Hardware
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SOC: MediaTek MT7988A (4x Cortex-A73)
RAM: 4 GiB DDR4
Flash: 128 MiB Winbond SPI-NAND
MMC: 8 GiB eMMC *or* microSD (cannot be used both)
ETH: 4x 1GE (1x WAN, 3x LAN)
2x SFP+ (10G, 5G, 2.5G, 1G)
USB: on-board USB 3.2 4-port hub
1x USB 3.2 port (type A connector)
1x M.2 for 4G/5G modem
2x mPCIe for additional modems
WiFi: optional MediaTek MT7996 Wi-Fi 7 module
(using 2x PCIe gen3 x2 on the mPCIe slots and 12V power)
Installation
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1. Decompress and write the sdcard image to a micro SD card and use that
to boot the R4 (both dip switches in upper position).
2. Use the bootloader menu accessible via the serial console to install
to SPI-NAND.
3. Switch to boot from SPI-NAND and install to eMMC.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
The Bananapi BPi-R3 is a development router board built around the
MediaTek Filogic 830 (MT7986A) SoC.
The board can boot either from microSD, SPI-NAND, SPI-NOR or eMMC.
Only either SPI-NAND or SPI-NOR can be used at the same time, also only
either microSD or eMMC can be used. The various storage options can be
selected using small SMD switches on the board.
Specs:
* MediaTek MT7986A (Filogic 830) 4x ARM Cortex A53
* 4T4R 2.4G 802.11bgnax (MT7975N)
* 4T4R 5G 802.11anac/ax (MT7975P)
* 2 GB DDR4 RAM
* 8 GB eMMC
* 128 MB SPI-NAND flash
* 32 MB SPI-NOR flash
* on-board MT7531 GbE switch
* 2x SFP+ (1 GbE / 2.5 GbE)
* 5x GbE network port
* miniPCIe slot (only USB 2.0 connected)
* uSIM slot (connected to miniPCIe interface)
* M.2 KEY-E PCIe interface (PCIe x2)
* microSD card interface
* 26 PIN GPIO
Hardware details: https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R3
Working:
* all 4 boot methods incl. installation via U-Boot, sysupgrade, ...
* copper LAN and WAN ports
* SFP1 (connected to gmac1, eth1 in Linux)
* WiFi
* LEDs
* Buttons
* PSTORE/ramoops based dual-boot
Not Working (missing driver features):
* SFP2 (connected to MT7531 switch)
Untested:
* M.2/NGFF slot (PCIe x2)
* mPCIe slot (USB 2.0 + SIM)
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
[mac80211]
ca5ee6e mac80211: Fix potential endless loop
2c14710 mac80211: add more AQL fixes/improvements
91fb3ce mac80211: remove an obsolete patch that is no longer doing anything useful
acf1733 mac80211: add preliminary support for enabling 802.11ax in config
d717343 mac80211: update encap offload patches to the latest version
673062f mac80211: allow bigger A-MSDU sizes in VHT, even if HT is limited
caf7277 mac80211: do not allow bigger VHT MPDUs than the hardware supports
cd36c0d mac80211: select the first available channel for 5GHz interfaces
1c6d456 mac80211: fix regression in station connection monitor optimization
4bd7689 mac80211: update sta connection monitor regression fix
[target]
Sync: at91, ath25, ath79, lantiq, mediatek, mvebu.
kernel: bump to 4.14.193, 4.19.138, 5.4.59 (#5350)
431fb8c mac80211: add AQL improvements
6bdd4c9 mac80211: add missing backports for building with 4.14 kernels
0106820 mac80211: add missing return code checks in AQL improvements
e7f7101 mac80211: rework encapsulation offload support
[package]
base-files: add function for generating random MAC
dnsmasq: abort dhcp_check on interface state
boot: sync upstream source code
ath10k-ct-firmware/mt76/sch_cake: update to latest git HEAD
[script]
download: add China Mirror Station
[target]
Sync: arc770, ath79, bcm63xx, kirkwood, lantiq, layerscape,
mediatek, mvebu, octeon, oxnas, pistachio, uml
Sync most of the target patches.
Run-compiled-on: ipq40xx (4.19 & 5.4), ramips
