Constantine, I'm looking into porting OpenWRT to the WD MyNet N900. Since the IP8K has an mmu it should be able to compile without too much issues. I'm currently trying to get the toolchain from trunk to work.
Regards, Luis E. Garcia On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:55 AM, José Vázquez <ppvazquez...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > Regards: > > Pepe > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel >
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