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Does OpenWRT still mean that speeds are slower due to not having proprietary drivers?
by antihero 5y ago
Does OpenWRT still mean that speeds are slower due to not having proprietary drivers?
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoDoesn't matter, because you cän OVERCLOQQ!1!! https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/bootloader/pepe2k https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/bootloader/pepe2k https://github.com/pepe2k/u-boot_mod https://github.com/pepe2k/u-boot_mod No, seriously ;-) What you are thinking of is probably described here https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/hardware/switch https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/hardware/switch and has a long history. Basically it depends on having opensourced drivers, or at least specifications for the internals of the affected switcheroos, which wasn't the case for many chips for a long time, and still isn't for all of them. Then there is the part of writing a unifying and usable abstraction for all of that, which also isn't fully there yet, at least not for every device under the sun. Read up here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/switchdev.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/switchdev....
- dredmorbius 5y agoNot to any significant extent AFAIA, though specifics will depend on the device, components, and drivers in question. In almost all cases, OpenWRT extends rather than restricts device capabilities. That said: choose your hardware based on OpenWRT support if at all possible.