LEDE on the C7 isn't a problem.  Neither is sch_cake.  Unfortunately
AR71xx is on a 4.1 kernel.

In the very brief flirtation I had with 4.4 on the C7, it appeared to
work except for USB...at that point I backed out :-)

Kevin

On 11/05/16 22:53, Dave Taht wrote:
> looks like it can be easily flashed once again as 49217...
>
> https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500
>
> but Arokh's comprehensive build (which includes sch_cake):
> https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=50914
>
> is a bit out of date...
>
> so I guess I should try lede for the first time via
> https://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/targets/ar71xx/generic/
>
> and try cross compiling sch_cake for it.
>
> ... and if I feel really, really, really, really ambitious, try
> backporting one of michals lovely patchsets to 4.4.
>
> http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/fq_codel_on_ath10k/
>
> https://github.com/kazikcz/linux/tree/fqmac-v4+dqlrfc+cpuregrfix
>
> But I don't feel that ambitious. It *will* be good to blow the dust
> off of the tp-link that made me go to Washington...
>
> here goes...
>
>