2014-04-03 6:58 GMT+02:00, Constantine A. Murenin <muren...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > It has come to my attention that the recently discontinued WD My Net > line of dual-band routers is just about the best bang for the buck -- > they're currently selling N900 (w/ 8x GigE and 256MB of RAM) for 49,99 > USD at Staples, or 39,99 USD if you order it in person from the store > with the 20% in-store coupon, off from the original price of 149,99 > USD. This firesale appears to come and go since late 2013, even > before the whole line was discontinued in early 2014 (for example, > Staples still appears to have some N750 left, but it's not on sale > this week, unlike N900). > > http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/wd/n900 > http://www.staples.com/WD-My-Net-N900-HD-Dual-Band-Router/product_937135 > > However, N900 it's not supported by OpenWRT -- the whole Ubicom IP8K > platform is not supported. > > Is there a reason for that? > > What would it take to add the support? > > WD My Net N900 looks like just about the best piece of hardware over > at http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start list, this repeated firesale > price of 39,99 USD is just insane and is easily 3x less than the > competition -- might be a good motivator for adding support to > OpenWRT. > > Cheers, > Constantine. > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > AFAIK ubicom32 was deprecated because it was hard to maintain, need a different toolchain, ip6k and ip5k had not mmu and some other things. IP8k seems to have mmu and some interesting features, but still has its own architecture. Take a look at this link to check the status: https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/branches/attitude_adjustment/target/linux/ubicom32 The GCC version is 4.4.7.
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