Banana Pi-R4 (Pro) uboot status

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Mar 9, 2026, at 11:17 AM, Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 11:04:29AM -0600, Philip Prindeville via openwrt-devel wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> What is the status of uboot on the variants of the BPi-R4?  I have a couple of Pro's I'd like to be able to boot from NVMe, as called out last August.  Checking in to see what progress there's been.
> 
> No such feature is planned at the moment for OpenWrt, as replied back
> then. This may change once standatization of OpenWrt's boot method has
> been completed, as that would include booting off arbitrary storage
> devices, including NVMe or removable USB storage.
> 
> See also
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/22177

Yow.  That's a big commit.  Besides not passing the formalities checks, what else is gating it?