The manufacturer pays the license fees to ensure all drivers are upstreamed to kernel.org before the router ships. That is nearly unheard of in 2025.
: Enabling 6 GHz in the U.S. may require a specific patch to comply with or bypass regional locks in the firmware. w1700k openwrt exclusive
: Pull requests for the airoha target have been merged into the main OpenWrt branch (kernel 6.6). The manufacturer pays the license fees to ensure