<div dir="ltr"><div>Sounds like a nice board ...<br></div><div><br></div><div>The issue with these 3rd party boards that compete with the RaspberryPI is that</div><div>the software is usually flaky and never gets updated.</div><div><br></div><div>The article echos that sentiment:</div><div><br></div><div>"Software-wise the company offers a Linux 4.4 BSP which <b>has not been
updated <br></b></div><div><b>in 8 months</b>, but the board is apparently supported by mainline
OpenWrt using <br></div><div>Linux 4.14 or 4.19. The company also provides Ubuntu
Server 16.04 LTS, Debian <br></div><div>10 Buster Lite, and “AArch64 Linux Lite”
images that are allegedly all based on <br></div><div>Linux 4.19, making it clear the
<b>Linux BSP is completely useless</b>…"</div><div><br></div><div>Even though they provide Ubuntu and Debian, I doubt they will update them ...</div><div><br></div><div>And although they say OpenWRT has support for it, they link to the github mirror. <br></div><div>But there is no ready binary listed here. There is mt7623, but not mt7622.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_fwdownload?dataflt%5B0%5D=supported%20current%20rel_%3D18.06.4">https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_fwdownload?dataflt%5B0%5D=supported%20current%20rel_%3D18.06.4</a></div><div><br></div><div>Here there are a few Banana Pi, but not this model:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://openwrt.org/toh/start">https://openwrt.org/toh/start</a></div><div><br></div><div>Sigh ... <br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:03 PM CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>for the openWRT hackers in the group... <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/08/27/banana-pi-bpi-r64-linux-router-board/" target="_blank">https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/08/27/banana-pi-bpi-r64-linux-router-board/</a></div><div><br></div><div>might be an interesting idea next time I blow up a router and need a new one... getting tired of buying those overpriced proprietary routers only to find that they don't do all that I want... with this SBC router you can load openWRT and hack to your heart's delight... or so I hear!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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