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With the latest Entware updates released yesterday ends an Era for older ARM based Asuswrt-Merlin routers.
They go the same route as the very old MIPS based routers like the RT-AC66U that has not seen Entware updates for years.
The Entware team announced on their Website that
There is a brief discussion on GitHub that gives some hope for a limited backport support but nothing's been decided. This has been done for the MIPS routers for some time until the maintainer maurerr moved on to newer hardware.
Are you affected?
amtm shows the kernel version in its header.
My RT-AC1900P shows
This router runs the same Firmware as the RT-AC68U models and so they too are affected.
Does it matter? Probably not.
Newer ARM based routers with a kernel equal to or newer than armv7sf-k3.2 are not affected and will continue to receive updates.
They go the same route as the very old MIPS based routers like the RT-AC66U that has not seen Entware updates for years.
The Entware team announced on their Website that
Our armv7sf-k2.6, x86-k2.6 and armv5sf-k3.2 feeds are EoS, no more further updates. Porting new software to ancient platforms draws too many attentions of our team. As usual, any package ever been created for Entware stays at bin.entware.net.
There is a brief discussion on GitHub that gives some hope for a limited backport support but nothing's been decided. This has been done for the MIPS routers for some time until the maintainer maurerr moved on to newer hardware.
Are you affected?
amtm shows the kernel version in its header.
My RT-AC1900P shows
ASUS RT-AC1900P HW: armv7l Kernel: 2.6.36.4
and therefore will no longer receive Entware package updates.This router runs the same Firmware as the RT-AC68U models and so they too are affected.
Does it matter? Probably not.
Newer ARM based routers with a kernel equal to or newer than armv7sf-k3.2 are not affected and will continue to receive updates.
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