> So you couldn't spare around 1Mb of compressed flash or 2Mb of uncompressed flash for systemd?
Absolutely not.
> That hasn't been the case in quite some while
These routers and APs still exist and are in use. Yes, they are 10+ years old, but they're still out there. One of the main goals of OpenWRT is to support legacy networking hardware that vendors abandoned.
Absolutely not.
> That hasn't been the case in quite some while
These routers and APs still exist and are in use. Yes, they are 10+ years old, but they're still out there. One of the main goals of OpenWRT is to support legacy networking hardware that vendors abandoned.