Piotr Dymacz <[email protected]> 于2018年12月6日周四 上午3:54写道： > > Hi Mathias, > > On 05.12.2018 09:56, Mathias Kresin wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I would like to start to reject patches for adding boards with only 32 > > MByte of RAM and 4 MByte of flash [0]. These boards barely work with > > todays OpenWrt default builds and require quite some modifications to be > > useful at all [1]. > > In general I agree but I still consider OpenWrt more like a platform > than a ready Linux distribution. For me this means that even if snapshot > or release images are missing for some devices because of their limited > resources, thanks to keeping basic support for them in code base, users > are still able to make use of them. There are already devices in repo > which didn't get official image for 18.06 release but now have snapshot > images and can be even more useful with a custom/self made image. > > > IMHO it doesn't make much sense to waste resources (reviewer time, build > > resources) for boards which will most likely never see an official build > > and/or are more or less unusable with the official build. > > In case of DTS based targets (where single device support in code > doesn't have that big impact like in, for example, ar71xx) and good > quality patch/PR I don't see a reason to not merge the support. And in > case the official snapshot/release build can't fit in available flash > space and we are really worried about build resources, we can just > disable image generation for the device. This way, users and downstream > projects would be still able to make use of OpenWrt on resource-limited > devices without the need to maintain custom device support patches. > > > I prefer to have a joint statement which I can link to, to prevent > > endless discussions or accusations of acting purely arbitrary. > > Instead of making this a strict rule now I would prefer to leave final > decision to the developer who takes care of patch/PR _and_ establish a > clear dead line for this to become a strict rule. Lets say: after 19.06 > release we no longer accept support patches for devices with only 4 MB > of flash or 32 MB of RAM.
I'm a user from the Third World. Since devices with 64MB of RAM or more are a little expensive for us. I bought many devices with 1MB flash and 8MB ram, mainly ar9331 qca9533. Then update the RAM to 64MB, and solder a simple sop8 socket to it, and use 4MB 8MB 16MB of flash for it. All works well. > > > I'm not sure whether the topic qualifies for a formal voting, hence the RFC. > > Thanks for bringing up this topic. > > -- > Cheers, > Piotr > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
