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Topic: TL-WDR8400 used qca9561-al3a & qca9984. Can i upgrade it openwrt?

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Hi everybody!
I bought TL-WDR8400 , menu is Chinese . Maybe it has backdoors . So can I upgrade openwrt for it? Has anyone ever used it?
It used qca9561-al3a & qca9984 chipset. I have just opened it last night.
Thanks

Look up the flash and RAM chip numbers to see the size. TPlink makes a lot of "China only" models with small memories and non-Linux firmware to fit them.

mk24 wrote:

Look up the flash and RAM chip numbers to see the size. TPlink makes a lot of "China only" models with small memories and non-Linux firmware to fit them.

Thank for reply mk24!
It used winbond 25q64fvsig flash & M14D1G1664A 2.5B ram.

Most likely:
25q64fvsig = 64 Mbit = 8 MB
M14D1G1664A = 8M x 16 Bit x 8 Banks = 128 MB
That should be enough for OpenWrt. It's another question if it's ported or if anyone will do it.

tunk wrote:

Most likely:
25q64fvsig = 64 Mbit = 8 MB
M14D1G1664A = 8M x 16 Bit x 8 Banks = 128 MB
That should be enough for OpenWrt. It's another question if it's ported or if anyone will do it.

Thanks Tunk .

Hi Hiroshi,

Did you manage to install openwrt on the device?

Thanks in advance!

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