Re: MediaTek WiFi hardware support in upstream kernel

[Etna]

This is sorely needed given the miserable state of wifi drivers in the 
Linux kernel.


Kernel maintainers, can this be pushed to mainline? It's not a vendor 
driver after all, and it uses nl80211 instead of WEXT.



Regards,
Etna



On 26/02/15 22:40, Jakub Kiciński wrote:


On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:56:46 +0100, poma wrote:


On 06.02.2015 18:29, Jakub Kiciński wrote:


Hello everyone! I put together a mac80211 driver for Mediatek 
MT7601U. It's partially based on Felix's mt76, but I'm not sure if 
it will make sense to merge the two together. MT7601U is a pretty 
old 1x1 bgn chip for USB dongles and mt76 now only supports the 
latest and greatest ac APs. I'm testing STA functionality right now 
and it seems to be working ok. The code is very much a work in 
progress but if anyone is interested you can get it here: 
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How many mt7601u module editions exists there? :) - vendor's - 
vendor's patched (how many forms of the same) - your reinvented - 
the one on which pán Gruszka allegedly works? - any more?


I assume you mean to ask how many different drivers are there. There 
is the vendor 3.0.0.4 STA driver which only has client functionality. 
Many patched versions of this driver exist on GitHub. There is also 
an older version of vendor driver which can work as an AP. My 
mac80211-based driver is the only non-vendor version I'm aware of.




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MediaTek WiFi hardware support in upstream kernel

[Etna]

I am not a developer, but I stumbled upon this just a couple of days ago 
in the OpenWRT forums:


https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=53215

In short, MediaTek is looking for volunteers to help get their drivers 
mainlined in the upstream kernels; this includes drivers for their USB 
and PCI wifi hardware under both the MediaTek and Ralink brands. They 
are willing to provide "chip info, reference driver, dev board, etc" and 
even some degree of sponsorship, apparently subject to their 
management's approval.


In exchange, they require that the volunteers fulfill the following 
requirements:

- skilled in wifi driver development
- provide a suitable schedule / roadmap
- be able to get the code mainlined in the official linux kernel.

Those who are keen on taking up the task can contact the original poster 
at hua.shao[AT]mediatek.com


**Disclaimer: I am in no way related to, or under the employ of MediaTek 
or Ralink. I am only posting this here because I have a handful of MT 
wifi chips which I hope to see being supported in the upstream kernel so 
that I can actually use them under Linux,

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