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Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community

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Re: Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community

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Post by tubelite »

embeem wrote: post #9
ge0rg wrote: post #4

It is a real pity that the lack of developers is compensated by splitting developer focus on two different forks. If the reasons stated are true, let's hope it works out and strengthens embedded Linux, maybe even leading to a reunion like egcs/gcc.

This announcement comes as a surprise to all the other developers, myself included. - mbm (openwrt founder)

Thanks for openwrt. One of the nicest Linux distros I've used. Love ubus and procd and all the shell interfaces.

I was literally just now using the image builder to create a custom image and ran into this news.

Re: Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community

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Post by randomchars »

the-dude wrote: post #55
Hydraulix989 wrote: post #45

I really don't understand why there needs to be a newly forked router firmware project every few years. Back in my day, we used DD-WRT, and it worked.

They went over to the dark side.

How so?

Re: Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community

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Post by rjsw »

mschuster91 wrote: post #54
scottlamb wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly, no, the Raspberry Pi 3 still seems to do everything over the USB bus. It'd make an awful router. See https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-3-specs-bench... : > The Raspberry Pi 3 shares the same SMSC LAN9514 chip as its predecessor, the Raspberry Pi 2, adding 10/100 Ethernet connectivity and four USB channels to the board. As before, the SMSC chip connects to the SoC via a single USB channel, acting a…

> Sadly, no, the Raspberry Pi 3 still seems to do everything over the USB bus. It'd make an awful router Not exactly, the BT/WiFi chip is apparently running via SDIO. But yes, that doesn't help with the Ethernet situation. I don't get why Broadcom, when they already do a custom SoC, didn't include one or two MII lines and use a real Ethernet PHY instead.

They wouldn't even need to buy in IP for the Ethernet MAC, they already have their own.

Re: Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community

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Post by gear54rus »

the-dude wrote: post #67
randomchars wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How so?

Tried to go commercial, relicensing a community effort. Not sure if this is what sparked OpenWRT into existence.

Is this it? http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/columns/article.php/3816236/The-D...

Re: Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community

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Post by the-dude »

gear54rus wrote: post #68
the-dude wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tried to go commercial, relicensing a community effort. Not sure if this is what sparked OpenWRT into existence.

Is this it? http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/columns/article.php/3816236/The-D...

yes.

Re: Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community

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Post by antxxxx »

wtallis wrote: post #59
duaneb wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about {net|free|open}BSD?

Their hardware support is not as good as Linux, especially for WiFi and for embedded SoCs. Their network stacks are lacking in more advanced features like QoS that's not from the '90s (AQM, FQ, traffic shaping that accounts for the overhead your DSL or cable modem adds) and I'm not aware of any efforts to eliminate bufferbloat from NIC drivers the way BQL has for most Linux Ethernet drivers. I'm not sure how Linux co…

FreeBSD has QoS available via PF and ALTQ. As for performance, Netflix chose FreeBSD for their CDN for the better network performance over linux. I do take your point about hardware support on consumer routers though - most of these are based on linux so its relatively easy to get linux based *wrt installed on them
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