On 2023-08-29, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> On 10 Jun 2023-06-10 Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> wrote:
>> On 2023-06-10, Bernhard wrote:
>> > I'm interested in the Router BANANA Pi R3 from Sinovoip:
>> > https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R3
>> >
>> > This Banana Pi has MediaTek MT7986 (Filogic 830).

There are now two board configs in u-boot 2024.01 that might be
relevent:

configs/mt7986a_bpir3_emmc_defconfig  configs/mt7986a_bpir3_sd_defconfig

>> I cannot say what it will take to support it in debian for sure...
>> ...
>> The other main thing is to check what support is needed in the linux
>> kernel...
>
> The good news is that it appears to be supported in the upstream kernel.
...
> I have a script which helps with identifying which kernel modules would be 
> needed based on the "compatible" strings in the dts file and running it on 
> the 
> mt7986a-bananapi-bpi-r3.dts revealed 1 missing component ... but a rather 
> important one, which AFAICT is related to ARCH_MEDIATEK not being enabled.

CONFIG_ARCH_MEDIATEK is now enabled in the Debian kernel configuration,
although there are probably still other kernel configurations needed.

Is this script available anywhere? :)


Still outstanding is arm-trusted-firmwawre, only mediatek 81xx platforms
so far:

plat/mediatek/mt8173/  plat/mediatek/mt8186/  plat/mediatek/mt8192/
plat/mediatek/mt8183/  plat/mediatek/mt8188/  plat/mediatek/mt8195/

live well,
  vagrant

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