On 5/04/2013 18:49, Andrew Worsley wrote:
Just got what looks to be a pretty good deal on what appears to have GPL version of the code made available.
You may be surprised, but this is actually *very* common. The majority of consumer routers out there run a homebrew Linux of some form, and have their open source components available upon request. Unfortunately only a small minority of consumer routers are supported by distros such as OpenWrt, despite having the manufacturer's source code available. This is mainly a limitation of time and popularity, rather than it being a difficult technical challenge. Most consumer routers use a very standard architecture. All that's needed is to figure out how the bootloader works, where to store the data, and everything else is standard to the architecture, and already supported by Linux.