I see something I’m in love with 
It looks like it’s possible to solder a M.2 Key-E socket onto it?
Thank you for doing that!
I assume it comes with two lanes and standard pinout?
Hey Frank! I hope all is good. Any luck on getting your hands on the sample and willing to share some pictures/dts/details?
Thanks a ton.
Yes,but have some issues i try to workaround,but i have it bootable and mxl switch itself is recognized.
Current code is here:
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Hi Frank. Is there a chance to order a sample to test?
The schematic diagram should not have been made available so quickly. If it has been, it can be viewed here.
Could we first enable 9000 MTU support on the 10GbE port?
It would be nice if the EMMC storage was interchangeable.
Absolutely true!
To be honest, I am absolutelly 
with the 8GB on board, BUT:
- I would like to have an option to change the emmc whenever bad block appear or needs of an bigger capacity - as I already have 256GB emmc chips and I am not able to use them
- Installation of any OS on the emmc will be much easier - it is not really big challenge whenever you know what to do, but…
What about at least 2 more sfp+ net-ifs? What would it needs?
9k MTU - does it really do not needs any hw changes and only sw changes are required?- rss/lro is available already
- more powerfull cpu - does there is any available/usable
- more pciEx lines?
- other dependencies?
edit: added question to the 9k MTU…
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more powerfull cpu - does there is any available/usable
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more pciEx lines?
R4Pro is same SoC so it has same count of pcie lanes but it is basicly switchable by a gpio between slots. But i have not tried it yet,still try to get networking working on mxl switch.
The question is why is a more powerful cpu needed…where is the bottleneck?
Btw. The schematic does not match the board i have…both sfp/10g-phy combo ports are realized with an ethmux
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“basicly switchable by a gpio between slots”
→ I understand it (was not aware since now) 
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I did not need more cpu power … did not want more power consumption.
I would like to see more small wifi 7 modules (dreams are allowed? 
)
I assume, that with MTU at 9k will be more efficient in the high performance tasks on sfp? Does it is possible that 2k MTU causes avg load on all 4 cpu cores to 70% and therefore limit the performance of writing data through sfp port?
Does there will be still enough cpu power in cases like fe:
- primary server functions nfs, samba, tftp, iSCSI for disc-less stations on SFP and even ETH ports
- using RJ45 ports with both of the sfp ports in case of night backups, rsyncing or something like that?
- managing of raid5/6/10 arrays, including re-shaping, re-checking on background, and also working in degraded mode?
Thanks a lot for opinion of anyone 
Hello! Popping in here because I would like to know about a potential release date…
Currently I am using an ONT from my ISP that plugs in via SFP but my DrayTek router is being a bit of an issue - and a bottleneck. So I am very much looking forward for this board.
Is there any availability ETA or something? This, with OpenWrt, seems like a perfect fit for what I need.
Thanks!
There are some issues that need to be fixed in hardware and software before it is usable. I cannot recommend the R4Pro at this time.
If the R4Pro isn’t really ready and should be avoided for now, what would be a suitable choice of mainboard instead? I purchased a Turris Omnia several years ago and it was a good unit at that time, just looking for something updated to serve the same purpose. Thanks!
It depends on your needs…i use a bpi-r3 as main router with debian userspace
Hello Frank! I get you are working on it with mediatek (looking at your repo). Do you mind sharing what are these hardware/software issues?
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i have a really early board, i guess most of the issues are known so far and are fixed when the board comes into sale…it is not really relevant at this time for end-users…you only need to wait some hardware iterations and software development before getting such board except you also want to TEST and DEVELOPING (at linux driver level, not userspace) it…it is not for using in production environment yet
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I would like ask why it is not possible use 12V, 19V and on PRO version even 24V on every power source connector?
As I am using bpi-r4 as a nas, I am using 12V power source, and I am thinking why it is not possible to use 12V on the VH-2-pin connector?
It would be nice:
- to have possibility of using every voltage on every connector
- if power source connectors should automatically switch on order: VH-2PIN => USB Type-C => DCIN
Than it would be possible to use internal power source and even battery as backup and on different voltages.
Does it should be possible to add more leds to monitor activity of:
- every single sfp
- every single minipciEx
- every single m.2?
And then, what about using of PIN header to be able to “re-direct” any led signals to the external led connected to?
It should work like this:
- shorters will connect the signal pins to the internal leds by default
- another external led should be connected to the signal pin instead of shorter