From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>,
Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Etna <etna@openmailbox.org>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MediaTek WiFi hardware support in upstream kernel
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:04:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5463CB6C.3030204@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5461F937.9060004@rempel-privat.de>
On 2014-11-11 12:55, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> Am 29.10.2014 um 11:17 schrieb Felix Fietkau:
>> Hi Hackers,
>>
>> Just a quick heads up:
>> I'm working on a new driver for MT7662E/MT7612E, written from scratch.
>> It is already able to bring up the firmware, init the MAC and do basic
>> TX/RX DMA communication with the firmware.
>> I've decided to not integrate it with rt2x00, because I want to avoid
>> dealing with the the unnecessarily convoluted abstractions and legacy
>> code in there. I believe the result will be simpler and easier to
>> maintain as a new driver.
>> As soon as the basic structure is in place, I will put it on a public
>> git tree and post a link here.
>>
>> - Felix
>
> Which chip would you suggest for starting?
The chips I'm working with are both MT7662 and MT7612. My driver already
works as a simple AP or station in 802.11n mode with some limited
aggregation support. I'm getting around 45-50 Mbit/s TCP throughput on
HT20 with iperf. I will post code soon, stay tuned!
- Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-12 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-27 3:02 MediaTek WiFi hardware support in upstream kernel Etna
2014-10-27 15:20 ` John W. Linville
2014-10-27 18:19 ` Oleksij Rempel
2014-10-28 13:46 ` John W. Linville
2014-10-28 14:06 ` Arend van Spriel
2014-10-28 14:20 ` Oleksij Rempel
2014-10-29 10:17 ` Felix Fietkau
2014-11-11 11:55 ` Oleksij Rempel
2014-11-12 21:04 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2014-11-12 21:35 ` Larry Finger
2015-02-06 17:29 ` Jakub Kiciński
2015-02-25 0:49 ` Sergei Antonov
2015-02-25 9:33 ` mt7601u dies during channel switch (was: MediaTek WiFi hardware support in upstream kernel) Jakub Kiciński
2015-02-25 23:58 ` Sergei Antonov
2015-02-26 16:05 ` Jakub Kiciński
2015-02-26 18:50 ` Sergei Antonov
2015-02-26 19:01 ` Jakub Kiciński
2015-03-02 10:30 ` Sergei Antonov
2015-02-26 13:56 ` MediaTek WiFi hardware support in upstream kernel poma
2015-02-26 14:40 ` Jakub Kiciński
[not found] ` <5520FB36.8050301@openmailbox.org>
2015-04-05 9:12 ` Etna
2015-05-18 0:03 ` poma
2015-05-19 1:03 ` poma
2015-05-20 17:06 ` poma
2015-05-20 17:14 ` Jakub Kiciński
2015-05-21 13:37 ` poma
2015-06-27 20:45 ` poma
2015-12-23 15:05 ` poma
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