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The only reasonable choice here is to vote with our wallet and go with another company.

openwrt is not possible to use on a lot of new hardware, it's also not possible to use new versions on older hardware, they started to require more minimum RAM/FLASH. DSL or GPON is of the table

> it's also not possible to use new versions on older hardware, they started to require more minimum RAM/FLASH.

You shouldn't imply that OpenWRT is in any way bloated.

The kind of hardware that doesn't have enough RAM or storage for OpenWRT is truly pathetic. Those devices don't have enough CPU power to route traffic at reasonable speeds, their WiFi radios are so outdated that operating them in a crowded 2.4GHz band is an obscene waste of airtime, and even with the manufacturer's firmware those devices usually can't support features like IPv6. A router that old is usually only worth using as a managed Ethernet switch, if it even supports gigE.

Is that the same Broadcom that makes the closed GPU on RaspberryPi? Why, oh why, can't they just play nice and document their hardware. Maybe they want to get bought by NVidia!