Target bananapi_bpi-r4-common

[Philip Prindeville]

Should the BPi-R4 be more richly provisioned?  It's got 4 or 8GB of DRAM so it's hardly a "skinny" platform.

Also, why are two different targets required for the same hardware?  I get that the "10G SFP WAN" and "2.5G/10G WAN" ports are combo so that only one PHY can be in use at a time, but why can't a single target support both and just detect which is connected?

Do we want to auto-select more packages like (say) mwan3 for instance?  I think we have enough memory that we could include it and if it's not used it's not the end of the world.

I'd include:

lldpd
curl
6in4 (or 6to4 or both?)
avahi
collectd
firewall3 (or firewall4)
hwclock
iftop
ip-full
iptasn & iptgeoip
ntp*
snmp
*swan
xfrm
zoneinfo

But that's me.  I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Are there other BPi-R4 users that want to start a thread?

Oh, one other question... I see there's a FPC connector for an extra LAN port (not clear if it's switched or not). Has anyone used that and what's the cable to make that work? Is there a knock-out machined into the case of an extra port?  And the diagram here:

https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI-R4_Pro/BananaPi_BPI-R4_Pro

Says "PoE Module RT5400" but I can't find any info on that.  There's this:

https://www.amazon.com/youyeetoo-BPI-RT5400-Isolation-BPI-F2P-BPI-WiFi/dp/B0D61ZKFL6

But it doesn't include the BPi-R4 in the description.  Is it PD (my guess) or PI (for driving an external device)?

Thanks