[LEDE-DEV] looking for ar7 testers

[John Crispin]

On 20/06/2016 02:51, David Lang wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2016, Daniel Curran-Dickinson wrote:
> 
>> 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)?
>>
>> TBH I'm not sure how useful random hardware donations are.  For example
>> getting a router which is more than just updating image generation
>> specifics (and assuming there is even enough information available via
>> flash browsing etc to do that, which isn't always the case), there is
>> the problem most chips manufacturers don't talk to random developer X,
>> and only want to give data sheets and programming information to people
>> who sign an NDA and have a support contract, presumably with contracts
>> to by X units from ODM who is actually the one making the information
>> available, or enabling the request).
>>
>> Dealing with unsupported hardware is not something developers can often
>> do something about simply by having random device X.  If it's just image
>> generation usually it can be figured out, but beyond that it normally
>> requires some level of information that isn't easy to discover simply by
>> having a device.
> 
> Well, I'll point out that the thread I'm replying to started off with "I
> no longer have the hardware to test this"
> 
> I agree that random, unsolicited donations are likely to be less useful,
> but donations of hardware to solve the "I can't test this" or add to a
> test farm are directly useful.
> 
> And getting a new piece of equipment can get a developer interested
> enough to go after the NDAs needed to make it work well.
> 
> In some cases the vendors involved are known to 'not play well with
> others' and so donations of their hardware will do no good.
> 
> But those of us out in the wild can't tell the difference between the
> different categories.
> 
> That's why I asked for a list of what would be useful to donate :-)
> 
> David Lang

how is this related to "i am looking for ar7 maintainers and testers" ?
please try to stay on topic