On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 09:24:52AM -0400, Peter Naulls wrote: > 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.
Thanks for your reply. No, I don't know wether work is ongoing on that at the moment, sorry. Enrico > > > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
