Yep and I took it second hand for a great price and then installed OpenWrt on it.
if you are looking just for a 10g switch solution maybe take a look on rtl930x/rtl931x solutions. we made alot of progress in development for these devices including 10g sfp+ support. unfortunatly i just have some sort of limited amount of test devices and some of them are just engineering samples.
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qualcomm made it available as opensource. but bringing it upstream? the current code for nss patches also alot of kernel stuff. this will never be accepted. in my firmware i was changing the code in away to allow to disable nss on demand at runtime and i can also compile the wifi sources with all the patches we made without nss support. so i can use the same driver for all of it. the bug issue on nss is that the nss firmware source isnt open. i have some historic sources of it which are not up to date but i can tell you there is nothing special in it. its basicly just offloading the ethernet driver and some code to a second cpu which is the nss core (based on ubicom 8k).
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Tried looking it up, but I don't really see any particular devices. Do you know some examples?
Well, that's exactly the problem. They don't want to bother to make it upstreamable even with all their money (it's not some startup), so I'd rather avoid relying on such kind of stuff.
Kind of surprising their wifi drivers got upstream in the first place and even became quite decent, but may be someone just did all that initial work for them.
Hi everyone. I've been following this thread and others about this device for a while, so I decided to join in. I've seen quite a bit of confusion regarding the hardware version (A1, A2, B1, B2) specifications for this model, so I decided to raise the issue.
Here are the real differences between them:
RT-AX89X Hardware Versions:
A1: IPQ8074 + AQR107
A2: IPQ8074 + AQR113
B1: IPQ8074A + AQR113
B2: IPQ8074A + AQR113C
Thank you.
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i mainly run my tests on a ecs4125. but there are others. you need todo some research to find the correct device for you. but you need also to check if this device is running linux. some of the vendors are running threadx on such devices. technically this platform is capable of doing multiple 10g ports but not all vendors are implementing 10g ports on it
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nope. the B1 is also just AQR107 from what i know
and for A1/A2 models. for this you need a different wifi firmware which isnt maintained by qca anymore for a long time and more problematic. ath11k doesnt support it. however. its possible to patch ath11k to run it.
so only B1 and B2 can be supported. on the other hand i also have never seen a A1/A2 in the wild
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No it's not, AQR107 is only present on A1.
I have tested and disassembled all of them, so you can be sure that my previous information is accurate.
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At the time I got them all new, they are the first batches and in limited quantities of this model since they were replaced by newer versions, but they can stil be found easily, especially on the used market, i've crossed over some of them on eBay and other marketplaces.
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use market in north america maybe, but not in europe
I'm European and I've seen them available on Ebay .de .it and .fr back in the day.
For the reference all of them are out of production by Asus by now, including B models, so they are all either used market or some remaining stock. I actually had hard time finding B model (I had to return one A model) until I found some Asus France store that was shipping internationally and got a B2 model there.
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Yes, that's exactly the current situation, but many are still sold new in stores.
At this point I don't think it's such an appealing model anymore, as the hardware is already about 6 years old and has been discontinued, but it is still a capable device.
Currently, there are much more interesting models on the market with new hardware, namely IPQ9574 + QNC9274 (Wi-Fi 7) + 2 or 4GB RAM.
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It's the only decent example I found for WiFi that has SFP+ port and runs OpenWRT. Short of building your own custom device, not sure what else currently has such combo.
Is there anything newer with the above criteria?
mmh from the dts documentation its b1 too. okay i dont have a b1. someone who is running a b1 can maybe check it with the phyid since its now supported by openwrt based on the patches i provided
shipping from europe or from china etc.? duty handling is always a concern and in the opensource enviroment i depend on hw donations. i cannot buy all the different variants of courses.
true. as soon as i get such a device in my hand i will also work on it.
I don't know why but with my latest build I cannot run debug=true fan_monitor
root@Asus:~# debug=true fan_monitor
-ash: fan_monitor: not found
No, they don't support OpenWRT.
If that's the case, the DTS documentation is wrong. No one will find an RT-AX89X B1 using AR107, it's simply not possible based on the facts. Furthermore, as I previously mentioned i've tested several of them and they always all matched, also it wouldn't make any sense for the manufacturer (ASUS) to put random chips with different specifications in a device with the same hardware version, that's simply non-sense.
Both cases. Yes indeed. 
Thank you. 
Did you actually copy the scripts to their needed locations?