On 5/2/23 07:26, Enrico Mioso wrote:
On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 04:56:36PM -0400, Peter Naulls wrote:
On 5/1/23 16:42, Dave Taht wrote:
one of the constraints OpenWrt has been placed under, historically, is the need
to fit in small flash memoris, so fitting some libraries and infrastructure
maybe a little bit of a stretch here.
Furthermore, OpenWrt has been tought to be a platform, not a "finished" solution: this is
not meant bo be an "excluse", just to note that some particular problems, and their
solutions, have not been integrated in the core.
In some cases, like for ModemManager, the problems where related to size and
complexity, I think.
Yes, although that's more historic; one of the reasons we did in fact go to NAND
below is due to size constraints; and indeed with ModemManager. It took us a
long time to get ModemManager working how we liked it, since it's not a 100%
solution all by itself, and our needs are very specific.
Another impression I have, is that the OpenWrt project is very important for
many yet under-resourced.
There are some important tasks that would help with the long-term maintenance
(e.g. merging of the mtk_nand for mt7621 and the upstrema one, if at all
possible), which require time and highly motivated person to carry on.
I was that person, but at this point, the upstream m7621 NAND driver works
correctly, *except* when the MMC is also enabled. The mtk_nand driver is very
old and I did get it to run correctly for reads under current kernel, but it
didn't seem to have any further value here, and many obvious faults - see my
discussion on this a few months back. If there's specific work you know of
here, I'd be very interested.
As for what will happen with OpenWrt when it will become used in some important
places, I don't have an answer of course.
Does anyone know how much contributions come from people working for companies
in OpenWrt?
Who knows. I will say that OpenWrt has formed a large part of my career. As
measured by patches (which frankly, is something of a time-consuming hurdle), my
contributions are very very small, but all my OpenWrt work has been under
companies.
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