RE: Re: [leaf-devel] LEAF on Linksys Routers

Openwrt.org is one such project. Looks like we can use stock linux on it and
packages. The development kit/toolchain is on open source published by
Linksys.

Warm regards
Mohan  

> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Martin Hejl
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 6:03 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; 
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> Subject: [Leaf-hardware] Re: [leaf-devel] LEAF on Linksys Routers
> 
> S Mohan wrote:
> > We have been having scores of mail on hardware. AFAIK, Linksys WRT 
> > boxes are Broadcom reference design. Versions of Linux with 
> approriate 
> > software to run on the box has also been created - OpenWRT, 
> Sveasoft 
> > etc. Why not create a LEAF implementation (MIPS based) on 
> the Linksys 
> > boxes? This way we will get cheap hardware $50-60 instead 
> of $150-250 for PC compatible boxes.
> > 
> It surely sounds like an interesting idea (especially since 
> the hardware is relatively cheap - at the moment, I'm working 
> with Soekris boxes which work nicely, but obviously are in a 
> different price range).
> Do you have any specific information on availability and 
> pricing of a "devel-kit" for those things? I mean, it seems 
> somewhat unlikely to me that the boxes themselves have 
> everything one needs to deploy a new OS on them. Time 
> permitting, I'd be willing to play with it, but I really 
> wouldn't want to have to reverse engineer half of the box 
> just to find out how to copy the OS onto such a box. Finding 
> the right drivers and getting them to work might be hard 
> enough anyway...
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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