Please make a firmware for my router. TP LINK TL-WR820N

Let's be clear about this (and yes, this is just re-iterating what has already been told about this device):

  • mt7628kn SOC, with 8 MB embedded RAM (non-expandable)
  • 2 MB flash (the wiki says 1 MB, but based on the firmware size it must be 2 MB)
  • OEM firmware is based on VXworks, not linux (so no sources available, blackbox porting would have to start from zero)

OpenWrt's minimum hardware requirements:

  • 8 MB flash (4 MB is no longer enough, even for a custom build it's getting extremely hard to get most basic and bare bones functionality going)
  • 64 MB RAM (32 MB is kind of working, in a very limited way - 16 MB is not, <fullstop> - 8 MB, <muahahaha>)

Chances for OpenWrt support, official or otherwise: 0%.

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