BananaPi R2 (.csc mt7623 as new boardfamily)
Proposal to introduce a new BOARDFAMILY based on MT7623n SoCs. The only (widely) available board currently is the BananaPi R2 build by Sinovoip. I 'tried' to clean and split their BSP into different repos to make it usable for armbians Buildscript. The 'initial' work is done and built images boot up (with some additional work).
(found one on http://www.banana-pi.org/r2.html - hidden in the 'gallery photos' which looks like the revision I have)
Some specs (an
some thoughts when going over this...
https://github.com/objelf/linux-lima/blob/73f8fb376942e1cb30f7fac1cc08620363a3db0b/arch/arm/configs/mediatek_v7_defconfig#L203
could be potential risky when giving it to endusers...
https://github.com/objelf/linux-lima/blob/73f8fb376942e1cb30f7fac1cc08620363a3db0b/arch/arm/configs/mediatek_v7_defconfig#L167
something the 'enduser' for sure not wants...
both might be helpful during development testing.. but potential