OpenWrt One - celebrating 20 years of OpenWrt

[Janusz Dziedzic]

wt., 9 sty 2024 o 11:54 John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> napisał(a):
>
> tl;dr
>
> In 2024 the OpenWrt project turns 20 years! Let's celebrate this
> anniversary by launching our own first and fully upstream supported
> hardware design.
>
> If the community likes the idea outlined below in greater details, we
> would like to start a vote.
>
> ---
>
> The idea
>
> It is not new. We first spoke about this during the OpenWrt Summits in
> 2017 and also 2018. It became clear start of December 2023 while
> tinkering with Banana Pi style devices that they are already pretty
> close to what we wanted to achieve in ’17/‘18. Banana PIs have grown in
> popularity within the community. They boot using a self compiled Trusted
> Firmware-A (TF-A)and upstream U-Boot (thx MTK/Daniel) and some of the
> boards are already fully supported by the upstream Linux kernel. The
> only nonopen sourcecomponents are the 2.5 GbE PHYandWi-Fi firmware
> blobsrunning on separate cores that areindependent of the main SoC
> running Linuxand the DRAM calibration routines which are executed early
> during boot.
>
> I contacted three project members (pepe2k, dangole, nbd) on December 6th
> to outline the overall idea. We went over several design proposals, At
> the beginning we focused on the most powerful (and expensive)
> configurations possible but finally ended up with something rather
> simple and above all,feasible. We would like to propose the following as
> our "first" community driven HW platform called "OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY".
>
> Together with pepe2k (thx a lot) I discussed this for many hours and we
> worked out the following project proposal. Instead of going insane with
> specifications, we decided to include some nice features we believe all
> OpenWrt supported platforms should have (e.g. being almost
> unbrickablewith multiple recovery options, hassle-free system console
> access, on-board RTC with battery backup etc.).
>
> This is our first design, so let's KiSS!
>
>
> Hardwarespecifications:
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> * SOC: MediaTek MT7981B
> * Wi-Fi: MediaTek MT7976C (2x2 2.4 GHz + 3x3/2x2 + zero-wait DFS 5Ghz)

Why not 6GHz?

BR


Janusz