Banana Pi BPI-R2 OPENWRT 19.07 Image

Banana Pi Router design BPI-R2(MT7623N)
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Thank you for the Update

@dwmw2 as author of the script can you please check/fix this? for me it looks right

echo -e should convert \xXX to the byte with hexvalue XX (-n for no newline at the end)

you see only eth0? you should see wan/lanX and need assign ip to these dsa-interfaces (not to eth0)

i tried with this simple script:

 1 #!/bin/bash
 2
 3 OUTPUT=test.img
 4
 5 dd if=/dev/zero of=${OUTPUT} bs=1M count=2;
 6
 7 SDMMC_BOOT="SDMMC_BOOT\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00"
 8 EMMC_BOOT="EMMC_BOOT\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00"
 9 BRLYT="BRLYT\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x08\x00\x00\
10 \x00\x08\x00\x00\x42\x42\x42\x42\x08\x00\x01\x00\x00\x08\x00\x00\
11 \x00\x08\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
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14 echo -en "${SDMMC_BOOT}" | dd bs=1 of="${OUTPUT}" seek=0   conv=notrunc
15 echo -en "${BRLYT}"      | dd bs=1 of="${OUTPUT}" seek=512 conv=notrunc
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which results as it should:

00000000  53 44 4d 4d 43 5f 42 4f  4f 54 00 00 01 00 00 00  |SDMMC_BOOT......|
00000010  00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000020  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000200  42 52 4c 59 54 00 00 00  01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00  |BRLYT...........|
00000210  00 08 00 00 42 42 42 42  08 00 01 00 00 08 00 00  |....BBBB........|
00000220  00 08 00 00 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000230  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
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Box is fully working including all interfaces (lan, wan and wan6). Openvpn is stopped. No further investigation ATM. Probably thursday.

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Because I have altered the script for debugging purposed, I copied the original from github. Same results, the string on 0:0 begins with “-en SDMMC_BOOT\x00\x00\x01” and so on, any null bytes. I´m running ubuntu 20.04.1 on my system, if that matters. I also created test.sh like frank-w and get the correct results on my build system.

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I guess script is not executed in local bash…more in own buildchain where echo does not support flags -en

Btw. For everyone seeing retransmitts with kernel 5.4+: i posted patch for adding pause statement in bpi-r2 dts for switchport 6

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11760003/

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may it help to set /bin/echo in script?

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i don’t know…maybe it runs in chroot or similar…

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Thanks for your work. For newbies: how to add this patch in openwrt buildroot? Brute force: patching mt7623n-bananapi-bpi-r2.dts?

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If my wife let me hack today, I will report. Tolerance level is low after weekend :slight_smile:

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Change the shebang at the top of the script to #!/bin/bash instead of the current #!/bin/sh.

I’ll work out a better way to do this and fix it upstream without requiring bash, if I can…

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Will test it and report here.

Short: works

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openwrt is a bit tricky with applying patches…you can try to put it in the patches-5.4 folder…if that leads to a build.error you have to include it the normal way:

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/build-system/use-patches-with-buildsystem

btw. i don’t know if shell (you can show it by adding “type /bin/sh” in script) executing the script is the problem…it is only a thought…maybe changing shebang works, maybe not :wink: if script is running inside chroot it is possible that it also does not work if echo is build without the -e support. on my ubuntu 20.4 system i see this:

$ which echo
/usr/bin/echo
$ LANG=C type echo
echo is a shell builtin

so maybe using /usr/bin/echo helps

wonder why ubuntu uses dash :slight_smile:

 $ which sh
/usr/bin/sh
$ ls -l /usr/bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 27 13:01 /usr/bin/sh -> dash

i thought it was bash :stuck_out_tongue: but users having bash by default…

$ grep frank /etc/passwd
frank:x:1000:1000:Frank Wunderlich,,,:/home/frank:/bin/bash
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Thanks for your work. For newbies: how to add this patch in openwrt buildroot? Brute force: patching mt7623n-bananapi-bpi-r2.dts?

Post an appropriate patch (adding the patch file to openwrt.git) it to [email protected] or bring it to my attention to do so. Does it want to go in to 19.07 too?

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https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/patch/[email protected]/

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Thanks for testing.

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/patch/[email protected]/

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Maybe printf is an option https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/289760

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That doesn’t work in Ubuntu’s shell either.

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Maybe it’s better to leave discussion here. Can you take a look at my comments here

? Btw. Does your uboot contains pci/sata support? Then you should add this patch: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/[email protected]/

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Hey @rodman80 and @frank-w

Nice detailed info.
Just sharing my speeds on a GIGABIT WAN.
The board is behaving poorly…
Running Openwrt SNAPSHOT r16382-209c5918b5 / LuCI Master git-21.088.74150-ba4e214

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I was trying to switch my router to bananapi-r2 today. No luck.

I bought this board on Dec. 12 2018

Maybe I will have to wait 4 more years to be able… who knows? :rofl:

My TP link Archer C7 AC1750 V2 with 720 MHZ beats 650 Mbps… more than this board. Lol

DO you guys have more luck than me on it?

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Hello. Tell me there is in this image OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r 164-e887049fbb / LuCI Master git-21.088.74150-ba4e214 Sata support ? What packages do I need to install to connect the HDD, mount and install samba

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Openwrt master thread is here: [R64] Mainline OpenWRT image

For r2 sata should be available by default as it is not shared with pcie