[LEDE-DEV] new RBM33G board

[Outback Dingo]

On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 11:39 PM, Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 10:50:41AM -0700, dan wrote:
>> Guys, new product from mikrotik.  RBM33G.  Has a MT7621A CPU w/ 16MB
>> of flash, 256MB RAM, and pcie m.2.
>>
>> This thing has 2 mini pci2 slots and 3 gigabit ethernet port and looks
>> nearly perfect for a dual radio, quad channel mesh box.
>
> Sounds promissing :) And the price is also quite convincing...
>
>>
>> I see that there are some devices with this cpu already supported by
>> lede.  Any chance someone has got their hands on this unit and know if
>> the bootloader is usable ie if LEDE will run on it?  If not, anyone
>> take bounties to 'port' LEDE to a specific board?
>
> MT7621 is generally quite straight forward, all boards I've seen for
> now use MTK's SDK U-Boot which could even be replaced quite easily
> in case it is locked down or anything.
> Porting LEDE hence shouldn't be very hard, I estimate that to be one
> hack-evening for it to be running somehow, two days to include support
> for a non-intrusive initial flash method (support vendors web-ui
> firmware format, tftp/recovery or find a backdoor).
> I'd be up to do that for getting the hardware + you-name-it.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Daniel
>
>

the fact that it has only 256mb memory is what makes me not
interested, nice design, lacks memory....
probablly a decent enough IoT device for things like home automation
or other, as an AP ? well.....


>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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