Tony Garnock-Jones wrote on 05/03/2015 12:55 PM:
On 2015-05-02 2:29 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
What's the current viability of running Racket on a small OpenWRT
device? (Anything new, such as due to the recent modularization of the
core?)
Nothing that I know of since 2011ish. The smaller core might make it a
little easier to assemble a minimal set of collections.
OK, thanks, Tony. I'll have to give this a try in a week or two.
(Last time I ran Racket on OpenWRT, I was using a Netgear WNDR3700v2.)
I have a collection of these and similar WNDRs (my home office network
is run by two 3700v2 and a 3800, running OpenWRT). For Racket, I'll
probably try a 3700v4 or 4300v1 first, since they're 128 RAM and 128
NAND flash, albeit with a different SoC with lower CPU clock rate. I
don't want to rely on USB Storage for this project.
(Aside: A challenge for an open source project that you want large
numbers of people to be able to adopt grassroots-style is to find router
model(s) with sufficient specs, and that run OpenWRT well, and yet are
still easily available for purchase online and at big-box retailers.
Additionally, vendors like Netgear and Linksys often replace the product
guts of a model with very different hardware, without changing the model
number; so, someone ordering a "WNDR3700" online could be getting any of
4+ different devices, with widely varying specs, and some of which don't
run OpenWRT. Some open source projects can also work on Raspberry Pi
devices, but sometimes you need the NICs/radios/switch hardware of a
cheap router anyway, so you might as well do everything in one appliance
box. A soho router is more polished and less expensive than a RasPi
with a bunch of daughterboards and USB hubs and devices hanging off of
it precariously.)
Neil V.
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