[OpenWrt-Devel] Preserving configs over sysupgrade on ath79/tiny broken for some boards (on 19.07 and master), possible solutions

[Petr Štetiar]

David Bauer <mail at david-bauer.net> [2019-12-31 16:20:29]:

Hi,

> release images will not be built for most (if not all), as a full build with LuCI
> will not fit into the flash (even with 4K sector size).

one could still use image builder and generate images which would fit.

OpenWrt offers currently following images:

 - master/snapshot: core images without LuCI
 - releases:        images with LuCI

What about some unification? What about providing same -luci and -core
firmware image variants for both master and release?

For:

 1. Less confusion (different snapshot Vs release image content)
 2. Likely more testing for master LuCI

Against:

 1. Increased storage usage and build time
 2. Additional code supporting those variants, so increased maintenance

> The code is not really an issue, as there's not much code dedicated for 4M
> devices. It's mostly their device-tree, which is maintainable compared to
> the previous ar71xx boardfiles.

Exactly.

> As many people still use these 4M devices (see, for example, the forum)

And finally there is someone interested (Paul) in actually supporting those
devices with patches of very good quality = almost no maintenance effort.

-- ynezz

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