Sorry for the accidental sidetrack to private mail. Returning the thread to the mailing list.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 5:16 AM Adrian Schmutzler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > What happens if you flash the "wrong" image? Do you see any chance to > have one of the images as "default" without suffix or would this make > things worse? > > > > Currently only the ar7241 is supported in ath79. If you flash an ar7241 > image on an ar7240 device, the wireless works but the ethernet does not. I > have not tried the other way around, but I'd expect the same thing. I > > don't actually have ready access to an ar7241-based ubnt-bullet-m to try an > ar7240 image on to confirm that expectation. > > I have a Picostation M2HP (XM) where I could technically try an ar7240 > bullet-m image. However, I do not think we will learn much from that, as > essentially the difference between ar7240.dtsi and ar7241.dtsi are a few > compatibles and that mdio1 is used instead of mdio0, so I'd expect similar > results to what you described for the opposite case. > My main reason for the question was damage assessment, but with Wifi > disabled by default and Ethernet broken one would still need TFTP for > recovery as this sounds to me. > > I also briefly considered providing a mixed ar7240/ar7241 support as for > ar71xx, but I quickly quit on that as it's hard to achieve and terribly > ugly. > > So, I still do not have a better idea than the different names/variants at > the moment. > Yeah. I am not seeing a particularly better path either, although I dislike the duplication of the dtsi's. > > Best > > Adrian > >
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