*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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> luv-main mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main >> > >
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