Banana Pi-R4 (Pro) uboot status

[Daniel Golle]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 12:01:56PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
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> > On Mar 9, 2026, at 11:17 AM, Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 11:04:29AM -0600, Philip Prindeville via openwrt-devel wrote:
> >> Hi,
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> >> 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
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> Yow.  That's a big commit.  Besides not passing the formalities checks, what else is gating it?

It's a tech demo which allows testing the upstream submission for U-Boot
and the flat-image-tree spec. The suggested changes are discussed at the
respective upstream projects.