I'm adding support for routers to Althea.net's mesh routing software, which is based on OpenWRT. I've had a couple of problems with this firmware for the ea7300 that makes it harder to support than the wrt series routers that also have dual boot partitions.
- Requiring to first flash the OEM firmware and then the openwrt factory image is very non-intuitive and interferes with the ease of flashing this device. Also, it's poorly documented.
- Sometimes in power outages or other situations our users have their routers jump to the other partition. With other dual boot routers, we can make sure our custom firmware is on both partitions. But with this router, if it jumps to the OEM partition, then their internet service stops.
We'd like to support this router, but this firmware's extra flashing steps and preventing our usage of both partitions is a blocker.
There's a forum thread where someone reports adding "normal" dual partition support. Can we get this into mainline? EA7300, Flash to "Wrong" Partition