Update: TL-WR1043nd v1 just got updated in -HEAD

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Sat Mar 28 06:57:21 UTC 2015


Hi!

After some reminding from gjb@, I went and re-investigated why the
TL-WR1043nd v1 was running out of flash space.

It turns out OpenWRT moved to using a new way of building images using
mktplinkfw - instead of providing the board name, it just provides the
board id and layout id. Then, it's not restricted to a specific kernel
size or whatnot.

So, the kernel (which is gzip'ed) can be bigger than 1MiB - the
kernel+rootfs just has to be smaller than the total available flash.

I've tested this on the TL-WR1043nd v1 and it's now running -HEAD as
of a few minutes ago.

So in case you're still trying to shoehorn FreeBSD onto it - it's great. :)



-adrian


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