Posted by Grommish on Feb 01, 2021; 9:14am
URL: https://itus.accessinnov.com/FIRMWARE-Itus-Shield-v2-tp2014p2175.html

Hey anyone who still receives reply notifications! :)

I'm calling a halt to base OpenWrt development for the Shield.  The only reason I had a separate repo for OpenWrt source was to maintain the Bridge and Gateway modes, and to test to see if setting the Kernel arch to Octeon3 vs Octeonplus produced any increase in performance.

It did not increase performance, and frankly, if anyone NEEDS the other slots, they can hit me up.

The device is officially supported by OpenWrt now.  It already receives "Snapshot" images builds in the development branch and will receive "Official" images when the next major release (20/21.xx) drops.

What does this mean to you?

First, you should move to the Snapshot images if you already haven't.  This includes folks who are on my development images.  I do NOT know if running the sysupgrade file will update the system or not.  Since the arch is different (Octeon3 vs Octeonplus), it may not.

If it does NOT allow a direct upgrade, all you need to do is download the itus_shield-router-initramfs-kernel.bin and put in /dev/mmcblk1p1 as ItusrouterImage, reboot, then run the upgrade.

Please be aware that, by default, LuCI is NOT installed..  Once you install and run the sysupgrade, you can use opkg to install LuCI.  The ability to use opkg is one of the advantages of using the SnapShot builds.

If you need any HELP with this, please let me know.