OpenWrt One - celebrating 20 years of OpenWrt

[Fernando Frediani]

Hi, again, does this SoC have any type of NAT offload capability ? Now a 
days with common Internet Broadband plans that is becoming a must.

Also is there any possibility to consider more than just 2 Ethernet 
ports (at least 4)? Would that increase the cost significantly ?

Fernando

On 12/01/2024 12:16, Bas Mevissen wrote:
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> On 09/01/2024 11:49, John Crispin wrote:
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>> This is our first design, so let's KiSS!
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> Agreed, however as it needs to last for a long period of time, it 
> should not be too under powered.
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>> Hardwarespecifications:
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>> * SOC: MediaTek MT7981B
>> * Wi-Fi: MediaTek MT7976C (2x2 2.4 GHz + 3x3/2x2 + zero-wait DFS 5Ghz)
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> Was the MT7986AV, MT7976DA combo considered? Has 4x4 for office 
> applications (MU-MIMO), so might be useful for corporate or soho use.
> It also has more horse power to run some local services
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>> * DRAM: 1 GiB DDR4
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> What's the price difference with 2GB? For home automation purposes and 
> other virtualisation applications it might come in handy.
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>> * Flash: 128 MiB SPI NAND+ 4 MiB SPI NOR
>> * Ethernet: 2x RJ45 (2.5 GbE + 1 GbE)
>> * USB (host): USB 2.0 (Type-A port)
>> * USB (device, console): Holtek HT42B534-2 UART to USB (USB-C port)
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> Great idea!
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>> * Storage: M.2 2042 for NVMe SSD (PCIe gen 2 x1)
>> * Buttons: 2x (reset + user)
>> * Mechanical switch: 1x for boot selection (recovery, regular)
>> * LEDs: 2x (PWM driven), 2x ETH Led (GPIO driven)
>> * External hardware watchdog: EM Microelectronic EM6324 (GPIO driven)
>> * RTC: NXP PCF8563TS (I2C) with battery backup holder(CR1220)
>> * Power: USB-PD-12V on USB-C port (optional802.3at/afPoE via RT5040 
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>> * Expansion slots: mikroBUS
>> * Certification: FCC/EC/RoHS compliance
>> * Case: PCB size is compatible to BPi-R4 and the case design can be 
>> re-used
>> * JTAG for main SOC: 10-pin 1.27 mm pitch (ARM JTAG/SWD)
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> Nice to have the connector, would be great if a supported USB JTAG 
> adapter could be supplied as an option.
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>> * Antenna connectors: 3x MMCX for easy usage, assembly and durability
>> * Schematics: these will be publicly available (license TBD)
>> * GPL compliance: 3b. "Accompany it with a written offer ... to give 
>> any third party ... a complete machine-readable copy of the 
>> corresponding source code"
>> * Price: aiming for below 100$
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> Or just have 1 or 2 existing Banana Pi boards with OpenWRT branding? 
> The schematics are not really making much difference for most people. 
> Having all SW FOSS does.
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> Bas.
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