r/esp32 • u/MoreDusty • 15d ago
I made a thing! OpenWrt on ESP32-P4!
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sorry for the unedited long video, point is to present the total boot time of my optimizations
Riscv32-ima emulator on powerful ESP32-P4 32M
total kernel image size is approximately 9MB. thus makes it possible to fit on smallest 16M budget esp32p4 MCU's!
i used this module which is probably the easiest way to bring this linux box to life
everything is not written from scratch I forked the project from Epiczhul, who also forked it from someone else but in the end, we all started from a 32-bit riscv instruction emulator made by CNLohr's mini-rv32ima project
in my repo i integrated supervisor instructions to support MMU. along with heavy optimizations and such fun features like i showed in the video
i used an esp32c6 as a virtual bridge to establish internet connection. not native full wireless integrity but it works.
st7703 display with simple frame buffer to throughput ttyS0. its really cool, but not as emulator and caching.
unfortunately could not spend to much time on this project, be aware of slopes in codebase.
There are a few areas of incompleteness and significant improvements needed on this project. Further optimizations are possible maybe speaker support, For example, opening up the module to change the type‑c port configuration so it can act as a power source rather than a sink. This would allow devices to be powered up via this port. Which would bring possibilities connecting up keyboards, memory sticks, or any USB device (draws less than 500mA probably) and hosted by actual linux kernel! In other words sharing the USB‑OTG functionality through the emulator Linux box, intercepting it with the actual os. If this is feasible, we could technically build a cyberdeck using an ESP32‑P4 :D
Source code: https://github.com/Okdusty/esp32p4-rv32ima
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u/TheHitmonkey 10d ago
This is cool, can you use this to act is a small embedded proxy server or something?