OpenWrt One - celebrating 20 years of OpenWrt

[Ivan Ivanov]

This is an excellent idea by Dave Taht to use multiple ath9k chips.
Actually, I don't understand: how for a "modern, open, stable" WiFi
platform - someone could suggest a blobbed Mediatek or even worse,
Broadcom. an OpenWRT official device should be no worse than
LibreCMC-supported routers in regards to openness and freedom
(LibreCMC is a fork of OpenWRT for routers which could run on 100%
opensource without any binary blobs) . If you take some random
Mediatek with crappy binary blobs as the base, such a router won't be
any better than what you could get at store for a much cheaper price
:P

A higher price of OpenWRT router would be much more justified by "no
binary blobs" as the primary selling point. So the solution is either
to put multiple blobless ath9k chips or reverse-engineer & liberate
the firmware of some newer WiFi chip (or even create a new WiFi chip
by crowdfunding). There are no other sane options in sight

> Dave Taht wrote:
> I would actually, be happy cutting even more multiplexing latency out of the ath9k chips

Best regards,
Ivan

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 9:21 AM Bas Mevissen via openwrt-devel
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> From: Bas Mevissen <abuse at basmevissen.nl>
> To: Paul D <newtwen at gmail.com>
> Cc: John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>, "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5 at gmail.com>, OpenWrt Development List <openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org>, compliance at sfconservancy.org
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> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:19:30 +0100
> Subject: Re: OpenWrt One - celebrating 20 years of OpenWrt
> On 2024-02-27 10:16, Bas Mevissen wrote:
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> (former one escaped too quickly, please ignore)
>
> > On 2024-02-26 22:38, Paul D wrote:
> >> On 2024-02-26 19:39, John Crispin wrote:
> >>> Hi Rafał,
> >>>
> >>>> Is there any update / schedule you could share?
> >>> I have been meaning to send an update for a few days. Thanks for
> >>> reminding me.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm really looking forward to this device.
> >>> yeah, me too ;)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Lots of stuff has been happening. There was a short break due to the
> >>> lunar new year but we are picking up pace again.
> >>>
> >>> *) schematics are done
> >
> > Can it be shared already? I'm wondering whether some peripheral port
> > can easily be used to configure an external switch chip. I would like
> > not to have to use the mbus for that.
>
> >
> >>> *) PCB is mostly routed (https://nbd.name/one-top.jpg
> >>> https://nbd.name/one-bottom.png)
> >>
> >> If there is no price difference, can we have 90 degree angled pins for
> >> GND+TX+RX serial header, so the pins face away from the board as USB
> >> sockets do, and not stand up perpendicularly.
> >>
> >> This way serial consoles are workable even when device is in a case.
> >>
> >>
> >> Does anyone else have opinions on this?
> >>
> >
> > I think the console USB connector is intended for that.
> >
> >>>
> >>> *) there was a small hiccup in registering the OUI block that we are
> >>> currently resolving
> >>> *) the trademark agreement is being worked on - I have a call with
> >>> SFC tomorrow to discuss this
> >>>
> >>> I am expecting that the first 15 PCBA samples will be produced
> >>> shortly and be shipped by end of march.
> >>>
> >>> as for the software side, I modified a mt7981 RFB to have  dual
> >>> flash, mikrobus, .... s.T. I could build and test dts files. I
> >>> ordered the RTC used on a carrier board and was able to test it.
> >>>
> >>> all the u-boot patches are pretty much done. there is a pretty
> >>> elaborate uboot-env with lots of commands to provide easy
> >>> un-brickability.
> >>>
> >>> I have a local OpenWrt tree with ~10 patches that I hope to send as a
> >>> RFC later this week.
> >>>
> >>> the PCB will probably be light blue (PANTONE 306 C) which is the
> >>> light blue used inside the OpenWrt logo. we are still figuring this
> >>> out with the supplier.
> >>
> >>
> >> In 20 years when these devices are old and need recycling, how
> >> recyclable are the PCBs? What substances go into it? Toxic ones?
>
> The color pigment is probably not the biggest concern...
>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I should probably start building a page inside the wiki to provide
> >>> better visibility into what is happening.
> >>>
>
> Would be great. But this mail was already great to read about the
> progress!
>
> >>> shout out to pepe2k, SFC and MTK for the never ending support that
> >>> they provide on this journey.
> >>>
> >>> And an extra big thank you to Simon, the designer/engineer from BPi
> >>> that has been ultra cool in making this become a reality
> >>>
> >>>      John
> >>>
> Agree!
>
>
> Bas.
>
> >>>
> >>
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