Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] GPL Violation to chase + Engenius/Senao firmware non-update

2018-11-12 Thread Michael Holstein
> Thus, be if for breaking into something so you can flash it (my use) Forgot to mention .. pesky issue I keep running into, is disabled TX on the UART. This was probably documented somewhere obvious but not such that Google found it as easily as it will now. So if you're wondering WTF why can't

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] GPL Violation to chase + Engenius/Senao firmware non-update

2018-11-12 Thread Michael Holstein
> Okay .. Engenius problem sorted for the most part, and this works on FWIW I found an easier way and this may a (minor) security issue that exists in other versions, didn't really check. The "fwup" command accepts the '&' characters that's a common URL argument, but it accepts it unbounded. Thus

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] brcm2708: add kernel 4.14 support

2018-11-12 Thread Stijn Tintel
On 12/11/18 19:00, Christian Lamparter wrote: > (Did some EMails get mangled?: > "openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org j...@openwrt.org" ") > > On Monday, November 12, 2018 4:55:12 PM CET Stijn Tintel wrote: >> On 12/11/18 15:26, Alexandru Ardelean wrote: >>> [Related to RPi] The RPi kernel seems a bit

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt Roadmap

2018-11-12 Thread Alberto Bursi
On 12/11/18 21:40, John Clark wrote: We are talking of embedded hardware, stuff that can be replaced with future-proof hardware (4+ years) for 20-30$ in most cases. I don't think it is worth the manpower required to have any real attempt at a LTS (i.e. backporting security fixes). I supp

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt Roadmap

2018-11-12 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Alberto Bursi wrote: I quite frankly don't believe it's worth allocating what limited manpower there is. While I'm not a OpenWrt developer and I don't speak on behalf of the project, I really believe that you are underestimating the effort required behind even a basic LTS

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt Roadmap

2018-11-12 Thread Alberto Bursi
On 12/11/18 21:57, Fernando Frediani wrote: Totally agree with Luiz. That was the idea behind this proposal and you managed to even easier words. Alberto, the tiny subtarget you mentioned doesn't really seem to run well or stably for 18.06 on many of these devices regardless the flash size,

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt Roadmap

2018-11-12 Thread Fernando Frediani
Totally agree with Luiz. That was the idea behind this proposal and you managed to even easier words. Alberto, the tiny subtarget you mentioned doesn't really seem to run well or stably for 18.06 on many of these devices regardless the flash size, that's the main point. As mentioned there are

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] octeon: Allow sysupgrade restore on ER

2018-11-12 Thread Stijn Tintel
On 12/11/18 17:56, Jonathan Thibault wrote: > This is a very simple patch that completes sysupgrade functionality on > UBNT ER8. > > Default layout leaves about 128MB free on the kernel partition so > there is plenty of space for temporary config backups. > > > diff --git a/target/linux/octeon/base

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt Roadmap

2018-11-12 Thread John Clark via openwrt-devel
The sender domain has a DMARC Reject/Quarantine policy which disallows sending mailing list messages using the original "From" header. To mitigate this problem, the original message has been wrapped automatically by the mailing list software.--- Begin Message --- > We are talking of embedded har

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt Roadmap

2018-11-12 Thread Alberto Bursi
On 12/11/18 21:20, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca wrote: Hello, There are a significant amount of devices out there that has 4/32 specs. Even brand new ones. If there is stability issues with newer OpenWrt versions on those devices, we should rethink LEDE EOL. Maintenance burden is directly relate

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt Roadmap

2018-11-12 Thread Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca
Hello, There are a significant amount of devices out there that has 4/32 specs. Even brand new ones. If there is stability issues with newer OpenWrt versions on those devices, we should rethink LEDE EOL. Maintenance burden is directly related to the amount of software to maintain. At the same tim

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] brcm2708: add kernel 4.14 support

2018-11-12 Thread Christian Lamparter
(Did some EMails get mangled?: "openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org j...@openwrt.org" ") On Monday, November 12, 2018 4:55:12 PM CET Stijn Tintel wrote: > On 12/11/18 15:26, Alexandru Ardelean wrote: > > [Related to RPi] The RPi kernel seems a bit hard to maintain in the > > OpenWrt tree, because if y

[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] octeon: Allow sysupgrade restore on ER

2018-11-12 Thread Jonathan Thibault
This is a very simple patch that completes sysupgrade functionality on UBNT ER8. Default layout leaves about 128MB free on the kernel partition so there is plenty of space for temporary config backups. diff --git a/target/linux/octeon/base-files/lib/preinit/79_move_config b/target/linux/oct

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] brcm2708: add kernel 4.14 support

2018-11-12 Thread Stijn Tintel
On 12/11/18 15:26, Alexandru Ardelean wrote: > Hey, Hi, please don't top-post :-) > > The lan78xx stuff you removed seems to cause some endless prints like this: > ** 10 printk messages dropped ** [ timestamp ] lan78xx 1-1.1.1:1.0 > eth0: kevent 4 may have been dropped I'll add the lan78xx patches

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] brcm2708: add kernel 4.14 support

2018-11-12 Thread Alexandru Ardelean
Hey, The lan78xx stuff you removed seems to cause some endless prints like this: ** 10 printk messages dropped ** [ timestamp ] lan78xx 1-1.1.1:1.0 eth0: kevent 4 may have been dropped This happens shortly after booting up. I tested on a RPi 3 Model B+. The kernel is 32bit . [Related to RPi] Th