This is very important. Please tell me you can, I don't want to brick it mistakenly. Also installation methods are not there, I click the link in the wiki and it's empty.
Compare stock fw files, to see if they're identical to the ones from the other regions.
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=8b24289a5267e486abd9ccbf4b4ad82f14d545ae
Like binwalk?
Like any checksum tool, or binary file compare.
Notice me senpai. Not any soul has tried it? Btw, it seems EU version has different hardware cuz it's 1.6GHz quad core, not 2.0GHz quad core unlike US versions. Probably not possible then. fffffffff this would have been so good... motherflowers..
I've done some research so, EU version uses MT7986B SoC and US version uses MT7986A SoC. It might maybe maybe work, but need someone to test it, I am not able to test nowadays. See here, I grepped for some strings like mediatek inside the files after I binwalked it.
user@user-dell:~/Belgeler/ax80 firmware/us$ cat EU.txt
Driver Compatible
ERROR: new format image overwritten - must RESET the board to recover
Must RESET board to recover
mtkboardboot
- must RESET the board to recover.
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
- must RESET the board to recover.
compatible
mediatek_reset
mediatek,ethsys
mediatek,gmac-id
mediatek,sgmiisys
mediatek,switch
mediatek,mcm
drivers/pci/pcie_mediatek.c
mediatek_gpio
mediatek,force-highspeed
CPU: MediaTek MT7986
Display MediaTek bootmenu
MediaTek BootROM loadable Image
print Board Info structure
board
mediatek,mt7986-ethsys
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg_ao
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg
mediatek,mt7986-topckgen
mediatek,mt7986-fixed-plls
mediatek,mt7622-i2c
mediatek,mt7623-i2c
mediatek,mt7629-i2c
mediatek,mt7981-i2c
mediatek,mt7986-i2c
mediatek,mt8183-i2c
mediatek,mt8512-i2c
mediatek,mt8518-i2c
mediatek,mt7620-mmc
mediatek,mt7622-mmc
mediatek,mt7623-mmc
mediatek,mt7986-mmc
mediatek,mt7981-mmc
mediatek,mt8512-mmc
mediatek,mt8516-mmc
mediatek,mt8183-mmc
mediatek,mt7629-eth
mediatek,mt7623-eth
mediatek,mt7622-eth
mediatek,mt7986-eth
mediatek,mt7981-eth
pcie_mediatek_v2
mediatek,mt7622-pcie
pcie_mediatek_v1
mediatek,mt7623-pcie
mediatek,mt7986-pinctrl
mediatek,mt7622-scpsys
mediatek,mt7623-scpsys
mediatek,mt7629-scpsys
mediatek,hsuart
mediatek,mt6577-uart
mediatek,ipm-spi
mediatek,mt7622-pwm
mediatek,mt7623-pwm
mediatek,mt7629-pwm
mediatek,mt7981-pwm
mediatek,mt7986-pwm
ubi%d: "delete" compatible internal volume %d:%d found, will remove it
ubi%d: read-only compatible internal volume %d:%d found, switch to read-only mode
ubi%d: "preserve" compatible internal volume %d:%d found
ubi%d error: %s: incompatible internal volume %d:%d found
ubi%d error: %s: node with incompatible UBI version found: this UBI version is %d, image version is %d
mediatek,mt7986
mediatek,mt7986-rfb
mediatek,mt7986-timer
mediatek,mt7986-wdt
mediatek,mt7986-fixed-plls
mediatek,mt7986-topckgen
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg_ao
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg
mediatek,mt7986-pinctrl
mediatek,mt7986-pwm
mediatek,hsuart
mediatek,hsuart
mediatek,hsuart
mediatek,mt7986-i2c
mediatek,mt7986-snand
mediatek,mt7986-ethsys
mediatek,mt7986-eth
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys
mediatek,ipm-spi
mediatek,ipm-spi
mediatek,mt7986-mmc
mediatek,mt7986-xhci
mediatek,mtk-xhci
mediatek,mt7986
mediatek,generic-tphy-v2
compatible
mediatek,force-highspeed
mediatek,ethsys
mediatek,sgmiisys
mediatek,gmac-id
mediatek,switch
mediatek,mt7986b-snand-rfb
7MediaTek MT7986b RFB
mediatek,wed
mediatek,wed2
mediatek,wed-wdma
mediatek,ap2woccif
mediatek,wocpu0_ilm
mediatek,wocpu1_ilm
mediatek,wocpu_dlm
mediatek,wocpu_boot
mediatek,wmcpu-reserved
mediatek,wocpu0_emi
mediatek,wocpu1_emi
mediatek,wocpu_data
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg_ao
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg
mediatek,mt7986-topckgen
mediatek,mt7986-apmixedsys
mediatek,mt7622-wdt
mediatek,mt6589-wdt
mediatek,mt7986-pwm
mediatek,mt7986-uart
mediatek,mt6577-uart
mediatek,mt7986-uart
mediatek,mt6577-uart
mediatek,mt7986-uart
mediatek,mt6577-uart
mediatek,mt7986-i2c
mediatek,mt7986-thermal
mediatek,mt7986-pinctrl
mediatek,mt7986-ethsys_ck
mediatek,mt7986-eth
mediatek,eth-mac
mediatek,eth-mac
mediatek,mt7531
mediatek,mtk-hnat_v4
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys_0
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys_1
mediatek,mt7986-snand
mediatek,wbsys
mediatek,wed_pcie
mediatek,ipm-spi-quad
mediatek,ipm-spi-single
mediatek,mt7986-mmc
mediatek,mt7986-auxadc
mediatek,mt7622-auxadc
mediatek,mt7986-consys
mediatek,mt7986-xhci
mediatek,mtk-xhci
mediatek,mt7986
mediatek,generic-tphy-v2
mediatek,clk-bring-up
mediatek,mt7986-rng
mediatek,mt7623-rng
mediatek,mt8512-ice_debug
mediatek,mt2701-ice_debug
mediatek,mt7986-efuse
mediatek,efuse
mediatek,reserved-memory
compatible
mediatek,auxadc
mediatek,apmixedsys
mediatek,pull-down-adv
mediatek,pull-up-adv
mediatek,ethsys
mediatek,sgmiisys
mediatek,mtd-eeprom
AND THIS IS THE US STOCK FIRMWARE:
user@user-dell:~/Belgeler/ax80 firmware/us$ cat EU.txt
Driver Compatible
ERROR: new format image overwritten - must RESET the board to recover
Must RESET board to recover
mtkboardboot
- must RESET the board to recover.
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
- must RESET the board to recover.
compatible
mediatek_reset
mediatek,ethsys
mediatek,gmac-id
mediatek,sgmiisys
mediatek,switch
mediatek,mcm
drivers/pci/pcie_mediatek.c
mediatek_gpio
mediatek,force-highspeed
CPU: MediaTek MT7986
Display MediaTek bootmenu
MediaTek BootROM loadable Image
print Board Info structure
board
mediatek,mt7986-ethsys
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg_ao
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg
mediatek,mt7986-topckgen
mediatek,mt7986-fixed-plls
mediatek,mt7622-i2c
mediatek,mt7623-i2c
mediatek,mt7629-i2c
mediatek,mt7981-i2c
mediatek,mt7986-i2c
mediatek,mt8183-i2c
mediatek,mt8512-i2c
mediatek,mt8518-i2c
mediatek,mt7620-mmc
mediatek,mt7622-mmc
mediatek,mt7623-mmc
mediatek,mt7986-mmc
mediatek,mt7981-mmc
mediatek,mt8512-mmc
mediatek,mt8516-mmc
mediatek,mt8183-mmc
mediatek,mt7629-eth
mediatek,mt7623-eth
mediatek,mt7622-eth
mediatek,mt7986-eth
mediatek,mt7981-eth
pcie_mediatek_v2
mediatek,mt7622-pcie
pcie_mediatek_v1
mediatek,mt7623-pcie
mediatek,mt7986-pinctrl
mediatek,mt7622-scpsys
mediatek,mt7623-scpsys
mediatek,mt7629-scpsys
mediatek,hsuart
mediatek,mt6577-uart
mediatek,ipm-spi
mediatek,mt7622-pwm
mediatek,mt7623-pwm
mediatek,mt7629-pwm
mediatek,mt7981-pwm
mediatek,mt7986-pwm
ubi%d: "delete" compatible internal volume %d:%d found, will remove it
ubi%d: read-only compatible internal volume %d:%d found, switch to read-only mode
ubi%d: "preserve" compatible internal volume %d:%d found
ubi%d error: %s: incompatible internal volume %d:%d found
ubi%d error: %s: node with incompatible UBI version found: this UBI version is %d, image version is %d
mediatek,mt7986
mediatek,mt7986-rfb
mediatek,mt7986-timer
mediatek,mt7986-wdt
mediatek,mt7986-fixed-plls
mediatek,mt7986-topckgen
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg_ao
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg
mediatek,mt7986-pinctrl
mediatek,mt7986-pwm
mediatek,hsuart
mediatek,hsuart
mediatek,hsuart
mediatek,mt7986-i2c
mediatek,mt7986-snand
mediatek,mt7986-ethsys
mediatek,mt7986-eth
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys
mediatek,ipm-spi
mediatek,ipm-spi
mediatek,mt7986-mmc
mediatek,mt7986-xhci
mediatek,mtk-xhci
mediatek,mt7986
mediatek,generic-tphy-v2
compatible
mediatek,force-highspeed
mediatek,ethsys
mediatek,sgmiisys
mediatek,gmac-id
mediatek,switch
mediatek,mt7986b-snand-rfb
7MediaTek MT7986b RFB
mediatek,wed
mediatek,wed2
mediatek,wed-wdma
mediatek,ap2woccif
mediatek,wocpu0_ilm
mediatek,wocpu1_ilm
mediatek,wocpu_dlm
mediatek,wocpu_boot
mediatek,wmcpu-reserved
mediatek,wocpu0_emi
mediatek,wocpu1_emi
mediatek,wocpu_data
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg_ao
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg
mediatek,mt7986-topckgen
mediatek,mt7986-apmixedsys
mediatek,mt7622-wdt
mediatek,mt6589-wdt
mediatek,mt7986-pwm
mediatek,mt7986-uart
mediatek,mt6577-uart
mediatek,mt7986-uart
mediatek,mt6577-uart
mediatek,mt7986-uart
mediatek,mt6577-uart
mediatek,mt7986-i2c
mediatek,mt7986-thermal
mediatek,mt7986-pinctrl
mediatek,mt7986-ethsys_ck
mediatek,mt7986-eth
mediatek,eth-mac
mediatek,eth-mac
mediatek,mt7531
mediatek,mtk-hnat_v4
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys_0
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys_1
mediatek,mt7986-snand
mediatek,wbsys
mediatek,wed_pcie
mediatek,ipm-spi-quad
mediatek,ipm-spi-single
mediatek,mt7986-mmc
mediatek,mt7986-auxadc
mediatek,mt7622-auxadc
mediatek,mt7986-consys
mediatek,mt7986-xhci
mediatek,mtk-xhci
mediatek,mt7986
mediatek,generic-tphy-v2
mediatek,clk-bring-up
mediatek,mt7986-rng
mediatek,mt7623-rng
mediatek,mt8512-ice_debug
mediatek,mt2701-ice_debug
mediatek,mt7986-efuse
mediatek,efuse
mediatek,reserved-memory
compatible
mediatek,auxadc
mediatek,apmixedsys
mediatek,pull-down-adv
mediatek,pull-up-adv
mediatek,ethsys
mediatek,sgmiisys
mediatek,mtd-eeprom
AND THIS IS THE US VERSION:
user@user-dell:~/Belgeler/ax80 firmware/us$ cat US.txt
Driver Compatible
ERROR: new format image overwritten - must RESET the board to recover
Must RESET board to recover
mtkboardboot
- must RESET the board to recover.
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
- must RESET the board to recover.
compatible
mediatek_reset
mediatek,ethsys
mediatek,gmac-id
mediatek,sgmiisys
mediatek,switch
mediatek,mcm
drivers/pci/pcie_mediatek.c
mediatek_gpio
mediatek,force-highspeed
CPU: MediaTek MT7986
Display MediaTek bootmenu
MediaTek BootROM loadable Image
print Board Info structure
board
mediatek,mt7986-ethsys
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg_ao
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg
mediatek,mt7986-topckgen
mediatek,mt7986-fixed-plls
mediatek,mt7622-i2c
mediatek,mt7623-i2c
mediatek,mt7629-i2c
mediatek,mt7981-i2c
mediatek,mt7986-i2c
mediatek,mt8183-i2c
mediatek,mt8512-i2c
mediatek,mt8518-i2c
mediatek,mt7620-mmc
mediatek,mt7622-mmc
mediatek,mt7623-mmc
mediatek,mt7986-mmc
mediatek,mt7981-mmc
mediatek,mt8512-mmc
mediatek,mt8516-mmc
mediatek,mt8183-mmc
mediatek,mt7629-eth
mediatek,mt7623-eth
mediatek,mt7622-eth
mediatek,mt7986-eth
mediatek,mt7981-eth
pcie_mediatek_v2
mediatek,mt7622-pcie
pcie_mediatek_v1
mediatek,mt7623-pcie
mediatek,mt7986-pinctrl
mediatek,mt7622-scpsys
mediatek,mt7623-scpsys
mediatek,mt7629-scpsys
mediatek,hsuart
mediatek,mt6577-uart
mediatek,ipm-spi
mediatek,mt7622-pwm
mediatek,mt7623-pwm
mediatek,mt7629-pwm
mediatek,mt7981-pwm
mediatek,mt7986-pwm
ubi%d: "delete" compatible internal volume %d:%d found, will remove it
ubi%d: read-only compatible internal volume %d:%d found, switch to read-only mode
ubi%d: "preserve" compatible internal volume %d:%d found
ubi%d error: %s: incompatible internal volume %d:%d found
ubi%d error: %s: node with incompatible UBI version found: this UBI version is %d, image version is %d
mediatek,mt7986
mediatek,mt7986-rfb
mediatek,mt7986-timer
mediatek,mt7986-wdt
mediatek,mt7986-fixed-plls
mediatek,mt7986-topckgen
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg_ao
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg
mediatek,mt7986-pinctrl
mediatek,mt7986-pwm
mediatek,hsuart
mediatek,hsuart
mediatek,hsuart
mediatek,mt7986-i2c
mediatek,mt7986-snand
mediatek,mt7986-ethsys
mediatek,mt7986-eth
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys
mediatek,ipm-spi
mediatek,ipm-spi
mediatek,mt7986-mmc
mediatek,mt7986-xhci
mediatek,mtk-xhci
mediatek,mt7986
mediatek,generic-tphy-v2
compatible
mediatek,force-highspeed
mediatek,ethsys
mediatek,sgmiisys
mediatek,gmac-id
mediatek,switch
mediatek,mt7986a-snand-rfb
7MediaTek MT7986a RFB
mediatek,wed
mediatek,wed2
mediatek,wed-wdma
mediatek,ap2woccif
mediatek,wocpu0_ilm
mediatek,wocpu1_ilm
mediatek,wocpu_dlm
mediatek,wocpu_boot
mediatek,wmcpu-reserved
mediatek,wocpu0_emi
mediatek,wocpu1_emi
mediatek,wocpu_data
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg_ao
mediatek,mt7986-infracfg
mediatek,mt7986-topckgen
mediatek,mt7986-apmixedsys
mediatek,mt7622-wdt
mediatek,mt6589-wdt
mediatek,mt7986-pwm
mediatek,mt7986-uart
mediatek,mt6577-uart
mediatek,mt7986-uart
mediatek,mt6577-uart
mediatek,mt7986-uart
mediatek,mt6577-uart
mediatek,mt7986-i2c
mediatek,mt7986-thermal
mediatek,mt7986-pcie
mediatek,mt7986-pinctrl
mediatek,mt7986-ethsys_ck
mediatek,mt7986-eth
mediatek,eth-mac
mediatek,eth-mac
mediatek,mt7531
mediatek,mtk-hnat_v4
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys_0
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys
mediatek,mt7986-sgmiisys_1
mediatek,mt7986-snand
mediatek,wbsys
mediatek,wed_pcie
mediatek,ipm-spi-quad
mediatek,ipm-spi-single
mediatek,mt7986-mmc
mediatek,mt7986-auxadc
mediatek,mt7622-auxadc
mediatek,mt7986-consys
mediatek,mt7986-xhci
mediatek,mtk-xhci
mediatek,mt7986
mediatek,generic-tphy-v2
mediatek,clk-bring-up
mediatek,mt7986-audio
mediatek,mt7986-rng
mediatek,mt7623-rng
mediatek,mt7986-ice_debug
mediatek,mt2701-ice_debug
mediatek,mt7986-efuse
mediatek,efuse
mediatek,reserved-memory
mediatek,mt7986-wm8960-machine
compatible
mediatek,auxadc
mediatek,apmixedsys
mediatek,pull-down-adv
mediatek,pull-up-adv
mediatek,ethsys
mediatek,sgmiisys
mediatek,mtd-eeprom
mediatek,platform
mediatek,audio-codec
