I think FreeBSD support for Mediatek Filogic routers would be awesome

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kriptomahsun

Those Filogic routers are awesome. Don't want to put together an raspberry pi it's a lot of hard work and boring. Why can't we have Mediatek Filogic support on BSD?
 
I looked it up, and the Filogic 880 was the first search.
ARM Cortex A-73 CPU - should be doable
USXGMII 10G Ethernet - Would require the vendor to write drivers, or provide open source drivers that could be modified to work with FreeBSD. Being an AMD product, there may exist open source specifications or drivers that could be ported
Mediatek NPU for QoS, etc - would need special instructions written for FreeBSD to take advantage of, either by Mediatek, or if they have open sourced the specifications, someone with the knowledge and skill to write that into the FreeBSD code.
Wi-Fi 7 connectivity - Looks like some work is being done to support the Mediatek Wi-Fi chip, see:
github.com

Support the MediaTek Wireless cards · Issue #66 · FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop

User Story As a user, I want to use the MediaTek wireless card included in my Framework laptop so that I don't have to purchase a separate USB wireless adaptor. Implementation Notes The mt76 wirele...
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Even if all the specifications for the hardware were open to develop on, making an OS work with specific hardware is not trivial. As is the case with most hardware appliances, there would almost certainly need to be a commercial incentive to put in the required work to use this hardware with a FreeBSD-based router OS. Someone like Juniper for their proprietary OS, or if NetGate decided they wanted to offer pfSense boxes with this hardware.
 
kriptomahsun said:
Those Filogic routers are awesome.
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How exactly?

Explicit documentation from Chinese SoC manufactures is a pipe dream; which is a deal breaker. Also, who's to say they're even honest with what their documentation describes? Instead of hardware specs, try selecting a manufacture you can trust, and one with better transparency of their hardware. There's a reason why Raspbrerry PI is so popular.
 
there is chinese documentation from allwinner / rockchip probably mediatek and others
i have several rockchip and allwinner manuals
the chinese docs might not be excellent but they exists
 
kriptomahsun said:
Don't want to put together an raspberry pi it's a lot of hard work and boring. Why can't we have Mediatek Filogic support on BSD?
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You think installing FreeBSD on one of those devices would be plug and play? How do you expect "installing" FreeBSD on an embedded device would work?
 
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