Add support for Linksys EA6350 v3

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As reminder for those lamenting the disappearance of pre-builds, recent commits to OpenWRT master have made it straigtforward to create customs images with a more "standard" set of packages: luci, sqm, adblocking, vpn, etc.

The two simplest options are:

  1. Use the latest imagebuilder snapshot and follow the OpenWRT wiki directions.
  2. Use the online image builder created by @aparcar. Simply select the "OpenWRT" distribution, "snapshots" version, "EA6350v3" device, and flavour "OpenWrt with web interface". Then click "Create Image" and wait for you links to be created. Here's a link to a standard luci-included image I created just today.

The EA6350v3 support in `master` is now great, with solid wifi and stability as far as I've seen. There are still a few minor issues to be addressed however.

I've noticed the switch and VLAN problems as well. The default network setup works, but it doesn't appear to match the internal switch configuration:

# swconfig dev switch0 show
...
VLAN 1:
        vid: 1
        ports: 0 1 2 3 4
VLAN 2:
        vid: 2
        ports: 0t 5

Although the current network setup puts "lan" as eth0 and "wan" as eth1, based on the switch both appear to be VLANs routed between a single CPU port 0, which traditionally would be a lan/wan of eth0.1/eth0.2 (but that causes problems).

Starting to fix things, I think CPU port 0 needs to be tagged on VLAN 1. After testing this, the VLAN page looks as expected:

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However, the board setup code still needs updating to fix this during a "clean" install, or perhaps a custom /etc/board.json could be used. @gapf2010 What changes did you make? Does your luci page look similar to mine above?

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