jon.grossart:

It seems that devices ported to the new image building system in LEDE aren't working correctly. Specifically, packages specified by the DEVICE_PACKAGES variable aren't being included in the LEDE provided images.

For example, for the ipq806x targets, they are all defaulting to having the QCA988X firmware and not the correct firmware, regardless of the setting in the image/Makefile to use a specific ath10k firmware for each device. This was verified for the C2600, EA8500, R7500, and R7800 (some for both factory and sysupgrade images).

Searching through the makefiles on github, there appears to be no instance of the variable DEVICE_PACKAGES being used in any context other than for the "dump info" targets.

Without that variable being used, there would actually be a large number of targets being broken in their default images (anything converted over to the new image builder system). It seems it would affect all the ar71xx, brcm2708, brcm63xx, imx6, ipq806x, lantiq, oxnas, and ramips systems.