Unifi edgerouter4 and cavium OCTEON III

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#1

Hi guys,

I have a question about the new unifi edgerouter4 (or 6)

they use the CPU: CaviumCN7130 @1GHz Octeon III (Quad Core MIPS64)

And after looking for more informations, i saw this article. (from 2015)

https://www.cavium.com/Cavium-Delivers-Optimized-OpenWRT-On-OCTEON-III-To-Accelerate-Retail-SMB-Router-Time-To-Market.html

how can we add support for octeon III ? Did someone know about something ?

cheers

#2

At that price why aren't you looking at ARM instead?

#3

If so, I'd like support for the Octeon on the Actiontec MR424WR's, I have a Rev. F device ready for testing.

#4

Except that your device uses Octeon+ which the same as the EdgeRouter Lite which is supported.

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#5

You're also missing drivers such as network, looks like they gave up after sending in 12 (!) versions.

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/935735/
https://lwn.net/Articles/758591/

#6

I have tested EdgeRouter 4 briefly with the mainline kernel (v4.19), and the Ethernet is supported by the octeon-ethernet staging driver (same as used for EdgeRouter Lite). The proposed new OCTEON III ethernet driver is for the "bigger" OCTEON III SoCs.

#7

Hi aakosin

Any pointers on using openwrt on edgerouter 4, I cannot find any documentation for the ER4, only the ERL and ERX