Careful, while new sunxi devices are generally relatively relatively easy to add support for, it doesn't materialize out of thin air either (read, at this moment it is not supported by OpenWrt).
They probably need to rename their fork if OpenWrt is a registered trademark and they are insisting that they do not need to work with their upstream in what looks like an attempt to be considered upstream themselves.
Kind of odd when vendors do this. They fork but keep the same name..
As of tag 18.06.2, the official OpenWRT does not support NanoPi R1 (Allwinner H3).
The OpenWRT only support Allwinner A1x, A20/A3x and A64.
The manufacture's fork is heavily modified source code, and have many compatibility issues with other packages.
The Allwinner H3 looks really good but it is too cheap, support it now may cause market/price turmoil. Years later, when famous brands released more advanced devices, the support of Allwinner H3 may be possible.
The xunlong_orange_pi has only one 100 Mbps Ethernet, so it is supported by the OpenWRT.
For now, OpenWRT would not support any cheap dual-ethernet Pi(s).
The only exception is GL-MT300A which only has two 100 Mbps ethernet, rather than 1Gbps+100Mbps.
This looks like exactly the sort of device I was hoping to find a couple years ago when I upgraded my LAN and switched fromm DD-WRT. If I buy one now looks like, given that there's already an OpenWRT fork for it, there may appear soon full support under standard OpenWRT, right?
Only if someone with the board in hand and the skills, time, and desire to port it.
There is a difference between "should be straightforward" to going through all the steps to get it working, get the code into an acceptable form, and get it accepted into master. If you consider "standard OpenWrt" meaning "release" images (as opposed to "snapshot" images), then there's likely going to be months until that happens, as the release branch for v19 has just been "cut".
another problem with nanopi-r1 is that it's expensive, $29 is the base price, then you must add at least a SD card, which is $8 or so, and power supply, and shipping is $8, now it's about $50 before you can boot it up. If you want its eMMC version plus a little more memory, that's another $10.
Please use this topic only for discussions regarding adding OpenWrt support for this device.
For questions like "Which device should I buy? Which device is better / cheaper / faster than...?" please open a new topic in the hardware section of this forum.
Armbian already has a build for the board which is marked as mature software, so it looks like there should not be major problems with the drivers in OpenWrt.
The H5 will be different for sure, but the H3 is going to be nearly identical to the R1 with just a few DTS changes. I will probably buy one but I don't think I have the time to pick through their code and mainline everything into OpenWRT.