Asus RT-N66U/W: Firmwage images per color?

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1

I found the following firmware images for Asus RT-N66:

  • lede-brcm47xx-mips74k-asus-rt-n66u-squashfs.trx
  • lede-brcm47xx-mips74k-asus-rt-n66w-squashfs.trx

According to https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-n66u, the only difference between both is the color:
U = black
W = white

Is there any other reason for building two different images?

Just wondering... :slight_smile:

2

Indeed they seem to use the same image identification ID:

define Device/asus-rt-n66u
  DEVICE_TITLE := Asus RT-N66U
  $(Device/asus)
  PRODUCTID := RT-N66U
endef
TARGET_DEVICES += asus-rt-n66u

define Device/asus-rt-n66w
  DEVICE_TITLE := Asus RT-N66W
  $(Device/asus)
  PRODUCTID := RT-N66U
endef
TARGET_DEVICES += asus-rt-n66w

(hint: PRODUCTID := RT-N66U).

I guess noone noticed this when we were adding these identical images.

3

I just noticed that 2 years after we still have u + w images...

Nobody interested in cleaning this up?-)

It certainly doesn't hurt to have two images, but why have 2 when one would do?

4

You're welcome to be that hero :slight_smile: