This section is not coming from Collabora, it’s just some information I got from a few trustee third parties and some speculation. It should be taken with a grain of salt, and I’ll update it if I get feedback from Rockchip or companies using RK3588. I was told Rockchip no longer considers RK3588 to be an “open source” chip. In practice, that means Rockchip no longer contributes RK3588 code to open-source projects (not sure when the TF-A code mentioned above was released) and they also decided not to sell RK3588 directly to SBC vendors. The latter is not a big issue, since they may be able to source chips from resellers, but it may increase prices. You may also have read that Joshua Riek who worked on Ubuntu Rockchip decided to take a break. While the reason given is mostly burnout and lack of funding, what we are discussing here may potentially explain why he was not able to get access to the Rockchip SDK.
Has anyone encountered intermittent XHR timeout in luci? I have been getting it even when I was on friendlyWRT. Flashed RC4 last night and I am still having that issue. No ping drops to the device but somehow getting that XHR timeout issues. I dont see anything suspect in the logs as well
already have uhttpd connection reuse set to 0. But
From another post I saw someone quoted that RockChip has upstreamed another patch about 10 days ago, so it doesn't look like they are stopping open source?
Are any proprietary BLOBs required for the r6s or is everything available as open source?
In any case, the two 2.5 GBe NICs are supported as OpenSource.
Only talking about the 2x2.5GbE NIC here means nothing.
The NICs are using PCI-E from RK3588, so the first thing is to find a driver to enable PCI-E driver otherwise nothing will work, folks are still working hard to get things open source as much as possible but it's not there yet (quite a number of devices usable but "not everything")
I plan to use r6s between isp and my current router orbi rbk50 which would be used as AP once setup is done.
Would openwrt provide traffic/bandwidth stats for each device connected to my orbi or it would show stats on just at orbi level? I need to monitor traffic on each wireless device as well.
Vnstat monitors traffic at the interface level and can display usage per hour, per day, and per month. Nlbwmon monitors traffic per MAC address but only displays charts per “accounting period”. The accounting period defaults to monthly, but is reconfigurable.
Assuming orbi is operating in ap mode, openwrt would show per client; you could think of the ap as a switch in this setup where it just provides physical layer connectivity (maybe L2 as well…it’s been a while). Openwrt would be issuing IP addresses and in turn be aware of all MAC addresses. If the orbi is setup to operate as a router or otherwise put its devices behind a NAT it would likely hide the downstream devices connected to it (I’d avoid this).
