PoE passthrough on ramips/mt7621/760igs: how to verify the contents of the configuration file in the current -devel image?
Antonio Muci
a.mux at inwind.it
Mon Mar 3 07:03:38 PST 2025
Hi,
the official OpenWRT 24.10.0 image for
ramips/mt7621/mikrotik_routerboard_760igs has a small but inconvenient
bug, where the content of /etc/config/system is not aligned with the
contents of the devicetree, resulting in PoE passthrough not working.
The solution is easy (https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/17980),
and I've reported it on the wiki at
https://openwrt.org/toh/mikrotik/rb760igs#poe, too.
However, meddling around the repos, I was not able to figure out how the
contents of /etc/config/system is put together by the build scripts.
I also tried to manually mount a development snapshot in a linux machine
(playing with mtd, loop device and yaffs2), but I was not able to do it.
So I try the direct human-to-human way: could please a developer verify
that the current contents of /etc/config/system for the target Mikrotik
Routerboard 760igs (Hex S) is as follows?
```
config gpio_switch 'poe_passthrough'
option name 'PoE Passthrough'
option gpio_pin '529' # <-- 24.10.0 contains '497', which is wrong
```
As I said, all the details are in
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/17980. I'd just like to
prevent issues in future releases.
Thank you very much!
Antonio
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