Yes, I still have some in use as routers personally. The devices I upgraded were still in production usage as home wireless routers.
I haven't noticed this. How much slower - compared to which previous version?
It's good to know they are still used as routers
I have some with others with 64M, and I think then are very limited now with v23
I jump from V19 to V23 as I just didn't like v21 & v22
wsdd2 contributed to this as I think it's still broken for v21 & v22
so I think they are the versions I'm thinking of V19 to V23
it maybe my imagination as well tho
thinking about it was it really unstable under v21 or v22 as in flash
I wanted to make sure you recall that there's another partition on the device - the Emergency Recovery.
I think we'll often forget that when counting the 8 MB available flash space.
16 MB, 15.5 of which are available in one big firmware partition. IIRC the image size is not the reason people are slimming it down, they are doing it to reduce the chance of hitting a block that causes squashfs to glitch out.
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My bad, correct.
Gotcha!
Postscript: I just managed to boot OpenWrt 23.05.4 on my N750, probably out of sheer luck that my device is not one of the afflicted ones. And I immediately noticed ...
... that there still is no DSA on ath79. This means that for my personal usecase ("switch and/or supplementary access point") there is little to no benefit of running a current OpenWrt over the last "squashfs bug free" 19.07.
That being said, I feel that the bug still should be squashed (pun intended), as a 16/128 device it still has some life left in it.
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