Gateworks would like to announcethe release & support of OpenWrt 16.02 on the Ventana and Laguna family of Single Board Computers. This OpenWrt release falls under the Designated Driverrelease of OpenWrt. OpenWrt isa Linux operating system that Gateworks uses for networking centric tasks, wireless access points, router functions, IoT and more. Please review the below updates and highlights and update to OpenWrt 16.02.
OpenWrt 16.02Updates and Highlights:
- General:
- Moved to git for SCM of choice
- Gateworks System Controller drivers
- Feeds bumped to 2016-02-17
- Updated to latest wireless drivers (backports-20151218)
- IEEE802.11 adhoc throughput increased for HT rates (iw 4.3)
- Bump to Linux 4.4.0 Kernel
- busybox-1.24.1
- gcc-5.2.0
- binutils-2.25.1
- Moved from uclibc to musl-1.1.12
- Ventana:
- Bump to Linux 4.4.0 Kernel from 3.14.16
- ~50% increased FEC driver performance
- l2cache enabled
- Hardware crypto support
- squashfs+ubifs overlay for recovery
- dsa/swconfig support for GW16083
- HDMI out, no VPU/GPU
- LVDS out, no VPU/GPU
- Low-Latency RS485 support
- Laguna:
- Bump to Linux 4.4.0 Kernel from 3.10.49
- GW2393 Support
To get started, Gateworks has posted Pre-Built images on the Wiki page. The wiki page also documents building from source.
- OpenWrt Software Release Notes and Building Wiki Page
- Ventana Pre-Built OpenWrt Images
- Laguna Pre-Built OpenWrt Images
Please try OpenWrt 16.02 and contact Gateworks with any questions. Their support team is happy and available to work with you!