Hi, I'm looking into replacing DumaOS with OpenWRT one my XR500 (aka R7800) with 1 Gbps downlink from ISP and just doing research about "unofficial features you want to have", so far it looks like I want to produce a custom 22.03 based build with:
- patches/tweaks from @hnyman in "Build for Netgear R7800"
- NSS offloading enabled " Ipq806x NSS build (Netgear R7800 / TP-Link C2600 / Linksys EA8500)"
Now a few things unclear (went through the discussion a bit, but since this is 1000+ posts):
- Somewhat unclear story with bad blocks - I understand this isn't handled during flashing and rootfs ends up misplaced by one block? Can't you just remove one (or multiple) blocks of padding in the image (before rootfs) and flash w/o need of initramfs? Don't really have an issue with going through initramfs once but prefer not having to open the router all the time
- Does NSS work for both wired and wireless?
- What's the difference between ath10k vs ath10k-ct driver?
- Builds are based off kernel 5.10 or need to use 5.15 for anything in NSS (or is the work on 5.15 more of moving to the next LTS kernel)?