Pure OpenWrt on MOX

Redyellow · April 3, 2020, 12:58pm

As I have noticed that my memory usage is really high on my MOX classic I was wondering if it is possible to run a pure openwrt without Foris on MOX hardware.

Has anyone tried this?
What would be the limitations?

anon50890781 · April 3, 2020, 2:06pm

Until then (re)Foris is removable from TOS if that is the aim.

Redyellow · April 3, 2020, 2:52pm

Ok thx. How can it be removed?

anon50890781 · April 3, 2020, 3:21pm

Like most other packages

LuCI
cli opkg remove
updater-ng LUA commands (as outlined in the documentation)

removal of (re)/Foris will logically remove certain TOS specific functionality that may not be entirely replicable with other tools from OpenWrt
removal of (re)/Foris may also remove packages that are otherwise required for other than TOS specific functionality
removal is not straight forward and a wee bit complex due to dependencies tied in with (re)/Foris and for that reason the aforementioned third option might be the best way to go about
make sure that schnapps is working and you are familiar with it in case things go sideways
in short - know what you are doing

Redyellow · April 3, 2020, 4:45pm

Is this pasted from official docs.tuirrs.cz?

I cannot find this. Can you copy the link?

anon50890781 · April 3, 2020, 5:29pm

^[1] https://doc.turris.cz/doc/en/howto/updater

Redyellow · April 3, 2020, 5:37pm

1] Turris Documentation

This is the link to the updater but not to removing foris.
At least I dońt see it there but maybe all that staying at home has had an effect on my vision, too?

anon50890781 · April 3, 2020, 5:46pm

There is no documentation about the removal of (re)Foris from TOS, understandably.

Redyellow · April 4, 2020, 6:34am

True. That makes sense. Have you succefully removed re(Foris)?

anon50890781 · April 4, 2020, 8:16am

Yes, albeit on a TO device. However, I am not going to populate step-by-step guide considering that someone not heeding the aforementioned and ending up with the device in an undesired state and then seeking support for it.

ssdnvv · April 4, 2020, 8:41am

Those ones could be directly pointed to the wiki, it is clearly documented how to copy complete TOS on SD-card. So if really everything fails, one can easily start from scratch setting up MOX.

anon50890781 · April 4, 2020, 9:49am

case in point.

Suggestions:

wait for OpenWrt to bring kernel 5.4 to the mvebu target class and thus subsequent support MOX in OpenWrt
wait for the TOS developers to complete the transition from Foris to reForis and see then whether it alleviates whatever the current issues are with Foris
ask the TOS developers for an official guide to safely remove re/Foris