[BPI-R3] burn image to onboard eMMC

Banana Pi Router design BPI-R3/R3 Mini(MT7986)
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Hi,

I would like to flash openwrt image into emmc. I read Getting Started with BPI-R3 - Banana Pi Wiki However, I don’t know where to look for the files mentioned there. I tried searching this forum for these particular names but without luck.

I also would like to get some confirmation regarding the procedure (double checking if I got everything right).

  1. Since I already have openwrt preflashed on nand or nor I can just boot from one of these.
  2. Plug usb into the board & mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
  3. Flash the openwrt image:
    dd if=some_image_name.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

Here are my questions:

  1. Where to get these files? Index of /snapshots/targets/mediatek/filogic/ looks the most reasonable but it contains different set of files. Should I use bananapi_bpi-r3-emmc-preloader.bin and bananapi_bpi-r3-emmc-bl31-uboot.fip? If so how to flash them? Then I suppose I will have to flash also openwrt image. How do I go about that? My main concern is that so far the image I used contained everything I needed (the system and the bootloader) and I am not sure about dd’ing multiple files into emmc.
  2. I know that Frank has shared some uboot/atf files here: en:bpi-r3:uboot [FW-WEB Wiki] Should I grab bpi-r3_emmc_fib.bin and bpi-r3_emmc_bl2.img. The rest is basically the same as in point 1.
  3. To boot openwrt from the sd card I simply used the image from here OpenWrt Firmware Selector . That was simple. Is there anything like that for emmc?

Many thanks in advance,

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Use this guide instead! https://openwrt.org/toh/sinovoip/bananapi_bpi-r3

Nr3. nope. You burn the SD card image, and then copy from SD card to Nand, and then boot from Nand to copy to eMMC. Bootloader limit.

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