For anyone else making the same mistake: The R2 is NOT an upgrade but an entirely different product backed by a different SoC manufacturer (MTK and not Allwinner) and backed by a different developer community (this time NONE vs. linux-sunxi community before).
It took Sinovoip a year to release schematics for R1 while at the same time a lot of stuff simply did not work at all.
The network switch didnât work at all, again all the work done by community members (backporting the necessary stuff from OpenWRT, adopting changes): http://forum.lemaker.org/thread-10732-1-1.html
Not a single Linux OS image worked in the beginning (they provided just an Android!)
And now two and a half years later 3 community projects included all the knowledge and fixes (Bananian, Armbian and David Benthamâs OpenWRT) but the whole initial try&error show has been forgotten and people laugh about users that went through this unbelievable situation back then and have a reason to ask for schematics (without it youâre more or less lost when dealing with hardware issues) and ask for sources (without it youâre more or less lost to dealing with software issues).
Good luck to anyone happy with a closed source product (no schematics, no sources) without any developer community around! Keep in mind: community fixed ALL issues with R1 back then, Sinovoip did nothing to help.
-video recording from IP cameras (yet only implementing, even in my most budget solution already ordered several external usb SATA bays with external power for ~15 bucks per slot, even had no thoughts of using internal sata - 2.5 inch TB+ are more expansive then 3.5 and latest need 12v anyway, one hdd is definitely not enough for most reliable persistence task and you will definitely not use fast 2.5 ssd on on-board port at least maybe some big data labâŚ).
community fixed ALL issues with R1 back then, Sinovoip did nothing to help.
I thought that why we have the community and hardware manufactures (both low (Allwinner/MTK) and high (Sinovoip) levels). Actually I had no major unresolved issues with the configuration above (at least those I know about) and I think it is more then enough for hw costs. We may also blame the distributor for not contributing. Reverse engineering and closed schematic is crap, yet we see the fact - r1 exists and worksâŚ
Just IMHO, maybe I am wrong, you seems like an experienced guy in sbc just donât understand such hate for Sinovoip
I donât need any test video R2 is running Linux. If i want a mini ARM PC, i will buy another board.
I need you show me how this work as AP mode runs OpenWrt/LEDE firmware, is it OK?
It is not yet released. So if I understand you correct - it was totally the same situation with R1 and in several years we now have a perfect home router/server with only some geek problems like no VLAN port mapping during reboot and slow onboard SATA which nobody use anyway.
Why so many haters in this community. If you aim using OpenWrt firmware why bothering waiting R2 - you can use R1 or any other Asus or whatever.
They canât even provide boot logs so how should they show you any functionality besides a ping and usless desktop environments?
Have you seen a single time a wifi antenna connected to this board?
Have you seen on any picture Ethernet cables connected to both the WAN port and one of the switch ports?
Arenât you worried that on the pictures at the top of this thread not two Ethernet cables are connected to this board and no wifi antenna but thereâs an USB wifi dongle inserted (they âtestâ their board without using its core functionality)?
If you know these guys a bit longer you know that they havenât the slightest problem to sell unfinished products with 100% broken software. Thatâs why it is so important to make people aware and force SinoVoip to show boot logs (they canât since dmesg will still show TONS OF ERRORS proving that software isnât working properly), release kernel sources (they canât since they did not pay/sign the MTK NDA so they have no sources) and release schematics to check for the usual hardware flaws these guys introduce each time they release a new board.
But potential customers are happy to listen to the same marketing chitchat over and over again.
Yes, thank you. So we know now at least a little bit:
/cpus/cpu@0 missing clock-frequency property means cpufreq not working yet? Whatâs the clockspeed the cores are running with?
An ASM1062 is providing SATA functionality. Have you or MTK already explored the NCQ problem when accessing two disks in parallel. Does it need echo 1 > /sys/block/sdX/device/queue_type to slow the disks down when 2 disks are accessed in parallel? Have you ever tested with more than one disk?
sda is a 32 GB SDCZ80 USB3 thumb drive. 93.3 MB/s write performance looks ok until you look how fast this device is in reality: http://usb.userbenchmark.com/SanDisk-Extreme-USB-30-32GB/Rating/1466 (so your dd test is xxx, you test buffers not the device and you miss either conv=fdatasync or oflag=dsync flag)
sdb is a 320 GB SATA disk connected to ASM1062. 65.2 MB/s is horribly low given that you test wrongly and the thumb drive scores better
it seems WAN port is eth0 and LAN ports appear as single eth1 port (or vice versa). Random MAC-Address with both interfaces. Will you fix this?
Starting LSB: daemon to balance interrupts for SMP systems... really bad since does nothing and contains a memory leak eating up all the RAM over time (your Ubuntu rootfs from 2 years ago already contained this flaw, reported several times in forum, happily ignored every time)
If you would not have hold back this log for almost half a year this feedback couldâve arrived earlier (useless anyway, you ignore community feedback usually). Now imagine if you would immediately open your github repo to allow third parties to look through R2 kernel sources to improve stuff?
But it wouldnât change anything since even if community tries to help you you simply ignore it. Here a long time linux-sunxi community member took your kernel sources for this unfortunate BPi M2U and improved it in many ways: https://github.com/dan-and/BPI-M2U-bsp What did you do with this valuable information?
Ha ha, if it have 2 blank mini Pcie slot BPI-R2 will be better in alot of situation. I know SOC has 3 pcie lane but R2 use only 2, one for sata chip
We can chose MT7603 and MT7612 for Dual band wifi (cheaper than MT7615
i read both datasheet of ASM1062 & ASM1061 when i read about Witi Board, ASM1062 can use one or two lane PCIe, ASM1061 use one. But two lane for ASM1062 dont need because of limitation of gigabit port. Correct me if iâm wrong.
Exactly! âwhat change ? ?â Whatâs the difference between 1.0 and 1.1? Why hardware had to be changed and in which way? These are the questions (youâll never answer of course).
From time to time progress will be published, discussed with customers/community to eliminate mistakes and to pick up good ideas to improve the product: https://olimex.wordpress.com/?s=A64-OLinuXino
@sinovoip claims doing âopen source hardwareâ but does only the opposite. Everything is closed. No real open source hardware documents published, not even schematic, not a single line of code so far, this whole âopen sourceâ babbling is Just Not True. But fortunately for you, your customers are happy with that. They love to be told âwait and seeâ over and over again. Youâre the most lucky guy on earth with such customers
MTK7623N support 3 pcie interface , one for sata , one is standard pcie interface ,other one is for USB 3.0 port ,but can reuse with PIN define ,so if you not use USB 3.0 ,you can use 2 pcie interfact.
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MTK7623N support 3 pcie interface , one for sata , one is standard pcie interface ,other one is for USB 3.0 port[/quote]
Do you realize how many times @oueirehoahttb already asked about PCIe? You ignored this all the time. And since no schematic and no other documents are available ⌠ok, forget about it. What a waste of time trying to get any information from you.
From the views of hardware placement and related descrition, we can see something between MT7623A and MT7623N.
for MT7623N , it should be using the separated switch name as MT7530 which could be found working as independent IC near the nework port. while I guess MT7623A should integrate the switch function into SoC inside.
sinovoip should be board maker, if you pay for them, they should be happy customize for you.
i knew one board CANâT satisfy everyoneâs need. you can try to make understand if some pins out from the line of gpio if you want to build your own hardware from the prototype.
hardware V1.0 is you first version for BPI-R2, we not sale it yet , and hardware need optimized ,so we do V1.1 , and now ,we volume production V1.1 and public sale.
Can we get v1.1 board physical size measurements before release? Iâd maybe like to make a case for it in blender. Iâd also like to know how hot it gets(under load), if I might need to include vents/heatsinks/a fan.
