> bootloader works, where to store the data, and everything else is
>> standard to the architecture, and already supported by Linux.
>>
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