You mean creating a image with custom configuration?
If you managed to get the build environment working you need to create a folder called files inside the root directory of the build tools and there you can mirror a copy of /etc/config like files/etc/config but you have to be sure these are stable because it will be written to /rom/ to in the image with other words resets will put these files back.
For mt76 patches you can download them to package/kernel/mt76/patches and if you want to test a pull request as a patch just write .patch in the web address in the end and then download it.
Though setting up build tools alone can be difficult the build tools dependencies described on the readme are not all the dependencies, this is really try and error with logging, also you need gcc12 and g++12 but the current wsl ubuntu does not have it, you have to add a newer ubuntu apt repo inside the sources list and then fix both gcc and g++ by using a symlink, or use a vm with a more up to date ubuntu.
Though maybe gcc12 and g++12 are no longer a requirement, but i’m not sure about that since i noticed commits for the build bot to allow it, but compiling with these higher versions of gcc and g++ seem to increase performance on the cpu of the router somehow👍
with make menuconfig you can enter a menu where you can set pre installed packages, you probably also want to install all feeds before that or the packages are not visible do so on each git pull you do: ./scripts/feeds update -a./scripts/feeds install -a and then use make menuconfig so it knows the feeds are updated.
Here is also a wiki from openwrt for setting up build tools:
Power on 5ghz tops out at 20dbm in regulatory area where it should be 23dbm (UK). Changing it to another similar regulatory area results in the same limit. 2.4ghz band already set as UK as well.
SQM seems to work better with the current drivers in 4.5.8 rel 4 compared to 4.5.6 (open source) at least on my experience. I almost cannot use the SQM in 4.5.6 since I can only see latency changes if the speed was set to around 80-50mbps in download. However, 4.5.8 already shows decent latency improvement by just reducing 15% of my download speed. However, I am not 100% sure that the improvement was indeed caused by the proprietary drivers but my setup is pretty much the same when I was still driving 4.5.6. (Modem RM520N-GL with M.2 to 2.5Gb ETH board connected to Flint 2 via ETH WAN)
I can get the same results with OpenWRT on kernel 6.1 and kernel 6.6.
Additionally, it appears there has been an update that changes the way packages are targeted in the latest OpenWRT snapshot, which should bring improvements to SQM: git.openwrt.org Git - openwrt/openwrt.git/commit
Another important piece of information is that support for kernel 5.15, the same one used in GL.inet firmwares, is being abandoned and continuing to use it could cause security problems in the long term: pistachio: remove 5.15 support · openwrt/openwrt@12137cb · GitHub
Im still waiting for their Openwrt 23 release so I dont really have a choice right now. I don’t want to also abandon the GL inet GUI since Im using some of their features thats not present / too complex to setup, on vanilla Openwrt. Im just hoping that they will choose the best vanilla Openwrt release for their 4.5.8 counterpart.
I wish they had optimized the SMB Server since that’s something really I use, I can’t even transfer a 10GB file from Windows most of the time, it is unstable and a bit unreliable. Seems like we need to wait a long time for it
I dont know why they are even bothering with 21.xx, nothing seems to be improving and its pretty much dead everywhere else, they should just concentrate on 23.xx and newer.
Upgraded from 4.5.6 to 4.5.8 24 hours ago and my WiFi is finally stable on both bands, but luci-app-statistics doesn’t work anymore, neither does channel scan as described above.
Since when they changed to 21.02 I got 0/0 ranking in sqm, I always put 80% of my speed, both down and up and I never had bufferbloat problems, in fact even with hw activated there is little bufferbloat.
