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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 1 remains after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds Banana Pi R3 Mini support for MT7986. The change includes Linux 6.18 and device-tree support, U-Boot integration, Airoha PHY drivers, eMMC boot handling, firmware installation, stable MAC generation, and PHY LED services. ChangesBanana Pi R3 Mini platform
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant BuildSystem
participant UBoot
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BuildSystem->>UBoot: Build Banana Pi R3 Mini artifacts
BuildSystem->>EMMC: Write FIP and GPT
UBoot->>EMMC: Scan distro boot partitions
Linux->>PHY: Initialize EN8811H
PHY->>EMMC: Read PHY firmware from boot1
PHY-->>Linux: Report link state and speed
Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This change adds support for a new, still work-in-progress Banana Pi R3 Mini board, including its bootloader, PHY, and kernel pieces. It does not alter behavior for existing boards, and the earlier issues in the PHY driver and eMMC boot handling have been corrected. NVMe support on this board remains untested, which is the only notable gap. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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config/boards/bananapir3mini.wip (1)
106-109: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRestore
force_roif a write fails.The script runs with
set -e. If eitherddfails, the script exits before Line 109 runs. The eMMC boot1 partition then stays writable until the next reboot. Use a trap to restore the flag on every exit path.♻️ Proposed fix
echo 0 > "${force_ro}" + trap 'echo 1 > "${force_ro}" 2>/dev/null || true' EXIT dd if="${dm}" of="${dev}" bs=16384 count=1 conv=fsync status=none dd if="${dsp}" of="${dev}" bs=16384 seek=1 conv=fsync status=none - echo 1 > "${force_ro}" echo "Airoha EN8811H firmware written to ${dev}"🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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435-436: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winReconsider the legacy userspace firmware and uevent helpers.
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER=ywithCONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug"makes the kernel fork a helper for every uevent. Armbian images use systemd and udev, and/sbin/hotplugdoes not exist, so each fork fails.
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK=ymakes every failed direct firmware load wait for the userspace helper timeout instead of failing immediately. The board loads the Airoha firmware from/lib/firmware, so the fallback path adds only delay.Disable all four options unless a driver on this board needs them.
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-CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER=y -CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug" CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_SAFE=y -CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y -CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK=yRegenerate the file after the change, as required by the retrieved learning: kernel config files under
config/kernel/must be minimal overlays regenerated with./compile.sh rewrite-kernel-config BOARD=bananapir3mini BRANCH=current.Also applies to: 440-441
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`@patch/u-boot/u-boot-filogic-mt7986/160-net-phy-add-support-for-Airoha-ethernet-PHY-driver.patch`:
- Around line 1480-1487: Check the return value of the restoring
mmc_set_part_conf call in the firmware-loading flow, and print a clear error
message if restoring the eMMC boot configuration fails. Preserve the existing
firmware read failure cleanup and return behavior, while ensuring the restore
failure is visible before continuing.
- Around line 1681-1684: In the PHY negotiation logic after reading MII_CTRL1000
into advgb, check advgb for a negative error result instead of checking adv.
Return advgb immediately on failure before computing common_adv_gb, preserving
normal negotiation handling for successful reads.
- Around line 614-618: Initialize GPHY_RG_1E_017.DATA with the successfully read
reg_value before modifying da_tx_i2mpb_b_tbt, matching the existing 0x12
register handling and preserving all other bits when airoha_cl45_write is
called.
- Around line 63-64: Update the callers of eth_phy_reset to resolve and pass the
UCLASS_ETH_PHY udevice associated with the PHY node, rather than using
phydev->dev (the MAC device). Ensure both reset calls provide the PHY device
whose private data is struct eth_phy_device_priv.
In `@patch/u-boot/u-boot-filogic-mt7986/501-add-bpi-r3-mini-board-target.patch`:
- Line 158: Update the board device-tree property from airoha,pnswap-rx to the
airoha,rx-pol-reverse name read by the U-Boot EN8811H driver, while leaving the
Linux-side binding unchanged.
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In `@config/boards/bananapir3mini.wip`:
- Around line 106-109: Update the boot1 write sequence around force_ro and the
two dd commands to install an exit trap that restores force_ro to 1 on every
exit path, including failures under set -e; retain the normal write flow and
ensure the trap is cleaned up or handled appropriately after successful
completion.
In `@config/kernel/linux-filogic-mt7986-current.config`:
- Around line 435-436: Disable the legacy uevent and firmware userspace helper
options in the kernel configuration: set CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER,
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH, CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, and
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK to disabled or remove them from the
minimal overlay. Regenerate the configuration using the project’s kernel-config
rewrite flow so the overlay remains minimal.
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- Around line 1593-1599: Update en8811h_startup so the MD32 firmware-ready
timeout path returns an error instead of 0 after logging initialization failure,
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I need more time to debug why uboot see nvme drive and linux not, i converted the PR to a draft, same issue here SuperKali/BananaWRT#112 |
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MT7986 ignores BOARD_BGA and caps memory at 512MB on the DDR3 path, so it needs a TF-A target of its own, and it tracks a different U-Boot release than the rest of the family. Boards that keep BL2 in an eMMC boot partition cannot pull it back out of the image, so export the raw blobs beside it. Signed-off-by: SuperKali <hello@superkali.me>
MT7986 ships an empty board config header, so boards fall back to whatever bootcmd the environment happens to hold. Add a distro boot environment scanning USB, NVMe and eMMC, plus a board device tree that describes the PCIe Gen3 controller missing from the SoC dtsi. Signed-off-by: SuperKali <hello@superkali.me>
Mainline keeps the eMMC node disabled and never muxes the MDIO pair the two Airoha PHYs sit behind. It also expects Wi-Fi calibration data that this board stores nowhere, and the default the driver falls back to resets the SoC as soon as the radio comes up. Signed-off-by: SuperKali <hello@superkali.me>
MT7986A router board with 2GB DDR4, 8GB eMMC, two 2.5GbE ports behind Airoha EN8811H PHYs and an M.2 slot. BL2 sits in the eMMC boot0 hardware partition, so the board carries its own write_uboot_platform and the helpers for PHY firmware, stable MAC addresses and the port LEDs. Signed-off-by: SuperKali <hello@superkali.me>
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Adds the Banana Pi R3 Mini, a MediaTek MT7986A router board with 2GB DDR4, 8GB eMMC, two 2.5GbE ports behind Airoha EN8811H PHYs and an M.2 slot. It goes in as
.wipuntil the maintainer entry and the board images are in place.The filogic family gets an
mt7986case with a TF-A target of its own, since the SoC ignoresBOARD_BGAand needs DDR4 where the DDR3 path caps memory at 512MB. It also tracks a different U-Boot release than the rest of the family. BL2 has to go into the eMMC boot0 hardware partition, which no disk image can describe, so the family now exports the raw bootloader blobs beside the image.How Has This Been Tested?
Built and booted on hardware,
armbianmonitor -u: https://paste.armbian.com/towomucaxiInstalling
Two pieces sit outside any filesystem and cannot travel inside the image, so they are written once by hand. The build leaves them beside the image as
*.bl2.imgand*.fip.bin.The starting point is the board as it ships, running OpenWrt or ImmortalWrt from eMMC.
Write the image to a USB stick with Armbian Imager.
Copy
*.bl2.imgand*.fip.binonto the board, then put the Armbian bootloader over the vendor one:Plug the stick in and reboot. U-Boot scans USB first, so Armbian starts from the stick.
Move it to eMMC:
None of this needs a serial console unless something goes wrong. Ethernet and SSH are up the whole way.
If the board will not boot
SPI-NAND is not a fallback here. The BootROM on the unit I tested refuses to boot from it and halts, so eMMC is the only bootable medium and a bad FIP leaves no prompt to type into.
The way back is UART download mode.
mtk_uartbootpushes a RAM-resident BL2 and a FIP down the serial port, and the board reaches a U-Boot prompt without reading eMMC at all, which is enough to rewrite both. That BL2 comes out of the same TF-A tree the family already builds:Keep a serial adapter within reach before writing anything to boot0.
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