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W1700K Status Update 2026-04-29
Official 25.12 Support
Recently Merged
Assorted prerequisites for official 25.12 support have been merged in the past few weeks, including some backports for kernel 6.12, necessary firmware updates, AN7581+MT7996 NPU support, and so forth.
In-Progress
- U-Boot chainloader backport
- Blocked on mainline u-boot partitioning change
- Device support
- Blocked on backport above
SNAPSHOT 
In-Progress Items
There are many items in-progress against main. This is a highlight of the most interesting changes of late.
- U-Boot partitioning table change to prevent units soft-bricking on sysupgrades
- Pending maintainer review and approval
- Replacement of 10G port support with mainline Linux
- Can anyone highlight the specific advantages expected of this change?
- Pending maintainer review and approval
- This may need a workaround for our device specifically
- Enabling kernel 6.18 as a testing kernel
- Pending maintainer review and approval
- Enable crypto offload
- Blocked on 6.18 kernel support
- Pending maintainer review and approval
Community Builds
These builds, including those by Openwrt-fanboy, contain any number of experimental patches that may either help or raise their own set of issues. There may be some builds that are intended to be as close to stable or as close to the expected 25.12 release as possible. They are welcome to be discussed over here 
: Gemtek W1700K Community Builds
This update aims to keep the thread focused on mainline OpenWrt support. Corrections welcome. Bugs in SNAPSHOT can be discussed in this thread with a commit hash and reproduction steps.