https://en.avm.de/products/fritzbox/fritzbox-5530-fiber/
it would be nice to have OpenWrt on this fritzbox 5530
Somewhere between unlikely (at least considering its main features) and a long road with an unclear ending ahead.
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https://boxmatrix.info/wiki/FRITZ!Box_5530_Fiber
Woohoo! PRX300 based. That's the MIPS based 3rd generation SoC from Intel's former Home Gateway Platform Division which they sold off to MaxLinear a few years back. Haven't actually seen many real devices with those.
There is actually a whole thread about the abandonment of that MIPS InterAptiv stuff...
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/the-abandonment-of-lantiq-wav300-600-intel-interaptiv
Will receive a AVM Fritz!Box 5530 Fiber soon from Vodafone any update on support or experimental testing yet? Would like to volunteer as test subject.
Did read a completely different thread than anyone else?
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Sorry I thought maybe after 3 years the situation may have changed. I have not yet read the follow up linked thread from @sumo
Just eager to try out OpenWRT as I did not yet have a supported router yet. I am an average de linux mint slob so I may also provide valuable insight into UX for integration.
Just a thought really.
The mere passing of time doesn’t do any development, it just means the devices get older and ‘more boring’, surpassed by modern/ faster/ more capable SOCs. There typically are no magic code fairies involved, either some developers or contributors (ranging from more regular to drive-by~) work on a given target (and in extent individual devices) - or not.
This SOC is relatively rare, while the xDSL companion chip is used on some devices (in combination with different SOCs), the SOC itself remains exotic. Lantiq^wIntel^wMaxlinear wireless has no mainline driver support, never had, there’s no one working on it - nor real chances that anyone will anytime soon (‘ever™’). The ONT side is a quite different (difficult) situation altogether, not quite that different from docsis (which has no driver support either). There is no DECT support in linux at all, so the phone features aren’t likely to become supported (anytime soon^wever(?)) either.
Basically a digital brick 