On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:36:27 +0200, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
<snip>
> OpenWrt is a member of the Gnu/Linux family of operating systems.
Linux simply. We are not using the GNU utilities in the base system.
> A relative newcomer in the
> area of embedded operating systems, it is gaining popularity as a
> development
> platform for OEMs and hackers alike. OpenWrt was initially developed in
> 2004 by Mike Baker and Gerry Rozema.
I was the third to join after mbm and groz, so I'm pretty sure that for
real it was started in the end of November, 2003. The first public
releases happened in 2004.
<snip>
> Supported chips:
So far so good. Probably it would worth to name the differences in the
ports, too. (eg. different ARM cores)
> \section{OpenWrt History}
> The project started in January 2004 as a result of discussion caused by
> information posted on a Linksys wrt54g hacking page on
> seattlewireless.net. The
> discussions grew to have their own channel #wrt54g. Shortly thereafter
> the
> project was moved to openwrt.org.
So November 2003, first public releases in January 2004 (well, for real
the first one happened in the end of December 2003). Dunno how mbm and
groz met, I've met them over freenoe on #wrt54g. The first website was
openwrt.ksilebo.net, and we've only moved to openwrt.org in June-July 2004.
> The first OpenWrt versions were based on Linksys GPL sources for
> WRT54G. They
> were just the standard Linksys firmware with a stripped down file system
> and
> some additional applications. In order to allow more flexibility the
> project
> the project started using a buildroot from the uclibc project. This new
> version
> was known as OpenWrt "stable release" and was widely in use. There are
> still
> many OpenWrt applications, like the Freifunk-Firmware or [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> which
> are
> based on this version.
Even the first versions were only using the kernel and drivers from
Linksys, the userland has been a stipped down, costum one all the time.
The move to uclibc happened around MArch 2004 or so with the help of mjn3
(uclibc developer).
> In the beginning of 2005 some new developers joined the team. After some
> months
> of closed development the team decided to publish the first
> "experimental"
> version of OpenWrt. The experimental versions used a heavily customized
> build
> system based on buildroot2 from the uclibc project.
>
> At this point OpenWrt began to use official Linux kernel sources and add
> patches for specific processors and network interfaces driver. The
> developer
> team reimplemented most of the functionality offered by different device
> vendors
> by studying the differences between the GPL code shipped by the vendors
> and stock kernels.
>
> There are free tools for writing new firmware images directly into the
> flash (mtd), for configuring the wireless lan chip (wlcompat/wificonf)
> and to program the VLAN-capable switch via the proc filesystem. The
> codename of the first OpenWrt release is "White Russian", a popular
> cocktail. Currently, the development of the White Russian line has ended
> with the release of OpenWrt 0.9.
>
> The development of the next release is taking place in our subversion
> repository. It will contain support for many more embedded boards. Its
> codename is Kamikaze.
Maybe it would worth to mention that all "codenames" are and will be
cocktail names.
> \begin{tabular}{ll}
> Timestamp&Version\\
> 2005.02.02&Before experimental\\
> 2005.06.25&White Russian RC1\\
> 2005.07.18&White Russian RC2\\
> 2005.09.14&White Russian RC3\\
> 2005.11.23&White Russian RC4\\
> 2006.03.27&White Russian RC5\\
> 2006.11.07&White Russian RC6\\
> 2007.01.30&White Russian 0.9\\
> 2007-06-01&Kamikaze 7.06\\
> 2007-07-23&Kamikaze 7.07\\
> \end{tabular}
Maybe I can find you the dates for the first public releases later today.
Just let me know if you need it.
Imre
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