Thanks for publishing the source — it was a pleasure to read through.
A few things that stood out for me:
the A/B layout with U-Boot bootcount / altbootcmd, and the environment being verified by read-back before a slot switch,
RELEASE-INPUTS.lock.json pinning OpenWrt, the feeds and every patch by hash,
the installation guide — the exact file per model, and SHA-256 steps for both Linux and Windows,
the care in LICENSING.md, e.g. moving the AS21xxx PHY firmware out of vmlinux into a separate package.
A few questions, if I may:
BPI-R4 with 8 GB RAM — the R4 images use the shared -comb BL2, which (as the Pro 8X patch notes) sizes DRAM at 4 GB. Is an 8 GB R4 variant planned, e.g. with the comb-4bg BL2 you already use for the Pro 8X?
Wi-Fi 7 MLO — is multi-link (MLO) configuration planned for the web interface?
NVMe — are there plans to allow installing the system itself to an M.2 NVMe drive (larger root, Docker), in addition to eMMC?
Hardware offload — flow offloading and WED are disabled in v1.5, I assume so that SQM and the Guest/IoT limits stay accurate. Could offload become an option for setups that don’t use shaping?
Pro 8X — boards.sh lists 2.5/5/10 Gbps negotiation and the SFP path as still open. Is there a rough timeline for those?
Also, 989-mtk-eth-defer-notifier-leak.patch looks like it could be useful upstream as well.
