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Don’t buy an RTL8196E device expecting OpenWrt. If you already own one, consider it a legacy device best kept on stock firmware – or recycle it.
Based on my experience, I would recommend the RTL8196E on OpenWRT to users who:
The SoC uses a modified MIPS-1 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) via Lexra. This "reduced" MIPS ISA lacks certain standard instructions (unaligned loads/stores), which makes standard Linux kernels and toolchains incompatible without specific patches. OpenWrt Support Status
Don’t buy an RTL8196E device expecting OpenWrt. If you already own one, consider it a legacy device best kept on stock firmware – or recycle it.
Based on my experience, I would recommend the RTL8196E on OpenWRT to users who:
The SoC uses a modified MIPS-1 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) via Lexra. This "reduced" MIPS ISA lacks certain standard instructions (unaligned loads/stores), which makes standard Linux kernels and toolchains incompatible without specific patches. OpenWrt Support Status
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