Handling of devices both in ar71xx and ath79 in releases [Was: Re: Firmware Selector Setup]

[Moritz Warning]

On 9/13/20 1:02 PM, Daniel Golle wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 12:53:01PM +0200, Moritz Warning wrote:
>> On 9/13/20 11:30 AM, Petr Štetiar wrote:
>>> Moritz Warning <moritzwarning at web.de> [2020-08-01 02:13:05]:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> we have reached the point that we can finally set up the firmware selector
>>>
>>> while preparing the deployment, I've just noticed, that for the 19.07 releases
>>> the firmware selector is quite confusing for devices which are in ar71xx and
>>> ath79, like for example TP-LINK Archer C7 v5.
>>>
>>> It shows `TP-LINK Archer C7 v5` in the dropdown menu for ar71xx target and
>>> it shows `TP-Link Archer C7 v5` in the dropdown menu for ath79 target.
>>>
>>> Would it make sense to handle this corner case as well? For example having
>>> `TP-LINK Archer C7 v5 (ar71xx)` and `TP-Link Archer C7 v5 (ath79)` in the
>>> dropdown menu?
>> Yes. We should handle that corner case. I will fix it.
"TP-LINK" and "TP-Link" are different vendors to programs.
So this should be really have been fixed in OpenWrt. ;-)

>
> I guess the same applies for some of the RasbPi boards which can run
> either as 32-bit armv7 (bcm270x) or 64-bit aarch64 (bcm271x).
>
> In that case it's also even a bit more tricky as the best would be to
> add "(32-bit)" and "(64-bit)" to the device labels as the naming-scheme
> of bcm chips might not be known by all users...
>
I didn't know. Well, let's fix it in OpenWrt.