What is the current toolchain that is working for dd-wrt / tomato / ipkg or is it time to decide on something new for future use and migrate everything to a newer or standardized toolchain ?

openwrt is not even a option for normal user as it is too greek even for linux geeks and they don't support my router.

Kong seems to use 4.1.2 from ??? 

Tomato seems to use a 4.2.4 part of the git download tomato-rt branch and this has utimes -> utime issues. Maybe I have messed something up "r2e"  /  "r2m" .

Tomatousb -> How to compile Tomato Firmware

ipkg is built with toolchain ??? and 4 versions of python and I am sure this is not good.

Oleg has 4.4.6 and it seems to work for him. "google code webpage"

I have contacted mips linux kernel developers to see if they could help out somehow with the kernel and driver issues, they are investigating what they can do so maybe it is time for a newer kernel or more back porting or something ?

Same for broadcom and there no one is home. 

Would be much easier working of the linux mips kernel in github and branching it ie: 1000 people workign on 1 thing instead of 1000 people working on 100 things.

There should be 1 kernel opensource and then each one should have their own decorations be it dd-wrt / openwrt / tomato / oleg / asus / ???

Let me know opinions / advice and where what is heading.

I would ask on dd-wrt website forums but seems everyone there has stop releasing firmware so I presume dd-wrt website / project is dead ? or so it seems.