Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has the D-Link R36 BE3600. Its extremely cheap, has 4x2.5G and 2.4+5 Radios supporting 802.11be. I was considering it for cheap APs. Currently theres no GPL tarball to check whether its got the Broadcom illness or uses a real vendor.
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Qualcomm SOCs do support secure boot eFUSEs - and quite a few vendors have used that for their wifi6 devices already.
Currently OpenWrt has no support for ipq53xx, ipq95xx support is needed for that first (and that's not really in immediate sight at this point either).
512 MB RAM are probably somewhere between very tight and outright insufficient for ath12k (it already is problematic for ath11k). High-end ipq9574 based routers ship with 2 GB RAM, vendors wouldn't do that if the hardware doesn't need it.
Do not bet on -potential- future hardware support, unless you want to become the maintainer developing- and mainlining it, it's a losing game - especially if the whole SOC isn't already fully supported. Even in the best of all cases (not likely), it would take years+ (at least 2, probably 3) for this to -maybe- get supported, at which point this hardware is boring, with cheaper/ supported options on the market.
Thank you slh for the detailed reply, I don't know much about wireless devices and its hard enough for me to get my switch supported right now, therefore maintainership for the R36 is out of reach for me as of today. Also the memory and boot things mean that I won't be considering the device anymore and will rather go with mediatek instead.
