Hello, I have bought a BPI-R4-Pr last week. I cannot see any differences between the flashed OpenWRT on NAND and the Version BPI-R4Pro-8X-BE14-MT76-OpenWRT24.10-DSA-251229.zip i downloaded and booted from a SD-Card. Is is possible, that my BPI-R4-Pro has delivered with the new Firmware already? How can i check the differences between the Version of Nov 2025 and Dec 2025?
Greetings Alex
Excuse my english, it’s long ago 
The simplest thing is to check the 10G operation, the update that came with the December release 
Added support for 1000BASE-T and 2.5GBASE-T for 10G RJ45 WAN/LAN
Would be interesting which change exactly is debing this,so i can add it to my code too
It is hard to follow if in your git repo is only an “initial commit” and with feed squashed into i did not even find patch files regarding this.
The 100mbit downshift issue seems to be fixed with this one
But found nothing about 1G/2.5g…mtk feed just replaced the full driver with one with many debug code
ok, then i will test this and report the the results here. Thank you all.
I don’t know whether this patch is included in the latest build, which is dated December. But they also write: “when user uses ethtool to force 1Gbps.” In my case, it’s the opposite — the problem occurs at 2.5G, and if I manually set it to 1G, the uplink doesn’t drop to 100 anymore.
However, there are other oddities as well — for example, the Link partner advertised link modes doesn’t include 2.5, yet the speed is still set to 2.5. Anyway… here’s the message:
Perhaps this is related to compatibility. I have tried using different devices for testing. The rates obtained were also different.
Hi Frank,
the original SERDES used XFI mode, but the AS21010P doesn’t support adaptive rate in this mode, so we changed both MT and AS to USXGMII. You can ask Zuo how he modified it.
Regarding the 100Mbit downshift you mentioned, that might be an issue, but we haven’t tested it yet.
Hello, you can distinguish whether your R4Pro board is from November 2025 or December 2025 by the labels on the board. If the letters “BAL” at the beginning of the photo above refer to December 2025, then those with the letters “BAK” at the beginning refer to November 2025.
Ok, i’ve got a BAL. And the Boards with BAL have already the OpenWERT Image from 291225?
Greetings Alex
It can be confirmed that the board in your hand is already in the 251229 mirror image state when it was manufactured.
