> glinet ship their own builds of a forked openwrt
Imma let you finish, but you've always been able to install vanilla OpenWrt on GL.iNet devices. I've been doing this for years across most models. Actually there are only a couple of recent GL.iNet routers that I don't own.
Have you been able to produce a working 21.02 image (or 19.x with critical security patches, for that matter) for the E750? I'd seriously love to pool resources on this.
My rant above comes from multiple days of struggling to get a working build that doesn't have stability issues not present in the official image.
Like I mentioned, I don't recall any surprises with the MT1300 that couldn't be worked around.
I don't own one of them so I haven't looked into it sorry. However there is usually an owrt forum thread for a device or a platform which goes into details. If you haven't asked on there, I encourage you to. They're usually pretty friendly and helpful, especially to people who try themselves and ask good detailed questions.
I know you're probably trying to be helpful (and still might be helpful for others) but If it wasn't obvious from my original thread I've already read every single comment mentioning this device several times.
That community repo is a fork of the GL.iNet build infrastructure repo, just with less definitions that allow compilation to succeed.
My understanding is that infrastructure fetches the official owrt sources and applies the patches listed in the yaml files, but I didn't audit the entire build system in 15 minutes :P
Imma let you finish, but you've always been able to install vanilla OpenWrt on GL.iNet devices. I've been doing this for years across most models. Actually there are only a couple of recent GL.iNet routers that I don't own.