Netgear R7800 vs Linksys MR8300

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If you're located in North America, https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/askey/rt4230w_rev6 would be a viable alternative (starting around 20 USD on the used markets), apart from that there are several less popular (supported) ipq806x devices that can occassionally be found rather cheaply (e.g. ZyXEL Armor Z2 NBG6817, ASRock G10, Linksys EA8500, …).

IPQ40xx Switch Config "Strangeness" (swconfig)

Impacting EA8300 and apparently EA6350v3, the IPQ40xx switch in these devices seems to have a mind of its own about VLANs and configuration. From what I've read, this is a "non-standard" switch that may require additional development work to have functional VLANs. It seems as though the two Ethernet phys are internally "wired" to VLANs off switch port 0. These devices appear to be dual-NIC devices, which may be almost certainly are a different wrinkle than dealt with in other threads / patches…

RFC: Represent IPQ40xx ess-edma MAC as single interface

Hey all, I've just started developing support for some and thereby also using Qualcomm IPQ4019 devices. During development I stumbled upon the strange VLAN and network interface configuration required for IPQ40xx devices which has also been discussed here on multiple threads before. It struck me as rather odd and after doing a deep dive through the ess-edma driver I'd like to propose a set of conceptual changes to that driver. But let me first describe how it is set up current just so that w…

ipq40xx: introduce proper ethernet and DSA support