Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:36 am
Only x86 ROS includes variety of drivers. All other platforms generally only include drivers needed by hardware on that specific platform and Mikrotik hardware. Nothing else.
Unless Mikrotik decides to include the driver/kernel module in MIPSBE build, it's not going to work. It's same with any other devices, for example I tried mining riser to plug Intel network card into board with mini-PCIe slot. It worked about same as you describe: device shows in PCI device list, but that's all. No drivers, no support, no fun.
On MIPSBE it's understandable as Mikrotik must be trying really hard to still fit everything into 16MBs of flash some devices have... that said extra package "additional drivers" with all the good stuff wouldn't be that hard to make. Build all the usual kernel modules, pack it up in separate ROS package, with no support and throw it out to the community. We would quickly figure out what works and what doesn't, so later there could be two packages: untested and tested...