I’m doing a preliminary investigation on wither the RB962 hAP ac (https://routerboard.com/RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT) can run OpenWRT. The OpenWRT hardware list doesn’t include the RB962, and nobody seems to have mentioned it anywhere yet, which makes me wonder whether anyone has had time or the inclination to try.
I also see from http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Metarouter that in theory it should work, however the referred patch (see building OpenWRT) is against an ancient version of OpenWRT, and so I’m a little wary of that page’s correctness.
So I was wondering:
Does anyone know whether there is something fundamental about the RB962 that would stop OpenWRT from working on it?
Has anyone tried OpenWRT on the RB962?
Does anyone have any suggestions on whether an existing patch might work for the RB962? (e.g. the RB951 patch?).
If not, I assume we’ll have to take an existing RB patch and modify it.
The only thing that I’m not sure if it has drivers or how it’s connected it’s the SFP port (e.g. does it use i2c? Which driver? Which register base address)
For other stuff, you can try booting an initramfs kernel while looking at a 3v3 serial port. If I were you I’d start with a .dts from an archer c7 and tweak it until things work.
Probably best if you ask on OpenWRT or LEDE project forums, or hang around in their IRC while doing the porting.
Are you looking at running OpenWRT on a bare metal or in the Metarouter? Please clarify.
Metarouter is a virtual machine running atop RouterOS, and the patch you’re referring to won’t help you if your intent is to run OpenWRT straight on RB962 instead of the RouterOS.