Hi, On 06-12-20, Sven Roederer wrote: > Currently 8MB flash / 32MB RAM devices are fully supported in OpenWrt, as they > work quite well for basic usage (including full LuCI). > On some projects with advanced features (e.g. Freifunk) the lack of RAM turns > them into unstable devices. Mostly caused by several OOM problems per day. > This series tries to prolong the usage of these boards by moving them to the > ath79-tiny target. Indeed it makes these boards available on ath79-tiny in > addition to the current ath79-generic variant.
Can't you just move the boards instead of duplicating them? > To improve the low RAM situation the default kernel-config for the tiny sub- > target will also disable some uncommon features. So the kernel image becomes > smaller, which results in lower flash- and RAM-footprint. Some of the patches below have broken SoB. > [RFC PATCH 1/5] ath79: put some 8/32MB devices to tiny subtarget > [RFC PATCH 2/5] kernel: deactivate usb on ath79-tiny > [RFC PATCH 3/5] ath79: deactivate PARTITION_ADVANCED > [RFC PATCH 4/5] kernel: ath79-tiny deactivate usually not needed features Can you provide an overview of kernel memory consumption before and after? /proc/vmstat just after boot would give an idea. > [RFC PATCH 5/5] kernel: ath79-tiny: enable CONFIG_BLOCK What does this do? Thanks, Baptiste
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