SFT 1200 OPAL openwrt vesion

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Is there any hope OPAL would receive Openwrt update? I have seen some messages about SiFlower implementation of Openwrt 23.04...

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If the SiFlower release the op23.04, we will follow to evaluate if update the op verison.

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SiFlower have not implemented Openwrt 23.04, they've gone straight to Openwrt SNAPSHOT, with kernel 6.6 support for the OPAL Chipset, looking at the commits so far though, the only thing missing according to reports is the PEB7084 switch driver, PEB7084 is also known as the GSW150 and was a Lantiq component, then Intel, now MaxLinear.

MaxLinear is also the WAN port manufacturer for the X3000, XE3000, MT3000, MT2500 and MT6000.

Here's hoping GL can get this working as the jigsaw pieces are there, they just need to put them together and be happy with the result.

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Thanks for info, please kindly update if any new info availaibe

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Thanks for your information, will let R&D guys evaluate this.

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Just update:

Discussed with SiFlower, let us wait them to submit relevant WIFI driver patches to the OpenWRT.

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Have they given any timescale?

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Waiting for SiFlower to submit relevant Wi-Fi driver patches to OpenWRT.

There may be some compatibility issues, and no time is given.

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Any update?

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Still await SiFlower improves this.

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It seems openwrt will not be supporting this then? I am not finding image builder for it.

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Wouldn't this be a driver?

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@alzhao @bruce is this the required switch code?

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you'd hope so, @bruce did mention something about WiFi issues, I'm currently booting the Siflower EVB image on a BPI-WiFi5, it boots, just do not have ethernet or wifi working at present, so working over serial at present.

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I really don't know. Let's wait a while for guys coming back to work

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Looks like Siflower are committing several patches to mainline Openwrt at once:
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=c057db94f8e229054c17bb3473e0914a915695de

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Any update? They seem to have added one device on the snapshot branch.

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Since my SFT1200 is basically unusable running on unsupported/unsecure OpenWrt v18.06 i contacted glinet support. Their answer was: "The software department is currently working on OpenWrt compatibility based on the new firmware, now we are facing some challenges at the moment, but engineers still trying resolve these issue.
Unfortunately, we do not have a clear plan can share."

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There's a lot of Opal owners here who would happily beta or even alpha test anything they wanted to let us test.

I have four Opals, one of them is stripped to the circuit board and serial is attached.

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I have some still unboxed and just waiting to be supported by the latest OpenWRT so that I can build my own firmware and flash it. A beta would be fun to test.

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