I used to think embedded systems (software) engineers were the be-all-and-end-all until I started looking into how my router worked (or didn't work - dhcpd had crashed).

How can you take Buildroot [1] and break it so badly? A mishmash of Broadcom SDK and ODM Makefiles that will only compile on RHEL5 on a Tuesday [2].

1: https://buildroot.org/

2: https://dlink-gpl.s3.amazonaws.com/GPL1500418/DIR890A1_GPL10... - ~450MB compressed / 1.2GB uncompressed.