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Banana Pi BPI-M7 router board now available for $165 (RK3588 processor, dual 2.5 Gb Ethernet, WiFi 6 and BT 5.2) (liliputing.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does this look like a decent starting point for a first router build?

Cross posted from: https://lemux.minnix.dev/post/204890

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How is the software support? It seems like you could alternatively get a nice quad-core x86 Intel box with a handful of 2.5G ports off of AliExpress for around $120(you'd have to bring your own RAM and SSD in those cases though) and enjoy full Ubuntu/OpenWrt support.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

According to the official website, it will officially have Android 12.0, Debian 11 and Buildroot support and will unofficially support Armbian, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04 and Kylin OS.

As for x86, I'd really like to try and avoid it for a router.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As for x86, I’d really like to try and avoid it for a router.

Why? (genuine question)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

x86_64 is inefficient and insecure

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Is this board using FOSS RISC-V with open schematics? If not, there's very good reason to suspect it too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know RISC-V routers were a thing. There's OPNSense support for RISC-V?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There isn't. I was asking if the Banana Pi used RISC-V

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

It's ARM

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also, I trust ARM (almost definitely backdoor'd) over x86_64 (confirmed backdoor'd)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're both with backdoors how do you trust either?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don't trust either, I'm just saying I trust ARM more. English is confusing and trust can be both boolean and float at the same time

ARM trust: 0.2 (false)

x86 trust: 0.1 (false)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

RK3855 = 4x Cortex-A76 + 4x Cortex-A55