Hello everyone, I purchased a R7500v2 thinking that since they did away with the quantenna part that the entire board should be under oss.
I have built operwrt trunk from scratch and built everything.
My final product has a firmware that is not compatible with the R7500v2 but only the R7500v1.

These are the two headers

this is my header for the
r7500-squashfs-factory.img
device:R7500
version:VOpenWrt.r48806
region:
hd_id:29764841+0+128+256+3x3+4x4
but the actual header file for my netgear is this
device:R7500v2
version:V1.0.2.2
region:
hd_id:29764958+0+128+512+3x3+4x4

I have read that a few people have already tried the trunk on this router, but I am not sure how they got the img to flash onto it.

I tried hexediting the hw_id on the header to possibly fool the router but there is apparently checksums embedded in the firmware somehwere.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,
I found a (almost) good patch for r7500v2 here
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/601351/

It works great, adding the r7500v2 to menuconfig etc, and the stock FW is ok with loading it.
Issue is that it does not support Wifi.
I don't know why this patch is not checked into the main trunk to get more experts help on the Wifi (at least the 2.4 should be same as R7500)