How to check my router's CPU architecture?

[onnimonni]

I checked the requirements and was wondering if my hardware will be supported.

So as you remember from the issue I opened here: SmoothWAN/SmoothWAN#179 I'm looking into 4G/5G enabled routers.

GL-X3000 is using MediaTek Dual-core MT7981A SOC with more info in: https://www.mediatek.com/products/home-networking/mt7621

The CPU is MIPS1004Kc with more info in: https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/MIPS32

The 1004Kf version includes an IEEE754 compliant Floating Point Unit, supporting
both single and double precision datatypes.

From this I understand that the c variant doesn't support floating point 😢

I assume that hard float in the README.md means hardware supported floating point calculation.

Is this thinking decision correct? How can I check if hard float is supported or not?

I understood from stackexchange that I could check this by:

$ dpkg --print-architecture

But this is hard to do before ordering the device.

[onnimonni]

And my friend just mentioned to me that this is MIPS processor and not ARM 🤦.

So support will definitely not be there 😄.

Sorry for the noice!

[TalalMash]

It should work out of the box, unlike Slate AX / Flint it seems to be running at 64 bit:
You can test the latest firmware with binary magic test of any executable to be sure:

Your link points to a different SoC which is MIPS.

[onnimonni]

You're correct and I wonder how did I end up posting the wrong link there. Thanks for the help 🙇

[onnimonni]

And thanks for teaching me about this 💪.

If someone else finds this issue from Google later on here's what you need to run in your terminal to check the same result.

# Download the update file for GL-X3000. I copied the url using my browser "copy link" button
$ curl -O https://fw.gl-inet.com/firmware/x3000/release/openwrt-x3000-4.0-0404release1-1214-1702544890.bin

# Check the file type of downloaded file
$ file openwrt-x3000-4.0-0404release1-1214-1702544890.bin
openwrt-x3000-4.0-0404release1-1214-1702544890.bin: POSIX tar archive (GNU)

# Extract the downloaded tar file
$ tar -xvf openwrt-x3000-4.0-0404release1-1214-1702544890.bin

# Check the included files
$ tree .
.
├── openwrt-x3000-4.0-0404release1-1214-1702544890.bin
└── sysupgrade-glinet_gl-x3000
    ├── CONTROL
    ├── kernel
    └── root

2 directories, 4 files

# Check the file type of root
$ file sysupgrade-glinet_gl-x3000/root
sysupgrade-glinet_gl-x3000/root: Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 4.0, xz compressed, 58793625 bytes, 6776 inodes, blocksize: 262144 bytes, created: Thu Dec 14 08:25:22 2023

# Realize that I can't extract squashfs because I don't have unsquashfs installed for my MacOS
$ brew install squashfs

# Extract the squashfs root into root-squashfs
$ unsquashfs -f -d root-squashfs sysupgrade-glinet_gl-x3000/root

# Check the ubus binary and realize it's ARM 64 bit
$ file root-squashfs/bin/ubus
root-squashfs/bin/ubus: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-musl-aarch64.so.1, no section header

[onnimonni]

It works perfectly with GL-X3000 🥳

1. I lowered all gateway metric values from 0 to something higher.
2. I downloaded the package from your releases.
3. Followed the install instructions and installed Speedify
4. Logged in to Speedify
5. Restarted the device

I can now bond my bad VSDL and 4G directly in the router.

I'm very pleased with the results 💪

[onnimonni]

Before I was able to follow your instructions I needed to do this:

[TalalMash]

That's great to hear! Thanks for sharing.
Added to the list.

Renaming and reopening this issue for others to check if their router is supported.