On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 12:54 PM Zoltan HERPAI <wigy...@uid0.hu> wrote:
>> On 09/04/2020 11:25, Adrian Schmutzler wrote:
>> Zoltan HERPAI <wigy...@uid0.hu> wrote:
>>> Sure, a bit late, but there is hardware out there which would benefit from
>>> recent OpenWrt (old ubnt gear, fonera, ... some of them 8/32).
>>> But in terms of resources, ath25 is more advanced than good-old bcm47xx
>>> and also played an important role in OpenWrt history.
>>
>> I'm not opposed to adding it back in general, but from a quick look it 
>> appears to me that devices are either at least 4/32 or broken?
>>
>> So, effectively we would add it just for custom builds and packages.
>>
> Indeed some of the devices are 4/32 or even 4/16 in ath25, but there are a 
> number of 8/32 devices (like Fon2202, Meraki Mini, Ubiquiti PS5, and likely 
> other custom boards). So above the nostalgic feeling, there is some technical 
> reasoning to keep the target around, I'm in favour of that.

Looks like I was wrong in assuming there are no active users of these boards.

I will send another series that reverts target dropping and updates
the kernel to 5.4.

-- 
Sergey

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