Netgear R7800 exploration (IPQ8065, QCA9984)

[hnyman]

From 23.05?
There is swconfig/DSA change. Network config is incompatible.

But you can retain most of the config and trick sysupgrade...

R7800: upgrade 23.05.4 -> 24.10.0

The config breaking change there is the swconfig-->DSA switch config systax migration. You can likely sysupgrade keeping all other config files than /etc/config/network, system (and sqm), which directly refer to network hardware. I have been jumping from/to 23.05 due to my R7800 community build, and I have kept alternate versions of those three, and just renamed the correct version to be the actual before sysupgrade. Old advice in You can get the new defaults by simply removing (or renamin…

Build for Netgear R7800

22.03 is so long ago, that hard to remember. But I do not think that there was anything major between 22.03 and 23.05. For the DSA change after 23.05 to 24.10 and onward, the needed changes depend quite much from for network complexity. With a simple network, the only files are network (actual DSA changes) and system (compatibility value and wan LED config). In addition the config files for those apps that refer to interfaces by name. E.g. for me sqm refers to eth0.2 , which needs now to be wa…