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a modular framework for creating OpenWrt-based firmwares for wireless mesh nodes
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Requesting adoption of Netgear Nighthawk X6 r8000 #2531

Closed smoe closed 2 years ago

smoe commented 2 years ago

Hello,

OpenWrt describes the r8000 as working (https://openwrt.org/toh/netgear/r8000) , even though the Broadcom chipset would not upfront allow to expect that. I wanted to give it a try. However, I utterly failed to integrate the building of that bcm53xx target (already found in 19.07) with gluon.

Could you please add this machine as "broken, untested" to Gluon or give me a pointer how to integrate a new target? I had added new devices for existing targets before and somehow it is more than just creating that file and adding the include in targets.mk.

Many thanks!

herbetom commented 2 years ago

You did already notice the few notes withing https://gluon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/hardware.html#adding-support-for-new-hardware-targets regarding adding new targets?

blocktrron commented 2 years ago

@smoe Please provide a link to your branch where you've tried to add the target.

FWIW, Broadcom is a dead end considering wireless support, so I will close this issue for this reason.

smoe commented 2 years ago

@blocktrron,

@smoe Please provide a link to your branch where you've tried to add the target.

Thank you for what I interpret as an implicit offer of yours to have a look. I had changed/tried so much that I could not provide anything I would want you to investigate, sorry for that extra time to get back to you. In the background, I now have 2022.1 compiling and as soon as time permits will revisit my shot at the r8000 and then drop the URL here.

FWIW, Broadcom is a dead end considering wireless support, so I will close this issue for this reason.

Please check out the comment on https://openwrt.org/toh/netgear/r8000 that states that the brcmfmac driver in the kernel is well supported and hence this device an exception to the rule. If my understanding is not completely off then please kindly consider to reopen this issue.