TP-LINK TL-WDR4900 v1 is a very interesting Wi-Fi router (router). Instead of the typical MIPS or ARM processors in conventional Wi-Fi routers, the WDR4900 is equipped with a PowerPC-based processor from NXP. This allowed enthusiasts to run an (almost) full GTA: Vice City game on it.
The NXP/Freescale QorIQ P1014 used in the WDR4900 is a 32-bit PowerPC e500v2 processor. These processors offer a full 36-bit address space, high performance (for a router released in 2013) and feature PCIe controllers, Kittenlabs reports.
They quickly gained popularity in the OpenWrt and Freifunk communities for being cheap routers with high CPU performance. Both 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi chipsets (manufactured by Qualcomm/Atheros) connect to the CPU via PCIe.
reVC (a reengineered version of GTA Vice City, the source code of which is in the public domain) was compiled for the platform. This required custom builds of premake, glfw3, glew and reVC itself.
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