ipq40xx-chromium: add support for Google WiFi (Gale) #2885
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My goal is to have this device in the current gluon master, hence in the Gluon-Release we do before/when OpenWrt 23.xx lands.
This PR obviously can not be merged as is.
I started an effort to backport the ten included patches in OpenWrt, which won't be as easy as I assumed. Though the suggested changes are as isolated as they can be and do not affect other devices let alone targets, adding them in OpenWrt would cost several hours and time of different OpenWrt maintainers.
Adding a new target in OpenWrt's stable is a thing that can be done, but is currently troublesome, due to some signatures that became invalid on OpenWrts side.
Furthermore different maintainers would be involved, whose time would be better spent in upcoming releases than in troublesome backports.
Maintaining the included ten commits downstream should be trivial, as they mostly affect the
chromium
-subtarget introduced in them which does not exist in OpenWrt's stable yet.If we'd agree to have them downstream, I'd volunteer to maintain them.
Maybe @NeoRaider has a favored approach, @blocktrron was against doing this upstream, as long as he's involved, if not at all.
I'd be fine with either solution, but would like to see this device in gluon, as it has a decent dual-band ac performance and looks nice.
note: once @ctandi commences testing the patches, I'll squash this PR accordingly.