[OpenWrt-Devel] ar71xx Vs ath79

Stijn Segers foss at volatilesystems.org
Mon Dec 3 12:29:55 EST 2018


Op ma, 3 dec 2018 om 5:51 , schreef John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>:
> 
> On 03/12/2018 16:56, Petr Štetiar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm just going through the oldest PRs on GitHub, and I've noticed, 
> that ath79
> > submissions are being more preferred between maintainers and that 
> ar71xx PRs
> > are basically stalled, there are 24 open PRs for ar71xx Vs 14 open 
> PRs for
> > ath79. So I'm wondering, what's the plan, is ar71xx being slowly 
> and (quietly
> > :-)) turned into 'fixes only' mode and new devices/features should 
> be now
> > added to ath79/DTS only? Thanks!
> >
> > -- ynezz
> 
> 
> The idea was to fade out ar71xx after the next release and only accept
> new boards for ath79. However i'd been fine taking that step as of 
> now.
> i have noticed that the ath79 patches far out number the ar71xx ones. 
> we
> have lots of patches that migrate boards and i have seen a few new
> boards added only to ath79. lets see how the thread goes, looking fwd 
> to
> hearing opinions...
> 
>      John
Rather than further duplicating efforts, I'd 'encourage'* ath79 only 
submissions.

Stijn

* Sounds nicer than enforcing. But I actually mean the latter :-)

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