Just noticed the web page about it

http://www.linksys.com/en-us/wrt-wireless-router

Says: "open source ready"

Sounds to me like it'll be OpenWRT 'friendly', insofar as ease of flashing and not hating on people who try it out, rather than shipping with OpenWRT. Which (a) makes sense from a first iteration hardware PoV (b) would tally with what some of the devs have said on this list about not having heard a thing from them about it.

Pete.


On 16/01/14 07:16, James Hilliard wrote:
Maybe they took some of my suggestions when I sent GPL notices to them
http://sourceforge.net/projects/officiallinksysfirmware/files/ although
they still haven't complied with a number of the requests for certain
devices.


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Chirag Chhatriwala <cchha...@gmail.com>wrote:

Hi,

we talked about this internally and are not aware of any developer that
was pinged by linksys. what we know so far

* unit most likely runs on a ghz arm soc made by marvell
* unit is about 1,5x the size of the original
* the unit is really expensive - you can get a time capsule for that
price with a 2TB disc or even a low end qnap


lets see if they actually contact us or if it was a marketing hoax

         John


Not sure how I missed this thread. However, if they do end up working with
a few devs here on the OpenWrt team (fingers crossed), it would do wonders
for Belkin/Linksys brand as well as for the Marvell SoCs which have had
zero exposure to the open source community because of lack of drivers. I
never understood why Linksys (under Cisco) didn't capitalize on the
OpenSource Market after the huge success of the WRT54GL series. Linksys
(under Belkin) is appealing to its target end-users perfectly.

As an aside, this could potentially mean extended support for pre-existing
Linksys EAxxxx routers which are based off the Marvell SoC (maybe?).

Hope this isn't too good to be true.
Unless there are some NDAs involved, it would be great to hear some
updates on this subject.

Best Regards,
Chirag

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