On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Mark Mentovai <[email protected]> wrote: > Petri Rosenström wrote: >> I think it is useful because it adds the specific board information >> about WNDR3800 (e.g. the name WNDR3800 on status page or /proc/cpuinfo >> show correct board name). I think that this information is important >> and it should be available. > > Since you can flash a WNDR3700v2 with a WNDR3800 image and vice-versa, > and the name is simply baked into the image you chose to flash with no > other differences between the two, it seems pointless.
You can do it through the upgrade mode, but not through the webinterface. I do think that it is useful information for users to know what device they are running. > >> btw. Do you (Mark) own the both devices? Have you (Mark) checked that >> they are the same (only RAM diff)? I have *only* seen claims on some >> forums and I only own a wndr3800 so I can't say for sure. It seems >> like they are. But it would be nice to know for sure. > > If it's terribly important, you can detect the difference between 3700v2 > and 3800 at runtime. The data's in the art/caldata area. The WNDR3800 > U-Boot source has the details. Nice one. Didn't know about this. Thanks for the information. btw. Any ideas how to get this to cpuinfo at boot time? -- Petri _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
