Is it possible to run BPi on any hardware? If TP-Link is banned, I'd think that many other Chinese-based manufacturers may also be on the chopping block.
OpwnWRT is one distro that runs on it, apparently. Seems you know even less than I do about it.
But yes you’d need to know something about which distribution, ideally listen to someone’s actual experience.
This was the hope that started this thread. It still does work sometimes around here but surely not this time at all.