Sorry about that. I had clicked into Reply to List and for some reason
it included only one of them.
Then the question may be simpler only about 32MB of RAM if it's the case
for newer devices or not.
Let's see others opinions. I am not entirely convinced but I see your point.
Fernando
On 05/12/2018 12:18, Mathias Kresin wrote:
Please don't top post and keep all lists as recipients. I added
openwrt-devel back to the list of recipients.
05/12/2018 14:57, Fernando Frediani:
Hi
Just to make it clear you mean that for the master right ? Not for
18.06 (when it becomes 19.0x) and LEDE 17.01 (while it's still alive) ?
If so I agree 4MB isn't something much feasible anymore.
You got my mail wrong. It is about not accepting new patches for such
boards. Dropping support for existing boards wasn't mentioned and
isn't my intention.
Btw. master will be 19.0x.
Mathias
However for 32MB devices I have serious doubts as mentioned in
another email there are good devices that may work well with 32MB/8MB
and I don't think hardly dropping it is a good idea, at least not for
the current 18.06.
And I am still seeing that some new devices are going to marketed
with 32MB/8MB so 64MB RAM ones are not majority yet.
Do you have any numbers of how much effort will be put into that to
perhaps justify this hard drop for 32MB ones and mainly about the
popularity of these devices from the download website ?
I am not sure a vote would be the best thing to use in this scenario,
otherwise there would need to be a vote for other things discussed
and not always that is something ends well. Let's see how this thread
goes before considering it.
Regards
Fernando
On 05/12/2018 06:56, Mathias Kresin wrote:
Hey all,
I would like to start to reject patches for adding boards with only
32 MByte of RAM and 4 MByte of flash [0]. These boards barely work
with todays OpenWrt default builds and require quite some
modifications to be useful at all [1].
IMHO it doesn't make much sense to waste resources (reviewer time,
build resources) for boards which will most likely never see an
official build and/or are more or less unusable with the official
build.
I prefer to have a joint statement which I can link to, to prevent
endless discussions or accusations of acting purely arbitrary.
I'm not sure whether the topic qualifies for a formal voting, hence
the RFC.
Mathias
[0] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/1577
[1] https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/432_warning
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