Linksys WRT54G Wireless Router (MIPS)

[Smith, Gene SEA]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karel Gardas  
> 
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Smith, Gene SEA wrote:
> 
> > This is just a quick check to ask if any of the RTEMS BSPs for MIPS
> > might be compatible with the 200 MHz MIPS processor on the WRT54G
> > wireless router? I am not real familiar with the variation 
> on MIPS. All
> > I have found is that the one in the WRT54G is little endian 
> and possibly
> > made by Broadcom.
> >
> > Older versions of the WRT54G contained a hackable version 
> of Linux but
> > Linksys has halved the memory in the latest h/w version and is now
> > running Vxworks and is probably now unable to run linux. 
> Possibly end
> > users could replace the Vxworks with RTEMS fairly easily 
> using a MIPS
> > bsp?
> 
> FYI: Linksys adds WRT54G_L_ which is the same hardware like 
> old WRT54G to 
> its product map. See:
> http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS4729641740.html
> 
> For more information about various revisions of WRT54G itself, please 
> read:
> http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=6
> 
> Cheers,
> Karel
> --
> Karel Gardas                  kgardas at objectsecurity.com
> ObjectSecurity Ltd.           http://www.objectsecurity.com
> 

Right. Thought of that after I wrote. However there is speculation that
the "L" version might be short lived and it is also more expensive than
the standard unit.

-gene