[LEDE-DEV] looking for ar7 testers

[David Lang]

Ok, so it sounds like this particular hardware is not wanted and support may be 
dropped.

But for the general case, my question still stands. What hardware (including 
brand-new devices, wishlists for future devices, etc) is wanted, how can it be 
donated?

David Lang

On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> Ethernet support on ar7 had to be shoehorn-hacked in for each device
> individually. What would fix it on one would break it on another. I had
> been in process of trying to come up with a unifying Ethernet hack a few
> years ago, but I became discouraged by the incomplete GPL tarballs, the
> lack of a wireless driver for the 1350A chipset, the kludgey state of
> ATM support, and the shortage of RAM on pretty much every supported
> device.
>
> On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 19:52 -0700, David Lang wrote:
>> Is there a list of hardware that is needed? (or do you want donations of money
>> for the project to buy hardware)?
>>
>> David Lang
>>
>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, John Crispin wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:29:31 +0200
>>> From: John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>
>>> To: LEDE Development List <lede-dev at lists.infradead.org>
>>> Subject: [LEDE-DEV] looking for ar7 testers
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the ar7 boots with v4.4 but ethernet apparently passes no traffic and
>>> atm is untested.
>>>
>>> we need someone to pick up the maintainer ship and fix this issue. i
>>> have no longer got any hw that can be used for testing. we need this
>>> fixed for it to be part of the release.
>>>
>>> 	John
>>>
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