Banana Pi-R4 (Pro) uboot status

Daniel Golle daniel at makrotopia.org
Mon Mar 9 10:17:23 PDT 2026


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



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