Re: [Cerowrt-devel] New Linksys router

[Rich Brown <richb.hanover@gmail.com>]

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Despite a couple calls and e-mails to Mike Chen and Karen Sohl last week, I have not had a response. I’ll keep trying this week after they return from the CES show.

Rich

On Jan 7, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Rich Brown <richb.hanover@gmail.com> wrote:

> The press release for the new Linksys WRT1900AC has some details: 1.2GHz dual-core ARM, 128MBytes Flash, 256MBytes DDR3 RAM, 2.4 & 5 GHz dual band, lots of other good stuff. http://www.linksys.com/en-us/press/releases/2014-01-06_Linksys_wrt_revolutionizes_wireless_networking
> 
> … and also…
> 
> On Jan 7, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Jim Gettys <jg@freedesktop.org> wrote:
> 
>> Exactly what chips are inside?
>> 
>> Any binary blobs?  Binary blob device drivers are non-starters. Binary blob firmware (e.g. in a wireless chip), can be handled if necessary if the code is available to the community (as is the case with ath9k).
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>> When we can get some (if they are interesting)? 
>> 
>> When will their code base be available?
> 
> Good point on the blobs. I’m hopeful that their big emphasis on Open Source versions (they mention OpenWrt) will avoid the blobs. 
> 
> Best, 
> 
> Rich


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