[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 9/9] ar71xx: add support for Comfast E214N V2 Outdoor CPE
Zoltan HERPAI
wigyori at uid0.hu
Mon Oct 23 23:49:40 PDT 2017
Hi,
Piotr Dymacz wrote:
> Hello Zoltan,
>
> On 22.10.2017 22:21, Zoltan HERPAI wrote:
>> Based on Robert Budde's patch, with additional reworks.
>> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/390
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zoltan HERPAI <wigyori at uid0.hu>
>> ---
>> [snip]
> We have some COMFAST devices already supported under ar71xx target in
> LEDE and as they are very similar, support for all of them (IIRC) is
> kept in single mach file [1]. This limits code duplication, e.g. for
> their external watchdog, network initialization, etc.
>
> Also, after a brief review, I found some issues here:
> - LED names don't follow general naming convention (color is missing)
> - support for reset button is missing
> - COMFAST keeps ART copy in last 64 KB mtd partition, thus we have a
> "art-backup" partition defined [2], not "nvram" as in the patch
>
> Personally, I would prefer to include support for this model in the
> same way as we did for rest from this vendor. How would you like to
> proceed with this one then?
>
For the record, we've started to work on this offline with Bill and
Piotr to add support into the common mach file.
Regards,
-w-
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