OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released
OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released
Posted Sep 17, 2015 8:23 UTC (Thu) by fb (guest, #53265)In reply to: OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released by marcH
Parent article: OpenWrt "Chaos Calmer" 15.05 released
> Maybe because TP-Link bases their own software on openWRT?
I believe most of the vendors base their firmware on OpenWRT. In practice, the real deal breaker for OpenWrt support *without blobs* is the chipset support. If it is an Atheros chipset, there are good odds that it will be supported. If it is Broadcom or Marvell, it will (normally) not be supported. (This is an oversimplification, but you get my point).
For instance the TP-Link Archer C5 v1.2 is Atheros based and has full support. Now the updated version of it, TP-Link Archer C5 v2.0, is Broadcom based and unsupported.