I mean I had the impression that its already out there. how bad does it RUN?
I use QHora-301W currently with NSS Offloading build compiled from bitthief repo. For my use case it's completely OK after some fine tuning with the help from this great community. I use Guest WLAN, VLAN, Ksmbd sharing, IPv6, and intend to later use VPN, etc. if needed.
I still use several R7800s all running NSS builds. More than 2 years they are all rock solid with latest builds.
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why cant NSS be upstream? is this some intellectual property thing?
slh
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Because the current out-of-tree code doesn't meet upstream standards and expectations by a long shot - it could be rewritten to comply, but that would require months of work for a dedicated team of developers (and without access to hardware documentation and participation of QCA to change the proprietary firmware where needed, you can multiply the time and effort necessary).
There's a difference between 'it compiles, let's ship it' and beating complicated driver code (that hooks deeply into the kernel's netfilter code and bypasses it in many ways) into a shape that is maintainable long term with a prospect of mainline acceptance.
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thanks for that detailed answer 
any news regarding permanent flashing?
retzs64
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Hi ! I'm very motivated about making openwrt fully working on ax89x. Where should I beging ? I'm a openwrt debugger beginner, although I've been using linux for quite a while now so not scared by this task !
Finally had some time so I added the LED-s.
I need to sort out the GPIO FAN and then make a way to permanently install and it should be ready.
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work with robimarko would be my answer. He already has one.
retzs64
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I've got one on my own too, thx for the advice. Where could we communicate without annoying everyone on this page ? @robimarko
Here is fine, though I dont know what is there to communicate about?
I mean, your still trying to find a way to flash openwrt to the flashrom of this router, right?
thats something retzs64 could probably, and the keyword here is "probably", help you out on.
Cool. Now I am sure you are aware that there are two different versions of this router? If you have hardware revision B1 or B2, you should be good to go. I have verified that B1 and B2 have version 2 of the 8074 SOC.
I have flashing working via UART, but maybe its possible to get it working via stock WEB UI as well.
Other than that, fan needs tweaking as I need to measure speed at different levels to properly map them and that is an issue as I dont have a optical tachometer.
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maybe we can support you to get such an optical tachometer. would that help?
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Its fairly expensive for one time usage.
There is an RPM pin that I might try adding support for to measure RPM.
Hopefully, I have some time over the weekend.
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What if you were to share it with your fellow colleagues?
I say this assuming you all live close enough with each other. I mean I dont know about you, but a 30 minute to 1 hour drive is not that bad as long as you got some errands to do along the way.
This is me speaking from personal experience along with throwing ideas against the wall to see if they stick. It is not my intentions to twist arms here.
Thats the thing, we all work remote so that's not practical.
If I could find a cheap one it would be wort the one-off price.
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if its such a low amount of money, i would donate that