Summary

Banana Pi BPI-R3 with MediaTek MT7986(Filogic 830)

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Introduction

Banana Pi BPI-R3 Router board with MediaTek MT7986(Filogic 830) quad core ARM A53 + MT7531A chip design ,2G DDR RAM ,8G eMMC flash onboard,It is a very high performance open source router development board,support Wi-Fi6 2.4G wifi use MT7975N and 5G wifi use MT7975P, support 2 SFP 2.5GbE port, and 5 GbE network port.

MediaTek MT7986(Filogic 830)

The MT7986(Filogic 830) integrates four Arm Cortex-A53 cores up to 2GHz with up to 18,000 DMIPs of processing power and 6Gbps of dual 4x4 Wi-Fi6 connectivity. It has two 2.5g Ethernet interfaces and serial peripheral interfaces (SPI). Filogic 830‘s built-in hardware acceleration engine enables fast and reliable Wi-Fi offloading and wireless network connection. In addition, the chip supports Mediatek FastPath™ technology, which is suitable for games, AR/VR and other low-latency applications.

Wi-fi 6 has many advantages over its predecessors, including lower latency, larger bandwidth capacity and faster transmission rates. Wireless network devices supporting the 6GHz band mainly use 160MHz wide channel and 6GHz uncongested bandwidth to provide multigigabit transmission and low-latency wi-fi connection, providing reliable wireless network for streaming media, games, AR/VR and other applications.

Application direction

. Internet service Router
. Wireless Router
. Wireless Repeater
. Home security Gateway
. Home Automation
. Nas device
. Network and communication applications

Key Features

. MediaTek MT7986(Filogic 830) Quad core ARM Cortex A53+MT7531 chip design
. Wifi 6 4x4 2.4G Wifi(MT7975N) +4x4 5G Wifi(MT7975P)
. 2G DDR RAM
. 8G eMMC flash
. 2 SFP 2.5GbE
. 5 GbE network port
. POE support (optional)
. Mini PCIe via USB
. M.2 KEY-E PCIe inerface
. Mciro SD card interface
. 26 PIN GPIO

Getting Start

Getting Started with BPI-R3

Hardware

Hardware interface

Jumper setting

Jumper Setting of Banana pi BPI-R3
Jumper Setting	SW1	SW2	SW5	SW6
SPIM-NoR	Low	Low	Low	X
SPIM-Nand	High	Low	High	X
eMMC	Low	High	High	Low
SD card	High	High	X	High

Hardware spec

HardWare Specification of Banana pi BPI-R3
CPU	MediaTek MT7986(Filogic 830) Quad core ARM Cortex A53+MT7531 chip design
SDRAM	2 GB DDR4
On board Storage	MicroSD \(TF\) card,8GB eMMC onboard
GPIO	26 Pin GPIO,some of which can be used for specific functions including UART, I2C, SPI, PWM, I2S.
On board Network	5 Port 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet
SFP	2 SFP 2.5GbE
Wifi	Wifi 6 4x4 2.4G Wifi(MT7975N) +4x4 5G Wifi(MT7975P)
mini PCIE	Mini PCIe via USB
M.2 interface	M.2 KEY-M PCIe inerface
USB	1 USB 3.0 host ,2 USB interface with slot.
Buttons	Reset button,WPS botton, boot switch
Leds	Power status Led and RJ45 Led
DC Power	12V/2A with DC in
Sizes	100.5x148mm same as Banana Pi BPI-R64 and Banana Pi BPI-R2
Weight	200g

Resources

Source code

Official BPI-R3 kernel v5.15 + firmware repo:

https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-R3-bsp-5.15

Official OpenWrt 21.02 for BPI-R3 repo:

https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-R3-OPENWRT-V21.02.3

Instructions:https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-r3-openwrt-image/13236/4

Notes:
Baidu link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1JSQ7wJTCeK4JqWR_XB-LLQ?pwd=6vdb (Pincode: 6vdb)
Google link:https://drive.google.com/file/d/13nQMfM0_XTyWcILhNxv_9E4TIvb65RI0/view?usp=sharing

Frank’s U-Boot repo:

https://github.com/frank-w/u-boot/tree/2023-04-bpi

Frank’s BPI-R3 kernel v6.1 repo

https://github.com/frank-w/BPI-Router-Linux/tree/6.1-main

Unofficial wiki (English):https://wiki.fw-web.de/doku.php?id=en:bpi-r3:start

Documents

BPI-R3 DXF file : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bc5mCtJlnPi84q7VZYaQkZhRUU4HUfUd/view?usp=sharing
BPI-R3 schematic diagram : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mxKb8CBbnzfNSd_4esmcX_NovxaXjEb8/view?usp=sharing
MT7986A_Datasheet_1.15 : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t_nuPTeoAcFb1dmEe4kJVlLWdHcAA6OB/view?usp=sharing
MT7986A_Reference_Manual_for_BPI-R3 : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1biSJmxnIpNzQroYDg9mtPtSTAv4i0DFf/view?usp=sharing
[Tutorial] Build, customize and use MediaTek open-source U-Boot and ATF : https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/tutorial-build-customize-and-use-mediatek-open-source-u-boot-and-atf/13785
BPI-R3 OpenSource Routerboard how to burn and test imagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaf_SC7fPDM
BPI-R3 CE,FCC,RoHS certificate : https://banana-pi.org/en/bpi-honor/
Banana Pi BPI-R3 Review: Details, Pricing, & Features : https://androidpimp.com/embedded/banana-pi-bpi-r3-router-board/?fbclid=IwAR1G4cEco5iULwKG-C-n8MIiWOWZMhPborqmCzS2d3KIHx-eNQS-54lZnps
Update OpenWrt to 22.03.3 SNAPSHOT:https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bananapi-bpi-r3-update-openwrt-to-22-03-3-snapshot/14984
3D printed cases:https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-bpi-r3-3d-printed-case/14246/43
Cooling solutions topic: https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-r3-running-hot/14750
Bananapi R3 review with WiFi / CPU benchmarks and power consumption numbers: https://wiki.junicast.de/en/junicast/review/bananapi-BPI-R3
[BPI-R2/R64/R3] OpenWrt built on devices : https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/toolchain/building_openwrt_on_openwrt
[Tutorial] Reworking BPI-R3 nand Flash:https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/tutorial-reworking-bpi-r3-nand-flash/15492
BananaPi BPI-R3, now with ROOTer support!:https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?t=3852

Release image

OpenWRT

Latest official OpenWRT snapshot image:

https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=SNAPSHOT&target=mediatek%2Ffilogic&id=bananapi_bpi-r3

2022-07-20 udptae BPI-R3 OpenWRT 21.02 linux kernel 5.4, wifi 6 2.4G and 5G mac80211 opensource wifi driver working fine support nand flash ,SD card ,eMMC flash boot. for BPI-R3 production version hardware

Google Drive:https://drive.google.com/file/d/13nQMfM0_XTyWcILhNxv_9E4TIvb65RI0/view?usp=share_link

Baidu Cloud: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1-5tqHEacMw1wlTSEK1ey9A?pwd=8888 (pincode: 8888)

2022-06-01udptae BPI-R3 OpenWRT 21.02 linux kernel 5.4, wifi 6 2.4G and 5G working fine support nand flash ,SD card ,eMMC flash boot. for BPI-R3 production version hardware

Google drive :https://drive.google.com/file/d/18_xst-diDdCg7CeSum1M5FDbbo31jFJq/view?usp=drivesdk

Baidu link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1idqU1-bB4XD1LTGDAJxRGA?pwd=chez Pincode: chez

Discuss on forum : https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-r3-openwrt-image/13236

2022-09-28 udptae BPI-R3 OpenWRT 21.02 linux kernel 5.4, wifi 6 2.4G and 5G working fine support nand flash ,SD card ,eMMC flash boot, support EC25 LTE 4G

Modules for BPI-R3 production version hardware

Google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oNcnIl8bDla9pPWUd-TFPXXphsCMsJt0/view?usp=sharing

Baidu link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1v4sKfAuax3AfHNtp_2RP_g?pwd=mebq (Pincode: mebq)