[UNOFFICIAL] OpenWRT & Other firmware for A5E

Hello everyone, after some time of research, I have preliminarily ported the A5E-related BSP code to OpenWRT. Here is the GitHub repository.

Due to some lack of understanding of AW u-boot, this project currently only generates middleware (boot.fex + rootfs.fex) for TINA SDK packaging.
To package it into a usable firmware, the TINA SDK is still required.

In the meantime, I have organized some of the existing firmware available online (including above OpenWRT)

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Cool, man! 2 NICs board is very good for routing.

You are a rock star!

thanks, It helps a lot

Hey! I really appreciate your work on the radxa cubie A5E openwrt system. I’ve been trying to compile the system image by following your repo’s steps. The build process works, but the final image *.sdcard.img.gz in bin/targets/cubiea5e/a527 seems empty—and boot.img and rootfs.ext4 are generated in target/linux/cubiea5e/image/ .

In target/linux/cubiea5e/image/Makefile , you mentioned:

“Due to the lack of some functions in official u-boot and private data that can’t be decrypted, we only generate files for lichee.”

Does this mean the script skips creating a full SD card image? If so, could you share how to pack boot.img and rootfs.ext4 into a bootable SD image like the prebuilt ones you provide?
A quick outline would help a lot. Thanks for your time!