Hi guys, just wondering if there is any chance how we can get the TP Link festa series support. Those ones are in really good deal. The F65 is based on ipq50xx series and the gpl code is as follows.
https://static.tp-link.com/upload/gpl-code/2024/202403/20240328/FestaF65v1_GPL.tar.gz
ipq50xx SOC support isn't close to being merged, you are looking at a multiple months+ effort for that.
If these particular devices can then be supported, is yet another (unknown) question, there are many ways the vendor may choose to make this difficult, ranging from cut serial console traces (TP-Link loves to do this), secure boot and firmware signing. Neither tends new device support to appear by pure magic and wishful thinking, someone with the device on their desk (as in, probably you, yourself) will have to spend their (several weeks++) time on the hands down development to submit their changes to OpenWrt.
Never bet on future device support, always choose among already supported devices.
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