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OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

To keep the project going, lead developers have proposed creating a "fully upstream supported hardware design," one that would prevent the need for handling "binary blobs" in modern router hardware and let DIY router enthusiasts forge their own path.

There are two flash chips on the board to allow for both a main loader and a write-protected recovery.

And there's such an emphasis on a battery-backed RTC because "we believe there are many things a Wi-Fi … device should have on-board by default."

OpenWrt, which has existed in parallel with the DD-WRT project that sprang from the same firmware moment, powers a number of custom-made routers.

It and other open source router firmware faced an uncertain future in the mid-2010s, when Federal Communications Commission rules, or at least manufacturers' interpretation of them, made them seem potentially illegal.

In 2020, OpenWrt patched a code-execution exploit due to unencrypted update channels.

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