xx230v is Arm CPU, this route is Mips CPU, and recently added to kernel and openwrt, I have here gpl code to brazilian version and actuality is not much working, currently it only has PCI and usb working on this platform, but they share a lot of similarity with the en7523 family, even the en7523 still does not have a functional network switch
Yes, I saw your pull request. Thanks for your post. I was wondering how you managed to get the gpl code for xx230v. I am trying to reach out to TP link for the GPL things.
This is a great effort. Something is always better than nothing. Thanks your effort on this.
Yeah, that is a bummer. There is not much resources on the EcoNET chips.
I recently asked TP-Link for the GPL for three devices xx230v, xx530v v1 and v2, these first two are on my server, the xx530v v2 I still haven't had a response.
But before that I had found the xx230v at TP-Link Canada, someone had probably already requested it from them at some point
I have two routers with Econet Mips, Mitrastar GPT-2741GNAC-N1 and GPT-2731GN2A4P, but I can only use one, one of them has the RX pin burned out on the CPU's UART, but they are very similar, the only difference is the HPNA between them, and I would also never be able to get the GPL from these Mitrastar devices
I'm going to lose xPON (same for xc220) because there's still no public driver to add to the kernel, and I found very little in the GPLs and it doesn't say much about how xPON works
I also had an xc220 but it was from my ISP, they took it back, I can even buy another one for the beginning of 2026, I didn't have internal access before that
Honestly, XC220 is getting older. It even do not have ax support as you know.
I too observe the same. Funny thing, almost an year ago - I sent a email to Airoha for the datasheet for the EN7528 - which is in my ISP provieded sercomm GPON ONT. As always, no reponse. I can see something from Airoha been added to the mainline kernel.
I was surfing around about the EcoNET as a company - There was a weird mergers of econet and another company called treandchip (I think). All became Airoha which as you might know a subsidary of mediatek.
I think only way to get the device to work with openwrt is to reverse engineer the binarnies
Well, we have some GPL from Airoha/Econet, so we have a base, some datasheets are there, we have enough code to add to Upstream, but we had few devices from other companies to test, we only had a development board
You are right, Econet and Trendchip were merged into Airoha, and Airoha is a subsidiary of Mediatek, so a lot of Mediatek stuff is compatible with Econet/Airoha. Everything is from the same company currently, but the Arm SoC is named Airoha and the Mips SoC is named Econet, but they all share the same drivers and chips
Ohh, Got it. Eventhought we can get few parts working on these chips. I think there was never been an effort for optical interfaces.
Thanks for sharing the GPL code for the brazilian version. I believe there is no much differences between geogarphical location at least for this hardware. Althought, I request TP link to share for Indain version which I have. BTW, I do not expected any thing new from this.
I am going to deploy it off-site to replace a ISP’s Router. So, I will not be poking around it much for the time being. May be I would buy a TP-Link XX530v but it is quite pricy at my country. I am planning to use a GPON SFP - G010s-p https://hack-gpon.org/ont-nokia-g-010s-p/ I have a couple of these SFP modules and a media converter. I have configured it to work with ethernet and currently working on VoIP things.
Something interesting is that the xx530v v1 is the same hardware as the xx230v with just different wireless, I will buy it when I can so I can also add it to Openwrt later, I still haven't gotten the GPL for the xx530v v2, I'm waiting for TP-Link to send it, or when I can get it too.
It's usually some wireless adjustment or some chips changed, there isn't much difference
I think you could help by trying to request GPL sources from Ubiquity and I am sure @cjd might be interested in those sources even if this particular chip might not be in his focus. If you would like to gather more info such as serial pinout, boot log, more photos, etc, I suggest using a separate thread, because this thread is about other devices.
- If you got it, I would like to have it too.
