LZ77 firmware decompression for new Mikrotik devices #923
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This patch add LZ77 decompression for newer Mikrotik devices. People are seeing newly bought Mikrotik devices fail to boot AREDN because the wifi wont startup up. This is because Mikrotik is using a new compression scheme which OpenWRT doesnt yet support (so neither do we). Fortunately @SCWhite found a patch written by @john-tho which adds support for some new Mikrotik devices. I generalized it for all Mikrotik (which wasn't very hard) as we're seeing it in older and newer hardware.
The first attempt at this change cause a couple of us to have HAP ac3 devices fail after the upgrade. It remains unclear why that happened as I've been unable to reproduce it again. This version has been tested on my entire bench of devices (24 of various makes and ages) including a power cycle test. Everything is working as I write this.
Ref:
john-tho/openwrt#5
#919