im very interested in this router are there any hopes for there being support soon?
it has the same hardware as the nano
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So looks like the "mi wifi mini" firmware is compatible.
While looking at https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/xiaomi/mir3 and https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/xiaomi/mini, there're no instructions on how to write the LEDE firmware onto wifi 3 router. The regular "mini" instructions state:
If you find a line "OS1" go ahead with flashing: # mtd -r write <firmware-image you downloaded> OS1
There's no "OS1" partition on the mini 3 tho:
root@XiaoQiang:~# cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 08000000 00020000 "ALL"
mtd1: 00040000 00020000 "Bootloader"
mtd2: 00040000 00020000 "Config"
mtd3: 00040000 00020000 "Bdata"
mtd4: 00040000 00020000 "Factory"
mtd5: 00040000 00020000 "crash"
mtd6: 00040000 00020000 "crash_syslog"
mtd7: 00080000 00020000 "reserved0"
mtd8: 00400000 00020000 "kernel0"
mtd9: 00400000 00020000 "kernel1"
mtd10: 02000000 00020000 "rootfs0"
mtd11: 02000000 00020000 "rootfs1"
mtd12: 03600000 00020000 "overlay"
Do I run: mtd -r write <firmware-image you downloaded> rootfs1?
Or how can I find which partition to write LEDE firmware to?
I was very short on time and looks like wifi 3 uses NAND while wifi mini does not, so I ended up flashing Padavan's firmware.
Yes,it uses NAND.
That is only difference
Is there any plan to support this device?
By the looks of it it already does use OpenWRT, but it "calls home" to 2 Chinese domains, so I do not plan to use the original firmware.
For now it just sits in my network-bin box...
Looks like the partitions (or at least their names) are different too.
Yes,everything about flash memory is different.
That is only difference,unfortunately I do not know ho do make a proper DTS for it.
It would be great to have LEDE for it since it is great router
xiaomi router 3 flash lede must upgrade uboot,but no have supported nand flash uboot now.
if you use spi flash insted the nand flash ,it supported.
I'm build a nand flash firmware,but I'm not tested,because my router's nand uboot it's bad,
I'm used spi flash now.
Stupid question. The router apparently does run OpenWRT - I flashed "dev" version of the firmware and using ssh I've seen the file structure.
Now, how big of a rework would it be to take the mi wifi mini partition and "mix-and-match" it with the Xiaomi version?
I really do not want my home router to call home...
This PR for Mi Router 3G looks like it could be modified to also support R3
I have built LEDE images for R3,but I cant test them.
Instructions should be the following:
Installation through telnet/ssh:
copy lede-ramips-mt7621-mir3g-squashfs-kernel1.bin and lede-ramips-mt7621-mir3g-squashfs-rootfs0.bin to usb disk or wget it from LEDE download site to /tmp
switch to /extdisks/sda1/ (if copied to USB drive) or to /tmp if wgetted from LEDE download site
run: mtd write lede-ramips-mt7621-mir3g-squashfs-kernel1.bin kernel1
run: mtd write lede-ramips-mt7621-mir3g-squashfs-rootfs0.bin rootfs0
run: mtd erase kernel0
run: reboot
As always I am I no way responsible for any damage that can incurr
tried the image and did follow the commands. However boot not possible 
U-Boot 1.1.3 (Apr 15 2016 - 17:46:32)
Board: Ralink APSoC DRAM: 128 MB
Power on memory test. Memory size= 128 MB...OK!
relocate_code Pointer at: 87fb8000
enable ephy clock...done. rf reg 29 = 5
SSC disabled.
******************************
Software System Reset Occurred
******************************
!!! nand page size = 2048, addr len=4
..============================================
Ralink UBoot Version: 4.2.S.1
--------------------------------------------
ASIC 7620_MP (Port5<->None)
DRAM_CONF_FROM: Auto-detection
DRAM_TYPE: DDR2
DRAM component: 1024 Mbits
DRAM bus: 16 bit
Total memory: 128 MBytes
Flash component: NAND Flash
Date:Apr 15 2016 Time:17:46:32
============================================
icache: sets:512, ways:4, linesz:32 ,total:65536
dcache: sets:256, ways:4, linesz:32 ,total:32768
##### The CPU freq = 580 MHZ ####
estimate memory size =128 Mbytes
Please choose the operation:
1: Load system code to SDRAM via TFTP.
2: Load system code then write to Flash via TFTP.
3: Boot system code via Flash (default).
4: Entr boot command line interface.
9: Load Boot Loader code then write to Flash via TFTP.
3: System Boot system code via Flash.
Booting System 2
..ranand_erase_write: offs:40000, count:20000
.Done!
done
## Booting image at bc600000 ...
Image Name: MIPS LEDE Linux-4.9.44
Image Type: MIPS Linux Kernel Image (lzma compressed)
Data Size: 1351940 Bytes = 1.3 MB
Load Address: 80000000
Entry Point: 80000000
..................... Verifying Checksum ... OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
commandline uart_en=0 factory_mode=0 mem=128m
No initrd
## Transferring control to Linux (at address 80000000) ...
## Giving linux memsize in MB, 128
Starting kernel ...
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.9.44 (robimarko@Builder) (gcc version 5.4.0 (LEDE GCC 5.4.0 r4710-34b5230) ) #0 Fri Aug 18 13:02:29 2017
[ 0.000000] Board has DDR2
[ 0.000000] Analog PMU set to hw control
[ 0.000000] Digital PMU set to hw control
[ 0.000000] SoC Type: MediaTek MT7620A ver:2 eco:6
[ 0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[ 0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019650 (MIPS 24KEc)
[ 0.000000] MIPS: machine is Xiaomi MiWiFi R3
[ 0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] memory: 08000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, PIPT, no aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=0007e000
[ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=0007e000
[ 0.000000] Memory: 125404K/131072K available (3139K kernel code, 157K rwdata, 752K rodata, 168K init, 216K bss, 5668K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:256
[ 0.000000] CPU Clock: 580MHz
[ 0.000000] clocksource: systick: mask: 0xffff max_cycles: 0xffff, max_idle_ns: 583261500 ns
[ 0.000000] systick: enable autosleep mode
[ 0.000000] systick: running - mult: 214748, shift: 32
[ 0.000000] clocksource: MIPS: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 6590553264 ns
[ 0.000011] sched_clock: 32 bits at 290MHz, resolution 3ns, wraps every 7405115902ns
[ 0.007577] Calibrating delay loop... 385.84 BogoMIPS (lpj=1929216)
[ 0.070067] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.074685] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.081058] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.094793] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 0.104342] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[ 0.110298] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.116000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.381764] PCI host bridge /pcie@10140000 ranges:
[ 0.386378] MEM 0x0000000020000000..0x000000002fffffff
[ 0.391430] IO 0x0000000010160000..0x000000001016ffff
[ 0.410089] rt2880_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 24 gpios
[ 0.415484] rt2880_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 24 irq handlers
[ 0.421892] rt2880_gpio 10000638.gpio: registering 16 gpios
[ 0.427270] rt2880_gpio 10000638.gpio: registering 16 irq handlers
[ 0.433606] rt2880_gpio 10000660.gpio: registering 32 gpios
[ 0.43......... Verifying Checksum ... OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
commandline uart_en=0 factory_mode=0 mem=128m
No initrd
## Transferring control to Linux (at address 80000000) ...
## Giving linux memsize in MB, 128
Starting kernel ...
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.9.44 (robimarko@Builder) (gcc version 5.4.0 (LEDE GCC 5.4.0 r4710-34b5230) ) #0 Fri Aug 18 13:02:29 2017
[ 0.000000] Board has DDR2
[ 0.000000] Analog PMU set to hw control
[ 0.000000] Digital PMU set to hw control
[ 0.000000] SoC Type: MediaTek MT7620A ver:2 eco:6
[ 0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[ 0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019650 (MIPS 24KEc)
[ 0.000000] MIPS: machine is Xiaomi MiWiFi R3
[ 0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] memory: 08000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, PIPT, no aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=0007e000
[ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=0007e000
[ 0.000000] Memory: 125404K/131072K available (3139K kernel code, 157K rwdata, 752K rodata, 168K init, 216K bss, 5668K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:256
[ 0.000000] CPU Clock: 580MHz
[ 0.000000] clocksource: systick: mask: 0xffff max_cycles: 0xffff, max_idle_ns: 583261500 ns
[ 0.000000] systick: enable autosleep mode
[ 0.000000] systick: running - mult: 214748, shift: 32
[ 0.000000] clocksource: MIPS: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 6590553264 ns
[ 0.000011] sched_clock: 32 bits at 290MHz, resolution 3ns, wraps every 7405115902ns
[ 0.007577] Calibrating delay loop... 385.84 BogoMIPS (lpj=1929216)
[ 0.070068] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.074687] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.081060] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.094795] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 0.104345] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[ 0.110300] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.116002] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.381766] PCI host bridge /pcie@10140000 ranges:
[ 0.386381] MEM 0x0000000020000000..0x000000002fffffff
[ 0.391433] IO 0x0000000010160000..0x000000001016ffff
[ 0.410092] rt2880_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 24 gpios
[ 0.415487] rt2880_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 24 irq handlers
[ 0.421895] rt2880_gpio 10000638.gpio: registering 16 gpios
[ 0.427273] rt2880_gpio 10000638.gpio: registering 16 irq handlers
[ 0.433609] rt2880_gpio 10000660.gpio: registering 32 gpios
[ 0.438983] rt2880_gpio 10000660.gpio: registering 32 irq handlers
[ 0.445839] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[ 0.449765] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x20000000-0x2fffffff]
[ 0.456475] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0xffffffff]
[ 0.462182] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x0]
[ 0.468786] pci_bus 0000:00: No busn resource found for root bus, will use [bus 00-ff]
[ 0.476938] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring
[ 0.485464] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: no space for [mem size 0x80000000]
[ 0.491832] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: failed to assign [mem size 0x80000000]
[ 0.498639] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 8: assigned [mem 0x20000000-0x200fffff]
[ 0.505188] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 9: assigned [mem 0x20100000-0x201fffff pref]
[ 0.512216] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 1: assigned [mem 0x20200000-0x2020ffff]
[ 0.518803] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x20000000-0x200fffff 64bit]
[ 0.525923] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0x20100000-0x2010ffff pref]
[ 0.532909] pci 0000:00:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
[ 0.537741] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge window [mem 0x20000000-0x200fffff]
[ 0.544322] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge window [mem 0x20100000-0x201fffff pref]
[ 0.551365] pci 0000:00:00.0: card - bus=0x0, slot = 0x0 irq=0
[ 0.557005] pci 0000:01:00.0: card - bus=0x1, slot = 0x0 irq=4
[ 0.566367] clocksource: Switched to clocksource systick
[ 0.572826] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.577923] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.584648] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.590873] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[ 0.597107] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.602731] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.609121] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.615647] rt-timer 10000100.timer: maximum frequency is 1220Hz
[ 0.622335] Crashlog allocated RAM at address 0x3f00000
[ 0.628703] workingset: timestamp_bits=30 max_order=15 bucket_order=0
[ 0.643149] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 0.648797] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.667118] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.670863] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 0.676070] ralink-usb-phy usbphy: invalid resource
[ 0.681434] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[ 0.688704] console [ttyS0] disabled
[ 0.692158] 10000c00.uartlite: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x10000c00 (irq = 20, base_baud = 2500000) is a Palmchip BK-3103
[ 0.701833] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.701833] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.708867] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 0.708867] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 0.718835] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[ 0.728868] gsw: setting port4 to ephy mode
[ 0.733187] mtk_soc_eth 10100000.ethernet eth0 (uninitialized): port 4 link up (100Mbps/Full duplex)
[ 0.742590] mtk_soc_eth 10100000.ethernet: generated random MAC address 02:8e:40:99:1a:0a
[ 0.751027] mtk_soc_eth 10100000.ethernet: loaded mt7620 driver
[ 0.757944] mtk_soc_eth 10100000.ethernet eth0: mediatek frame engine at 0xb0100000, irq 5
[ 0.766991] rt2880_wdt 10000120.watchdog: Initialized
[ 0.773287] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 0.780964] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 0.785564] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 0.792607] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[ 0.800314] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[ 0.808849] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 0.818504] Rebooting in 1 seconds..used commands:
root@XiaoQiang:/tmp# mtd write lede-ramips-mt7620-miwifi-r3-squashfs-kernel1.bin kernel1
Unlocking kernel1 ...
Writing from lede-ramips-mt7620-miwifi-r3-squashfs-kernel1.bin to kernel1 ...
root@XiaoQiang:/tmp# mtd write lede-ramips-mt7620-miwifi-r3-squashfs-rootfs0.bin rootfs0
Unlocking rootfs0 ...
Writing from lede-ramips-mt7620-miwifi-r3-squashfs-rootfs0.bin to rootfs0 ...
root@XiaoQiang:/tmp# mtd erase kernel0
Unlocking kernel0 ...
Erasing kernel0 ...
root@XiaoQiang:/tmp# reboot
@dgiese I will look into the log today and try to fix it.
Can you try booting kernel image and then sysupgrading?
Cannot do anything at the moment. As Xiaomi disables the console write and the reset button for recovery does not work, i have to wait a few day until i get access to a nand flasher.
Yeah,I completelly forgot that they disable console by default
Your nand driver is not starting, show me DTS that you have made
To enable console run these commands while in u-boot
setenv uart_en 1
saveenv
You can also restore from tftp procedure
You can find my R3 branch here:
and DTS is here:
You've forgot & here, should be &nand
And you should put it outside of main brackets, it's a seldom node, not within any other, like this one
Put that &nand node just before &gpio0