Support for NanoPi M4 / Neo4

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Hello

I wanted to ask you if it was planed to support friendlyarm's NanoPi M4 / Neo4, in the near future???
https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=234
https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=241

Both have good CPU performances (2x A72 + 4x A53), USB 3 and 2 PCIe v1 lane and up to 4GB Ram, I would really appreciate using it when en USB 3.0 LTE modem.

(Actually, the hardware is even more interesting than an Turris Mox, which is compatible Openwrt
https://mox.turris.cz/en/overview/ )

Does anyone has a compatible built for it?

Thank you

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Looks like the Neo series has been discussed (or at least similar boards) recently https://forum.openwrt.org/search?q=Nanopi though the specific board isn't listed as supported at https://openwrt.org/toh/start?dataflt[Model*~]=Nano&dataflt[Brand*~]=FriendlyElec

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Indeed.

Let's try with a Neo or Neo2 first. The compatible image is already available but I need to compile it myself to add rooter. But I don't really know how to do it.

Within the menuconfig, I can't see any target system/sub target compatible with an Allwinner H3/H5 (Neo and Neo2).
Same for the NanoPi M4 and it's RK3399 Soc (A72 & A53).
I read this on the forum:

The aarch64_armv8-a package is available here:

Should I add it to the openwrt source files before launching the menuconfig???

Thank you!

EDIT:
OK it seems to work well on a NanoPi Neo. But how do they build the image to make it compatible????

EDIT2:
Oh ok, it's in the "Target profile".

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Looks like you are figuring thing out and making progress.

I don't know if you seen it, but https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/build-system/start may be helpful with some of the challenges of an unfamiliar build system.

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:no_mouth:

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"Please re-run with -j1 V=s"

make V=s

(copy-paste of the terminal output is preferred, using the </> button for preformatted rendering)

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Will let it run overnight, thank you.

Sorry for the screenshot, but although I installed open-vm-tools, the copy-past from/to the VM doesn't work yet (Have to take a look at it tomorrow)

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Well, I got rid of most of the compiling errors, except one, that is related to rOOter:

* satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for ext-rooter-basic:
*     luci-proto-3g
*     luci
*     luci-theme-boostrap
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package ext-rooter-basic.

In the menuconfig I can only find a "luci-theme-darkmatter" but no "luci-theme-boostrap"
The "luci-proto-3x" is checked (mandatory) in the rooter config sub-menu.

edit:

Well, just disabled the ext-rooter-basic. Hope I won't need it to make the USB LTE modem to work.

edit2:
I forgot to update and install the feeds...
Have to start over again...

edit3:
ok seems to work :slight_smile:

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Well, back to the original question.
I don't have the necessary knowledge, but would it take a lot of work/time to make openWRT to support a NanoPi M4/Neo4 (Actually I need that board because of the USB 3 and PCIe port)?

I don't mind to pay a little bit for it.

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Not sure if you're still interested in this, but I managed to patch support for the M4 and generate a snapshot based image that boots on my board if you are. Currently working on the pull request to get the patch incorporated into the main project.

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Is there nano pi m4 openwrt firmware, how can I make one for use