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ericpaulbishop / gargoyle

Gargoyle Router Management Utility
http://www.gargoyle-router.com
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ipq806x: add extra wifi driver and firmware packages, add support for Linksys EA7500 v1 #958

Closed aimacintyre closed 1 year ago

aimacintyre commented 1 year ago

Commit cca11a2: While the ct (Candela Tech) driver and firmware packages are the OpenWrt default, and should remain the Gargoyle default, some users report better results with the original (aka non-ct) driver and firmware packages. As these are kmods, the OpenWrt packages can't be used for Gargoyle so build them to give Gargoyle users the option of installing them in place of the default ct packages.

Additionally there are now several variants of the ct firmware packages and smallbuffers variants (which reduce memory consumption) of the both ct and non-ct driver packages so build them as well.

Commit 27eb818: OpenWrt 21.02 added support for the Linksys EA7500 v1, which is similar to the Linksys EA8500 except for having 256MB of RAM (instead of 512MB) and 3 antennas (instead 4 antennas).

lantis1008 commented 1 year ago

Thanks for this. I agree with the proposal to build (but not include by default) the other variants of ath10k drivers+firmware.

Do you have time/effort available to make a similar patch for the ath79-ath10k/ath10k_large profiles as well? Otherwise I will tackle this at my next available opportunity.

aimacintyre commented 1 year ago

I've added commit d1e9f49 with the config changes for the two ath79 ath10k profiles; both compile tested however I note that with the ath10k profile only the C7 v1 images are completed. I think the others fail the image size checks. I've attached the make log for that profile in case it's helpful. All the ath10_large images are completed. make.ath79_ath10k.log.gz

lantis1008 commented 1 year ago

Thanks! Will review non-building profiles soon