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diff --git a/target/linux/generic-2.4/README b/target/linux/generic-2.4/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..15d95232d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/target/linux/generic-2.4/README @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +Description of kernel patches: + + +generic/ + Generic patches for vanilla Linux kernel + +000-linux_mips.patch + This is the diff between vanilla linux-2.4.32 and linux-mips.org kernel + (CVS tag 2_4_32-rc1 used). The kernel source from linux-mips.org CVS repository has + newer drivers and code then vanilla linux-2.4.32 especially for the mips architecture. + +001-squashfs.patch + Support for the squashfs filesystem. It has better compression ratio then cramfs. + +002-squashfs_lzma.patch + LZMA Addon patch from Oleg I. Vdovikin for the squashfs filesystem. + Even better compression ratio. + +003-jffs2_compression.patch + Compression for jffs2 filesystem. + +004-exec_pagesize.patch + +005-mtd_flashtypes.patch + Additional mtd drivers for flash chips + +100-ebtables.patch + Filtering packets on ethernet layer. See http://ebtables.sf.net + +101-netfilter_ipp2p.patch + Netfilter ipp2p match module (matches traffic of most P2P networks) + +102-netfilter_layer7.patch + +103-netfilter_nat_pptp.patch + NAT support for PPTP and GRE + +104-netfilter_maxconn.patch + +105-netfilter_TTL.patch + Netfilter target for manipulating the TTL of IP packets + +106-mppe_mppc.patch + Microsoft PPP Encryption/Compression + +107-cifs.patch + CIFS (Common Internet File System) module. + +108-optional_aout_support.patch + +109-ipsec_nat_traversal.patch + Openswan patch for allowing IPSec through NAT + +110-netdev_random_core.patch + Support for gathering entropy from network devices for /dev/random + +200-i4l.patch + +201-hfc_usb_backport.patch + +202-pl2303_backport.patch + +203-hfsplus_fix.patch + +204-net_b44.patch + Support for the BCM47xx chipset in the b44 driver + +206-gcc_3.4_fixes.patch + mips specific gcc 3.4 fixes + +207-gcc_4.0_fixes.patch + gcc 4.0 fixes + + +brcm/ + Broadcom specific patches + +001-bcm47xx.patch + This is the broadcom specific code from asus (1941) GPL source tarball. + There are many small patches included, so it works with linux 2.4.32 kernel. + The original code is based on Linux 2.4.20. + +002-wl_fix.patch + The driver for the wireless lan chip on brcm47xx based routers is binary only. + This means it depends on older data structures in the kernel. We backported some + of the changes or changed some of the data structures to work with the binary modul. + This is a really bad hack, but without source code, there is no better chance to get + the driver working with newer kernels. + +003-bcm47xx_cache_fixes.patch + + +ar7/ + TI AR7 specific patches + +000-ar7_support.patch + +001-flash_map.patch |