[LEDE-DEV] new RBM33G board

[dan]

Mr Dingo, I understand that for typical 'soho router' type use this is
pretty small, but for me I'm just wanting a batman-adv mesh node and
that's plenty of RAM.  A 4 radio mesh with dual 802.11ac mini pci-e
radios and this would be a powerhouse.  And at this price point, I
could be <$200 per node.  This is a bit outside the normal lede scope,
but I have a design for a 3 tiered hybrid mesh with backhaul radios,
super nodes, and micro nodes.  I have everything except the supernode
(ubnt backhauls, uap-ac-m micro node) and just need that last piece
with 3 gigabit ports and here it is in a $50 board.

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 1:35 AM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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