[LEDE-DEV] new RBM33G board

[Alberto Bursi]

On 12/26/2017 09:35 AM, Outback Dingo 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.....
>

I'm curious. If this device had "enough memory", what you will use it for?
How much is "enough memory" for your use-case?

-Alberto