Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:51:35 -0400
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Luca Olivetti <luca@ventoso.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mediatek MT7601U big endian fixes
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 07:19:07PM +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> apart from the general brokenness of the vendor supplied driver (see
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg126291.html and
> http://www.arnelborja.com/compiling-rt2870-wifi-driver-in-fedora/), it
> doesn't work in big endian mode.
> 
> Without this patch:
> 
> https://code.google.com/p/mt7601-openwrt/source/browse/patches/007-big-endian-fix.patch
> 
> it doesn't even compile, and this one
> 
> https://code.google.com/p/mt7601-openwrt/source/browse/patches/008-more-big-endiand-fixes.patch
> 
> makes it functional.
> 
> Before finding the fix myself I contacted mediatek support with no reply
> so far.
> 
> Do you know if is there somebody (at ralink/mediatek or elsewhere)
> working on integrating this chipset in the in-kernel driver?
> 
> Bye
> -- 
> Luca

I don't know of anyone from Ralink/MediaTek or otherwise working
on that.  I sent some emails to MediaTek on this issue recently,
but I made the mistake of including someone from the community who
actively undermind my attempts to reach-out to MediaTek...

If you (or anyone else) want to work on integrating device support
from that driver with the in-kernel drivers then I encourage you to
do so.  If you happen to have better contacts with MediaTek than I
have, then please feel free to reach out to them and/or to put them
in contact with me.

John
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