On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 08:43:02AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > XP4xx was deleted because of lack of maintenance in 2020. > > In the years since, the upstream Linux support for IXP4xx has > been rewritten from scratch. It is now pretty well supported > using device tree and modern subsystems that didn't exist > 20 years ago when the first IXP4xx port was done. > > With the switch to kernel v6.1, OpenWrt has the required > baseline to bring IXP4xx back. > > With the (suspiciously similarly named!) IPQ4xxx now supporting > v6.1 exclusively, the door should be open for IXP4xx! > > This is a reimplementation of the IXP4xx support which is > using all the contemporary abstractions, the only thing > actually resurrected is the APEX boot loader. The port is > thus "slim" and not patching a lot on the mainline kernel > as pretty much everything is upstream. > > As a starter, we bring back two Gateworks reference designs, > one for IXP42x and one for IXP43x, and the classic NSLU2 > NAS. We also bring back USRobotics USR8200 because it has > active users and testers. > > Here you find binaries and illustrations if you want to check > out how the support works right now, if you have an NSLU2 > you can flash the binary and rootfs and it "just works", > though NSLU2 is not a default build: > https://dflund.se/~triad/krad/ixp4xx/ > > Thanks to Imre Kaloz add Krzysztof Halasa for all cheering > and reference designs :) > > Thanks to Howard Harte and Joseph for stepping in and helping > out with device support and debugging. > > Thanks for Hauke for the the in-depth review of the v1 > patch set. Thanks to Christian Marangi, Robert Marko and > Jonas Gorski for reviewing the v2 patch set. > > I am pretty confident that we can bring back any IXP4xx with > this, they just need some time and focus. I will add more > routers as time permits. > > I don't know who can import this from patches or pull request: > it may be best if I just apply for commit access to the > OpenWrt git repository and import it myself perhaps? > > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org>
Hi, I merged this series on main. I hope to have followup for the firmware (hoping it will ever be accepted upstream) and for the hotplug script for the disk? That I think was dropped from the series? -- Ansuel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel