On 2022/05/01 12:27, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 11:13:13 +0200 > > From: "Johannes (krjdev) Krottmayer" <krj...@gmail.com> > > > > Hi, > > Hi Johannes, > > > > > Exists there an official support for this router? > > > > Here the official product page: > > https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/routers/rax200/ > > > > If there is no official support for the SoC and the devices, I will > > try to add support for it. I'm currently need only to get the Ethernet > > ports to work for my personal new CAT8 home network. :) > > > > Short technical data: > > Base architecture: Quad core Cortex-A53 running at 1.8Ghz > > SoC: Vendor Broadcom (Model currently unknown). Must open the > > router and investigate all hardware components and figure out the > > pins for the debug UART.
BCM4908: https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/Netgear_RAX200_(Nighthawk_Tri-Band_AX12) https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/PY318400434/4326262 > If that information is correct, then you'd have to basically start > from scratch. The only Broadcom SoC that OpenBSD supports is the one > found in the Raspberry Pi, which is almost certainly completely > unrelated to the Soc in your router. And at least with Raspberry Pi, the Pi foundation did significant work getting at least some documentation made available for the hardware they're using. > Broadcom doesn't publically release documentation for their SoCs. If > the SoC is supported in Linux you might learn enough about it to add > support for it. This isn't going to be an easy job. > > > My first goal is to add UART support. So I can communicate via the > > serial console. > > > > > I think this is not a great target for any open source OS, let alone one with fairly limited developer resources. With this device you'll be lucky if you even get OpenWRT working on it (and they have much broader hw support than OpenBSD). Even if it can be made to work, don't expect to get anywhere particularly close to performance seen with the vendor OS.
