[LEDE-DEV] looking for ar7 testers

[John Crispin]

On 16/06/2016 06:54, David Lang wrote:
> Ok, so it sounds like this particular hardware is not wanted and support
> may be dropped.

that is what i am trying to figure out

> 
> 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?

talk to your local developer and support him as per need i guess.

personally i am right now looking for donations of ipq hardware that is
not locked down.



> 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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