The Gemtek W1700K routes the USXGMII lanes between the AN7581 and its RTL8261CE inverted and describes that in the device tree, but nothing in the RTL8261C/D driver reads tx-polarity/rx-polarity and the Airoha PCS has no polarity handling of its own. The copper side negotiates normally while the SerDes never trains and the netdev stays NO-CARRIER. Add a read and a read-modify-write helper for the VEND1 SerDes command window and program the lane polarity from rtl8261x_config_init(). Submitted upstream as part of a series documenting the RTL8261C/D device tree bindings and adding SerDes lane polarity and LED support. Apply it ahead of the out-of-tree 742-net-phy-realtek-add-5G-and-10G-PHY-support.patch so it can be carried exactly as submitted. 742 drops its own select PHY_COMMON_PROPS and its phy-common-props.h include, as both come from here now. Once accepted upstream this patch only moves to backports, so they stay dropped. Refresh out-of-tree patches in realtek target. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 Signed-off-by: Simon Polack <spolack+git@mailbox.org> Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/25092 Signed-off-by: Jonas Jelonek <jonas@jonasjelonek.de>
OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
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Download
Built firmware images are available for many architectures and come with a package selection to be used as WiFi home router. To quickly find a factory image usable to migrate from a vendor stock firmware to OpenWrt, try the Firmware Selector.
If your device is supported, please follow the Info link to see install instructions or consult the support resources listed below.
An advanced user may require additional or specific package. (Toolchain, SDK, ...) For everything else than simple firmware download, try the wiki download page:
Development
To build your own firmware you need a GNU/Linux, BSD or macOS system (case sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin is unsupported because of the lack of a case sensitive file system.
Requirements
You need the following tools to compile OpenWrt, the package names vary between distributions. A complete list with distribution specific packages is found in the Build System Setup documentation.
binutils bzip2 diff find flex gawk gcc-6+ getopt grep install libc-dev libz-dev
make4.1+ perl python3.8+ rsync subversion unzip which
Quickstart
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Run
./scripts/feeds update -ato obtain all the latest package definitions defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default -
Run
./scripts/feeds install -ato install symlinks for all obtained packages into package/feeds/ -
Run
make menuconfigto select your preferred configuration for the toolchain, target system & firmware packages. -
Run
maketo build your firmware. This will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain and then cross-compile the GNU/Linux kernel & all chosen applications for your target system.
Related Repositories
The main repository uses multiple sub-repositories to manage packages of
different categories. All packages are installed via the OpenWrt package
manager called opkg. If you're looking to develop the web interface or port
packages to OpenWrt, please find the fitting repository below.
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LuCI Web Interface: Modern and modular interface to control the device via a web browser.
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OpenWrt Packages: Community repository of ported packages.
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OpenWrt Routing: Packages specifically focused on (mesh) routing.
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OpenWrt Video: Packages specifically focused on display servers and clients (Xorg and Wayland).
Support Information
For a list of supported devices see the OpenWrt Hardware Database
Documentation
Support Community
- Forum: For usage, projects, discussions and hardware advise.
- Support Chat: Channel
#openwrton oftc.net.
Developer Community
- Bug Reports: Report bugs in OpenWrt
- Dev Mailing List: Send patches
- Dev Chat: Channel
#openwrt-develon oftc.net.
License
OpenWrt is licensed under GPL-2.0
