They tend to leave some proprietary bits out of the gpl releases. The least
I can do is ask around and see when the bsp was last updated and if so what
changes they made. I remember reading a guy got dd-wrt to boot on rtl8196,
perhaps that thread may help you in some way.

I can also donate hardware to other serious devs that want to help andrew in
supporting rtl8196.

Jason

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:43:33 +0800, jason duhamell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hey Andrew, If you need hardware samples, let me know and I will support
> > you on the rtl8196. I can also get you the rtl8196 factory sdk if you
> > need it.
> >
> > Best Regards, Jason
>
> While now I think the hardware I have will do fine. And the bsp I have
> from
> the trendnet router has the 2.6.30.9 kernel, which, from what I got from a
>
> guy working on wive-ng firmware, (sfstduio.livejornal.com) is the latest
> one
> avaliable for this stuff.
> I guess, I'll need a different board or two when I come close to
> developing board support.
> Current symlink/bsp approach they have in the bsp sucks hard.
> But at the current state, I just want to make sure that OpenWRT actually
> boots
> for the first time on this hardware, before taking on any more boards.
> I'll post more results to the maillist as soon as possible.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
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