ARM vs MIPS

[Zyxmon]

В последние годы все больше и больше роутеров используют чипсеты с архитектурой ARM. Вот, что сегодня сказал на эту тему Эрик (Мерлин) - http://www.snbforums.com/threads/iphash-maxelem-not-…5076/#post-284159:

I'm gradually deprecating MIPS models (meaning I will no longer hold back ARM development for the sake of the MIPS models).

[Александр Рыжов]

Так причина-то не в MIPS'е, а том, что Asus для разных архитектур не докладывает блобы в дерево исходников.

Из одиннадцати моделей, поддерживаемых asuswrt-merlin, только две имеют MIPS-архитектуру. Естественно, что они пойдут на мороз первыми.

[Zyxmon]

Иcходники arm так же с блобами. Не думаю, что ситуация принципиально другая. Единственное "счастье" - блобы для 2.6.36.

[Александр Рыжов]

В деталях:

[22:56] <ryzhov_al> Hi, Eric.
[22:56] <ryzhov_al> So, you decided to drop MIPS devices support. Why?
[22:57] <@RMerlin> ryzhov_al: Not dropping MIPS support, just no longer gonna hold back ARM support for cases where MIPS can't follow
[22:57] <ryzhov_al> Some kind of "End of MIPS age in a favor of ARM"? Or just binary blobs getting out of sync?
[22:58] <@RMerlin> ryzhov_al: I didn't want to move ipset to 6.x because the MIPS kernel couldn't follow.
[22:58] <@RMerlin> With this change, I now will upgrade ARM's ipset, regardless of the fact that MIPS will have to stay on 4.x
[22:59] <ryzhov_al> I get it.
[22:59] <@RMerlin> So, I'm not dropping MIPS models, at least not until Asus does.
[23:00] <@RMerlin> ryzhov_al: I suspect that Asus will cut down on firmware releass for the N66/AC66 tho.
[23:00] <@RMerlin> Which means I won't be able to release updates as frequently for these models either, with the large amount of closed source code now in that.
[23:00] <ryzhov_al> Will see.
[23:00] <@RMerlin> I tried to see with Asus if they could find a way to make my job easier, but they can't.
[23:02] <@RMerlin> In fact, getting any support out of Asus is getting increasingly difficult these days.