GL-SFT1200 Opal OpenWrt Support

hi all
have you a time line, when OpenWrt would be supported on the GL-SFT1200 Opal

Many Thanks

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No. I don’t have.

Just don’t expect it.

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Why will there be no update for this device, that’s poor.
in future i will only be purchasing items with a track record of updates, especially when security updates are concerned.

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https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=4ed209326b5299584ad22b82d0f5ba0d12ceb169

Looks like it's been merged.

any chance of a Openwrt 6.6 kernel gl-inet firmware for my Opal please :slight_smile:

Oh and looks like the SF1200 could also have support?

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Awesome!
dear @alzhao please take a look, thanks! :slight_smile:

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I've built the siflower evaluation board without issue using Openwrt snapshot.

So at this point, I have three Opals, and I'm happy to test whatever beta firmware is available.

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Is there any wifi driver? I haven't see this.

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It's mentioned in the reference board:
Built-in 2x2 11N + 2x2 11AC WiFi radio
Both WiFi are referenced in target/linux/siflower/files-6.6/drivers/clk/siflower/clk-sf19a2890.c

332 static SF19A28_MUXDIV(muxdiv_wlan24_plf, 0x2c0, 0);
333 static SF19A28_MUXDIV(muxdiv_wlan5_plf, 0x2e0, 0);
357 [CLK_MUXDIV_WLAN24_PLF] = &muxdiv_wlan24_plf.common.hw,
358 [CLK_MUXDIV_WLAN5_PLF] = &muxdiv_wlan5_plf.common.hw,

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We are on that. Hope to work out all the drivers.

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In answer to your "I haven't seen this."
I emailed Siflower in August, and they advised:

We are planning to directly submit the code to the latest OpenWrt upstream for merging, supporting kernel 6.6. It is expected to be visible in about a month.

Six weeks later, Siflower have done what they were aiming to do.

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We pushed for several years actually.

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I am wondering if the BPI-WiFi5 coming out has helped with this:

Same chipset, in fact I have found another 4 devices suggesting that Siflower are doing well with getting this chipset out there.

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Everybody helps. But we should be the first and biggest vendor using this chipset.

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Oh agreed on that, just noticing that Siflower only last week updated the 18.06 SDK with the bpi dts:

you cannot buy the BPI model, only request a sample.

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Any issues with me trying the evb build on my sft1200, I see the ethernet switch might be missing.

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@alzhao any news, either good or bad.
Happy to test anything for the sft1200.

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Sorry no news at all as the long holidy!

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Understood, aware of the holiday from my contacts in Fanvil.

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Any movement?
I have a BPI WiFi5 in front of me to see if I can get either it or my four Opals to build with the 6.6 kernel commits

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There was still one issue not resolved. Let me check out.

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