[Make-wifi-fast] Updated LEDE build with airtime patches

[Loganaden Velvindron]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 2:28 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> writes:
>
>> Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
>>>> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I created an updated build of current LEDE head with added airtime
>>>>> fairness patches, and the patch to re-enable the intermediate queues for
>>>>> ath10k. I.e., the contents of my repo here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://kau.toke.dk/git/lede/
>>>>>
>>>>> Builds for some common ar71xx devices are here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://kau.toke.dk/lede/airtime-fairness-builds/ar71xx/generic/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Toke, I tested with 6 mobile phones connected on a 20 MB/s
>>> Internet. No crashes so far on ath9k. No pppoe support out of the box
>>> for the firmware for the WAN interface.
>>
>> Cool, thanks :)
>>
>>>>
>>>> These builds have now been updated to a new version of the airtime
>>>> fairness patch (that was also posted to the list a few hours ago).
>>>> Please take them for a spin. Once I have confirmation that they don't
>>>> blow up catastrophically, I'll submit the patch for inclusion in LEDE :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> It would be nice if we could get firmware images, and also please can
>>> you ship it with mod-pppoe modules built-in for bridged connections ?
>>
>> I'm hoping that I won't have to keep building images for so much longer.
>> But I'll add pppoe the next time round, sure :)
>
>
> Since the airtime fairness patches haven't been merged yet, here's an
> updated build, rebased on upstream LEDE head:
>
> https://kau.toke.dk/lede/airtime-fairness-builds/ar71xx/generic/
>
>
> Note that the file names have changed. This build should also include
> the kmod-pppoe package.
>
> -Toke
Thank you.

Tested with 4 mobile phones, while stressed with flent on a linux
laptop having an ath5k chipset. Pretty good.

Btw, I was wondering about replacing the ath5k radio with an ath9k
card. Any recommendation ?