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Linksys does not make Open Source Hardware.

Also, it ships with their proprietary "Smart Wi-Fi", not OpenWRT.

> While the Linksys WRT1200AC provides an outstanding experience via Smart Wi-Fi immediately out of the box, advanced users can further modify the router with open source firmware. Developed for use with OpenWRT, an open source Linux-based... [0]

No one, to my knowledge, makes the appropriate Gigabit Ethernet (ideally Dual Gigabit Ethernet) + Wifi Open-Source Hardware SBC that could be used as a router. There are a lot of SBCs with open-source software and mostly-accurate PDFs of their schematics, but very few (the Olimex OLinuXino project, maybe?) that are actually open hardware.

I do understand that truly open-source hardware is a tough sell, as Jay pointed out in his amazing piece "So you want to build an Embedded Linux system" [1]

> People forget that these EVKs are built at substantially higher volumes than prototype hardware is; I often have to explain to inexperienced project managers why it’s going to cost nearly $4000 [2] to manufacture 5 prototypes of something you can buy for $56 [3] each.

And an EVK is likely built at a lower volume than a consumer SBC. The idea that someone can download your hardware design, modify it, and respin it for their desired open-source router but now with a piezo buzzer added might work for Arduino-scale hardware projects but simply isn't reasonable for something that reaches the performance required of a router.

[0]: https://www.linksys.com/ca/wireless-routers/wrt-wireless-rou...

[1]: https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/#

[2]: https://circuithub.com/projects/jaycarlson/BEAGLEBONE_BLACK/...

[3]: https://www.newark.com/beagleboard/bbone-black-4g/beaglebone...



I apologize I misread OP's question. I incorrectly interpreted it as "hardware that supports opensource firmware such as DD-WRT/Tomato".

In terms of hardware like you mentioned there's few open source SBC's at all. Even fairly open hardware like the raspberry pi have a proprietary firmware blob. I guess it will come down to how strictly you define "open source". If you define it as "we have firmware/schematics for every chip on the board" then we'll likely never have that (I don't think even Linksys has that type of access).




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