wonder about the footprint

Posted Nov 19, 2024 8:15 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: wonder about the footprint by intelfx
Parent article: A new package manager for OpenWrt

The minimum image size for OpenWRT is 32MB now. It _might_ work on 16MB. At these sizes, a distro manager overhead is not significant.

wonder about the footprint

Posted Nov 19, 2024 8:16 UTC (Tue) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118) [Link]

Even better — then the entire subthread is moot.

wonder about the footprint

Posted Nov 19, 2024 11:10 UTC (Tue) by e-rk (subscriber, #166547) [Link] (2 responses)

Where did you get the info about the 32 MB requirement? At least 16 MB is still listed as recommended [1] and personally I'm still 5.5 MB away from maxing-out a 16 MB device with OpenWRT 23.05 with some extra stuff installed, such as DAWN, dyndns, HTTPS DNS proxy, wireguard, etc.

[1] https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128_ax-wifi

wonder about the footprint

Posted Nov 19, 2024 18:30 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

They officially abandoned smaller devices some time ago. They _may_ work, but it's not guaranteed.

https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/432_warning

wonder about the footprint

Posted Nov 19, 2024 19:01 UTC (Tue) by e-rk (subscriber, #166547) [Link]

Seems like I got it all mixed up then. It looks like you were talking about the RAM, while I was talking about the FLASH. Now it all clicked. :-)