Getting Started with R2

Introduction

The Banana Pi R2 is a router based development board, which can run on a variety of open source operating systems including OpenWrt, Android, and Bananian. It has 4 Gigabit LAN ports, 1 Gigabit WAN, and 300Mbs wireless N capabilities.

Key Features

• MediaTek MT7623N, Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7
• Mali 450 MP4 GPU
• 2G DDR3 SDRAM
• Mini PCIE interface
• SATA interface
• 4x Gigabit LAN 1x Gigabit WAN

Hardware

Development

Let's get start to develop on BPI-R2, see amazing things happen.

Basic Development

Prepare to develop

 1.Prepare 16G/above TF card, USB-Serial interface, Ubuntu System

 2.Using your USB-Serial Connect debug console on R2

Load your first image on R2

 1.You could download latest image from our forum
 * Here is the example image link: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-r2-new-image-release-ubuntu-16-04-v1-3-2018-3-30/5293

 2.Install bpi-tools on your Ubuntu
 * apt-get install pv
 * curl -sL https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/bpi-tools/raw/master/bpi-tools | sudo -E bash
 

 3.After you download the image, insert your TF card into your Ubuntu
 * Execute "bpi-copy xxx.img /dev/sdx" to install image on your TF card.

 4.After step 3, then you can insert your TF card into R2, and press power button for around 10s to setup R2.

Build your own image on R2

Ubuntu

 1. Clone Bsp project from Github
 Execute "git clone [email protected]:BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-R2-bsp.git" 

 2. Execute "./build.sh", to build your own uboot and kernel.

 3. After finish built, Execute "cd SD", plug your Ubuntu TFcard in PC. 

 4. Execute "bpi-update -c bpi-r2.conf -d /dev/sdX", to update the compiled kernel to your TFcard.

OpenWrt

 1. Clone OpenWrt project from Github.
 Execute "git clone https://github.com/garywangcn/bpi-r2_lede.git"

 2. You need to have installed gcc, binutils, bzip2, flex, python, perl, make, find, grep, diff, unzip, gawk, getopt, subversion, libz-dev and libc 
 headers.

 3. Run "./scripts/feeds update -a" to get all the latest package definitions defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default respectively
 and "./scripts/feeds install -a" to install symlinks of all of them into package/feeds/.

 4. Use "make menuconfig" to configure your image.
 Choose "Target System" to config as "MediaTek Ralink ARM"
 Choose "Boot Loaders" to config as "u-boot-bpi_r2"

 5. Execute "make -j1 V=s" to build your own OpenWrt image.

 6. After built, enter to "build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a7+neon-vfpv4_musl_eabi/linux-mediatek_32/", you will find two images
 mtk-bpi-r2-EMMC.img
 mtk-bpi-r2-SD.img

Reference Link

http://www.banana-pi.org/r2.html

http://forum.banana-pi.org/