Banana Pi BPI-R3 OpenWRT image

Banana Pi Router design BPI-R3/R3 Mini(MT7986)
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https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=23.05.0-rc1&target=mediatek%2Ffilogic&id=bananapi_bpi-r3

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it works if you donā€™t customize the image. running very nicely I must say!

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Hi, Iā€™m trying to sysupgrade from SNAPSHOT r23213 to last snaphot but it fails:

The device is supported, but the config is incompatible to the new image (1.0->1.1). Please upgrade without keeping config (sysupgrade -n). Device tree overlay mechanism needs bootloader update

Please, can you help me? Do I need to install from scratch?

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Iā€™d start from scratch.

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Needs new bootloader. Either do that or redo from scratch with the SD Card image and write to nand nor etc.

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Started from scratch. I hope this is not frequently needed :wink:

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Openwrt 23.05.0-rc2 : https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.0-rc2/targets/mediatek/filogic/

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Just wanted to say Iā€™ve spent several days testing OpenWRT 23.05 RC2 using two devices connected by 2.5Gbit optical transceiver in their SFP cages, and I have found no issue. Both cages deliver 2.36Gbps sustained according to iperf. Latency is about 200 microseconds.

In NAND boot mode, I expanded the overlay partition on eMMC to 1Gb so I could install lots more packages, then had autopart create a LVM partition for the remaining 6Gb of space on eMMC, and both devices now boot from eMMC. Iā€™ve set the 6Gb store up as a Samba share on the network, and it works well, eMMC on these boards appears to perform at 150Mb/sec so itā€™s no slouch. Iā€™ll be using the Samba store for sensor logging, itā€™ll be very handy.

Theyā€™re finally about to go into the field at long last, I bought them last year but I was waiting for the stable OpenWRT release before deploying them as once deployed, theyā€™ll be hassle to fix any issues with them.

Hereā€™s hoping that reboot after a few hours problem others mentioned on here isnā€™t a problem for me!

Anyway I wanted to thank all those who brought this OpenWRT release to these devices. For the money, I canā€™t think of anything with comparable spec with a high quality port of OpenWRT on them (which for me is a non-negotiable). If these two units work out in the field over time, I expect to be buying a bunch more also using 2.5 Gbps fibre as the backhaul to implement a high quality Wifi 6 solution to a large building with 802.11r fast roaming. Thanks for making that possible for a relatively affordable price!

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To make the information complete, could you please also provide the information to flash the emmc from linux?

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i tried the bootloader update in openWRT Wiki:

You can also perform a bootloader update manually from inside OpenWrt, the procedure differs depending on the boot media Assuming all relevant files have been uploaded via SCP to /tmp on the device, you can update U-Boot by writing the correct *-bl31-uboot.fip in a media-specific way and clearing the bootloader environment, so it is re-created by the updated loader on first boot.

dd if=/tmp/*bananapi_bpi-r3-emmc-bl31-uboot.fip of=/dev/mmcblk0p3

clear environment

dd if=/dev/zero bs=65536 count=1 of=/dev/mmcblk0p1

Still got the error:

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Tried to force upgradeā€¦ but that didnā€™t work. So i used the MicroSD Method and restored a backup afterwards.

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Hello,

My BPI-R3 is working great with the, openwrt-23.05.0-rc3-92a7d087de39-mediatek-filogic-bananapi_bpi-r3-sdcard.img Many thanks to those who has made this happen.

Though, I do note a problemā€¦

In menu item Status, Channel Analysis, there is no update, and in a short time, I get Session timeout, it logs me out, and I have to relogin.

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Hmm, I just got flash to eMMC working, and, walla, this graph is now working. Shrugā€¦

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Hello, I got my device yesterday and had it working till I gave it a bad backup openwrt file. I have since attempted to boot from sdcard and all it does is say this?

U-Boot 2023.07.02-OpenWrt-r24084-3aef61060e (Oct 04 2023 - 22:56:57 +0000)

CPU:   MediaTek MT7986
Model: BananaPi BPi-R3
DRAM:  2 GiB
Core:  53 devices, 24 uclasses, devicetree: embed
jedec_spi_nor spi_nor@0: unrecognized JEDEC id bytes: ff, ef, aa
MMC:   mmc@11230000: 0
Loading Environment from MMC... mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
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mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
spi-nand: spi_nand spi_nand@1: Winbond SPI NAND was found.
spi-nand: spi_nand spi_nand@1: 128 MiB, block size: 128 KiB, page size: 2048, OOB size: 64
jedec_spi_nor spi_nor@0: unrecognized JEDEC id bytes: 00, ef, aa
'spi-nand0' is now active device
* spi-nand0
  - device: spi_nand@1
  - parent: spi@1100a000
  - driver: spi_nand
  - type: NAND flash
  - block size:        0x20000 bytes
  - page size:         0x800 bytes
  - OOB size:          64 bytes
  - OOB available:     24 bytes
  - 0x000000000000-0x000008000000 : "spi-nand0"
          - 0x000000000000-0x000000080000 : "bl2"
          - 0x000000080000-0x000000380000 : "factory"
          - 0x000000380000-0x000000580000 : "fip"
          - 0x000000580000-0x000008000000 : "ubi"
mmc fail to send stop cmd
Press ENTER to return to menu
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If I say install to nand then it says this

U-Boot 2023.07.02-OpenWrt-r24084-3aef61060e (Oct 04 2023 - 22:56:57 +0000)

CPU:   MediaTek MT7986
Model: BananaPi BPi-R3
DRAM:  2 GiB
Core:  53 devices, 24 uclasses, devicetree: embed
jedec_spi_nor spi_nor@0: unrecognized JEDEC id bytes: ff, ef, aa
MMC:   mmc@11230000: 0
Loading Environment from MMC... mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
mmc fail to send stop cmd
* spi-nand0
  - device: spi_nand@1
  - parent: spi@1100a000
  - driver: spi_nand
  - type: NAND flash
  - block size:        0x20000 bytes
  - page size:         0x800 bytes
  - OOB size:          64 bytes
  - OOB available:     24 bytes
  - 0x000000000000-0x000008000000 : "spi-nand0"
          - 0x000000000000-0x000000080000 : "bl2"
          - 0x000000080000-0x000000380000 : "factory"
          - 0x000000380000-0x000000580000 : "fip"
          - 0x000000580000-0x000008000000 : "ubi"
mmc fail to send stop cmd
Press ENTER to return to menu
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I have tried to also reset all settings with option a. and that seems to do nothing.

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which sd-card vendor/model do you use? we have seen some sporadic mmc-issues in uboot on R3, but have not nailed down to root cause as they do not happen always.

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I have a samsung evo plus 32GB sdcard.

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Can you try another model?

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I did. It worked with a team32 GB Class 10 sdcard. Thank you for the help!!

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I can boot from sd card and flash and boot from NOR following the instructions here: https://openwrt.org/toh/sinovoip/bananapi_bpi_r3_v1.0_v1.1#installation

But flashing to NAND or EMMC is not working. NAND will boot cycle but when switching over will then just boot to the shipping firmware. EMMC does not flash nor boot at all. When looking at /dev/mmcblk0 I can see no partition table exists. Can anyone offer some advise of how to debug/fix or will I need to get a serial console running to see uboot debug output?