OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY is an upcoming router board developed by OpenWrt and Banana Pi
OpenWrt builders have began the method to develop the “OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY” router board primarily based on MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) SoC and MediaTek MT7976C dual-band WiFi 6 chipset, and designed in collaboration with Banana Pi that may even deal with manufacturing and distribution of the router board.
As of the OpenWrt 23.05 release, near 1,800 routers and different units are formally supported by the light-weight embedded Linux working system, and lots of extra declare to be operating OpenWrt by way of a fork of the OS. However none of these are made by OpenWrt builders who’ve now determined to create their very own router board in collaboration with Banana Pi since they’ve performed such boards together with the BPI-R4 WiFi 7 router SBC.
OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY preliminary specs:
- SoC – MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) dual-core Cortex-A53 processor @ 1.3 GHz
- System Reminiscence – 1GB DDR4
- Storage
- 128 MB SPI NAND flash for U-boot and Linux
- 4 MB SPI NOR flash for write-protected (by default) restoration bootloader (reflashing will be enabled with a jumper)
- Two varieties of flash units are used to make the board nearly unbrickable
- M.2 2042 socket for NVMe SSD (PCIe gen 2 x1) – Observe: work-in-progress patch to make PCIe work contained in the U-Boot bootloader to permit booting Linux distributions corresponding to Debian and Alpine from the SSD.
- Networking
- 2.5GbE RJ45 port
- Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 port
- Twin-band WiFI 6 by way of MediaTek MT7976C (2×2 2.4 GHz + 3×3/2×2 + zero-wait DFS 5Ghz)
- 3x MMCX antenna connectors
- USB
- 1x USB 2.0 Kind-A bunch port
- USB Kind-C (machine, console) port utilizing Holtek HT42B534-2 UART to USB chip
- Growth – MikroBUS socket for enlargement modules
- Debugging – Console by way of USB-C port, 10-pin JTAG/SWD header for principal SoC
- Misc
- Reset and Person buttons
- Boot choose swap: NAND (common) or NOR (restoration)
- 2x PWM LEDs, 2x Ethernet LED (GPIO pushed)
- EM6324 Exterior {hardware} watchdog
- NXP PCF8563TS (I2C) RTC with battery backup holder for CR1220 coin-cell
- Energy Provide
- 12V USB-PD on USB-C port
- Optionally available 802.3at/af PoE by way of RT5040 module
- Dimensions – 148 x 100.5 mm suitable with Banana Pi BPI-R4 case design
- Certifications – FCC/EC/RoHS compliance
The router’s specs have been chosen with the aim of protecting the worth beneath $100, and that’s why now we have interfaces corresponding to USB 2.0 as an alternative of USB 3.0 since there aren’t any spare ones within the Filogic 820 SoC. The schematics might be publicly obtainable beneath an open-source license which has not been decided simply but, and as you would possibly count on GPL compliance might be revered with “a whole machine-readable copy of the corresponding supply code”.
OpenWrt builders chosen Banana Pi as a result of their present boards have options carefully matching what they’ve been wanting for a number of years, the corporate has grow to be extra standard with the OpenWrt neighborhood in recent times, and loads of options are already supported in upstream/mainline U-Boot and Linux. The non-open-source elements embrace the two.5GbE PHY and WiFi firmware with blobs operating on separate cores which might be impartial of the primary SoC the place OpenWrt is operating. The DRAM calibration routines are closed-source binaries as effectively.
The OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY router ought to present a supply of earnings for the venture, for instance, to cowl the price of internet hosting and OpenWrt conferences, with Banana Pi promoting the board by way of their distribution community, and for each machine offered, donating to the Software program Freedom Conservancy (SDC) with the funds earmarked for OpenWrt. The OpenWrt router board ought to be launched in 2024, however there’s no rETA for the venture. Extra particulars could also be present in the announcement.
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