[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 2/2] ar71xx: add support for TP-LINK TL-WR841N/ND v10

[Alexander Couzens]

After taking some time to think about this.

Wouldn't luci tell the user it's running on a 841 v9?
This could confuse them because a v9 sysupgrade wouldn't work.
sysupgrade fails then. Also an automatic upgrade based on system info
wouldn't work either.

As long we don't have dts support, I see here two solution. Add another
mips machine or change the board detection to detect this difference.

Best,
lynxis

On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:28:09 +0100
Alexander Couzens <lynxis at fe80.eu> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 01:21:58 +0100
> Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer at universe-factory.net> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, but I know what I'm doing. The hardware is similar enough to
> > boot with the exact same initialization routines as the v9, thus
> > reusing the BOARDNAME is fine (it is done like this for other
> > hardware as well - OpenWrt has a distinction between "board" and
> > "model", where multiple models can have the same board, but still
> > each model has its own images)
> > 
> > On TP-LINK devices, sysupgrade checks the TPLINK_HWID of the image
> > against the one in the flash, the BOARDNAME doesn't matter (except
> > to determine that it is a TP-LINK device).  
> 
> Sorry, no offensive. I forgot the tplink specific check within
> sysupgrade.



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