[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH RFC] ath79: add support for the ar7240 version of the ubiquiti bullet

[Russell Senior]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 5:19 AM Adrian Schmutzler <mail at adrianschmutzler.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: openwrt-devel [mailto:openwrt-devel-bounces at lists.openwrt.org] On
> > Behalf Of Russell Senior
> > Sent: Mittwoch, 26. Februar 2020 11:20
> > To: openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
> > Subject: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH RFC] ath79: add support for the ar7240
> version
> > of the ubiquiti bullet
> >
> >
> > The Ubiquiti Bullet M2HP come in two flavors, based on ar7240 and
> > ar7241. Both are supported by ar71xx, despite the different SoCs. The
> > ath79 target, however, currently supports only the ar7241. The ar7240
> > version apparently has a differently wired ethernet interface and the
> > ar7241-based image comes up on the ar7240-based versions without a
> > working ethernet interface.
> >
> > This is an attempt to support both flavors of ubnt-bullet-m,
> > separately. Some of the choices I made may be considered dubious and/or
> > harmful.
>
> Interesting. Do you have any indications whether this will also affect the
> Loco
> M and Picostation XM devices?
>

I have some Loco's deployed (all of them are AR7241) but no picostations,
so I don't know about the latter.


>
> What's the base for the v0/v1 distinction? Is that visible to the user
> somehow?
> I fear that meaningful naming will be the biggest problem here...
>

v0 and v1 mostly come from the need to distinguish between them. You could
think of the digit as the least significant digit of the SoC. We could make
them -7240 and -7241 instead of -v0 and -v1 to be slightly clearer what the
names mean, but that seemed ugly. And, no, as far as I know, the SoC is not
indicated on the exterior of the device at all. The user will have to
figure out the right version to use somehow.


>
> Best
>
> Adrian
>
>
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