jeff
September 9, 2019, 4:06pm
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Nothing "new" here, as the discussion is over two and a half years old (and foreshadowed by warnings about flash size and RAM long before that).
@dgilmour77 wrote the following after discovering that he could not install LuCI on his older router.
I don't know the answer to this, but have some questions:
How old is a router that only has 4 MBytes flash? Can anyone say how prevalent are they?
How much work is it from a development standpoint to keep developing for these devices?
How much work is it to support people who have these old routers? What happens to people who flash LEDE, then try to install LuCI (or other packages) that won'…
and there has been significant discussion about how those that have a need to continue support of 4/32 devices can proceed for over half a year already
Hi all
Of course we all know that 4/32 devices are near EndOfLife but the fact is, these still are good devices. I, for one, can give oath that our ath79 devices are rock-solid and long-lasting devices. The fact that these can still be purchased new at the stores gives also a clue about how good they are.
I think we should do something to assure we are able to build images for them for as long as possible, and that could be good, not only for 4/32, but for 8/64 in the future, and, in general, …
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