Chaos Calmer RC1

[Lantis]

For those that don't keep up with openwrt development.

Chaos Calmer just went RC1.


** Highlights since Barrier Breaker **
* Linux kernel updated to version 3.18
* Improved Security Features
- Rewritten package signing architecture based on ed25519
- Added support for jails
- Added support for hardened builds
* Improved Networking Support
- Added or improved support for lots of 3G/4G modems (MBIM, QMI, NCM, ...)
- Added support for 464XLAT (CLAT)
- Improved support for self-managing networks (draft-ietf-homenet-hncp)
- Netfilter performance enhancements (conntrack route cache)
- Better multi-core support for the network stack
- Improved support for MAP-E and MAP-T IPv4 transitioning technologies
- Improved network auto-setup capable of detecting and bootstrapping IPv4-only,
6rd, Dual-Stack, IPv6-only, DS-Lite, LW4over6, MAP-E, MAP-T, 464XLAT
and combinations without explicit configuration
- Added support for Smart Queue Management (SQM) QoS, AQM and Traffic Shaping
- Improved support for DNSSEC
* Platform and Driver Support
- Added support for feeds of externally maintained targets
- New mt7621 subtarget for Mediatek 11ac SoC
- New mt76 mac80211 based wifi driver for MTK 11ac cores.
- New mwlwifi mac80211 based wifi driver for the Marvell 88W8864
- New bcm53xx target for Broadcom ARM BCM47xx/53xx devices
- brcm2708: support for Raspberry Pi 2
- brcm63xx: support for BCM6318 and BCM63268 family
- brcm63xx: improved fallback sprom support with bcma support
* Known Issues
- libusb-1.0 is currently not installable (#19668). This is already fixed in svn. This can be
manually fixed by applying the changes from r45702 by hand.
- the targets feed is part of opkg.conf, and will produce warnings. It is save to remove
from /etc/opkg.conf.

[marrco]

Thanks for the info, i'm testing it now.

[Rog66]

Given the throttling issue with BB based Gargoyle is there any chance of getting a version built on CC RC1? I have had to revert to OpenWRT to get the full benefit of my 152 mb connection and I have to say the connection as a whole is much faster than with Gargoyle 1.7.1 - shame as I love the features of Gargoyle.

[Lantis]

The fix for that was back ported to gargoyle a few weeks ago.
It won't be as fast as openwrt because a lot of the functionality does slow it down a little, but it did improve the problem.

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb/vi ... =14&t=7142

[Rog66]

Nope - I just tried this and it still cripples the connection to <100 Mb - the last thing I read bout this in the forums said that it hadn't been backported to BB so couldn't be backported to a BB gargoyle version.

[Lantis]

Did you try the version I linked?

I'm telling you that it was back ported.

It is also noted that some of the functionality of gargoyle does tax the connection a bit. Some users neutered parts of the functionality and achieved increased maximum speeds. But that begs the question of why you are using gargoyle at that point.

[Rog66]

Well it doesn't improve anything - it was the version you linked but it crippled my link from 155 down to 90 - exactly the same speed as with the previous gargoyle version.

[Lantis]

Well I guess you'll have to wait.
The patch is the same as what is included in chaos calmer so there may be minimal improvement. Who's to know.


By the way i don't speak for any developers nor am I one. I'm just commenting based on historical evidence.

[ispyisail]

Well it doesn't improve anything - it was the version you linked but it crippled my link from 155 down to 90 - exactly the same speed as with the previous gargoyle version.

On what router?

[Rog66]

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