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Banana Pi R3 — BPi-R3

Support level

Full support for all Infix enabled features including switched ethernet ports, WiFi,
and SFP interfaces. The board includes comprehensive hardware support for
MediaTek MT7986 SoC features.

Hardware features

The Banana Pi R3 is a high-performance networking board featuring:

  • MediaTek MT7986 ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core processor
  • 4x Gigabit LAN ports (lan1-lan4)
  • 1x Gigabit WAN port
  • 2x SFP ports (sfp1, sfp2) for fiber connectivity
  • Dual WiFi interfaces (wifi0 for 2.4GHz, wifi1 for 5GHz)
  • USB support
  • SD card boot support

Network configuration

The board comes preconfigured with:

  • 4 switched LAN ports for internal networking
  • Dedicated WAN port with DHCP client enabled
  • SFP ports for high-speed fiber connections
  • Dual WiFi interfaces for wireless connectivity

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@mattiaswal mattiaswal force-pushed the banana-pi branch 2 times, most recently from 173d85b to 0a7da9c Compare September 9, 2025 13:33
@mattiaswal mattiaswal added the ci:main Build default defconfig, not minimal label Sep 9, 2025
…chipsets

These should not appear in a generated factory-config or failure-config.
@mattiaswal mattiaswal force-pushed the banana-pi branch 3 times, most recently from ad8bef5 to 1992eb5 Compare September 14, 2025 08:42
@mattiaswal mattiaswal marked this pull request as ready for review September 14, 2025 08:42
@mattiaswal mattiaswal changed the title Banana pi Add support for Banana pi r3 Sep 14, 2025
@troglobit troglobit changed the title Add support for Banana pi r3 Add support for Banana Pi (BPi-R3) Sep 14, 2025
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Amazing work, thank you so much! Minor comments only.

The Banana Pi R3 is a high-performance networking board featuring:
- MediaTek MT7986 ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core processor
- 4x Gigabit LAN ports (lan1-lan4)
- 1x Gigabit WAN port
- 2x SFP ports (sfp1, sfp2) for fiber connectivity
- Dual WiFi interfaces (wifi0 for 2.4GHz, wifi1 for 5GHz)
- USB support
- SD card boot support
It is the chipset used on banana pi r3.
No eMMC support added yet, only SD card.
@mattiaswal mattiaswal merged commit 3fcb6a3 into main Sep 14, 2025
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@mattiaswal mattiaswal deleted the banana-pi branch September 14, 2025 12:56
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