Build for Netgear R7800

[hnyman]

@jcadduono

Yeah you can ssh into ddwrt and type
mtd erase linux
or maybe it was mtd erase kernel, haven’t used ddwrt in a while
then type reboot and tftp LEDE R7800 squashfs factory.img to 192.168.1.1

Why bother to erase the dd-wrt kernel partition at all, if your goal is to utilise the OEM recovery TFTP mode for the actual flashing. Simply just trigger the TFTP mode manually...

Netgear R7800 exploration (IPQ8065, QCA9984)

R7800 has an easy-to-use TFTP recovery mode in the bootloader, similar as e.g. WNDR3700. @dissent1 gave me the info, which was really useful as I managed to brick the router a few minutes ago when testing thermal drivers. I recovered from a boot loop with this process. Works like a charm. Prerequisites for TFTP recovery A TFTP client for your computer. There are both command-line tools and GUI versions available. (I use currently tftpd64 GUI tool from jounin. tftp2 tool (from dd-wrt) used to…