Return-path: Received: from mail-oi0-f66.google.com ([209.85.218.66]:35933 "EHLO mail-oi0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755104AbdCGKyK (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2017 05:54:10 -0500 Received: by mail-oi0-f66.google.com with SMTP id a144so7571147oib.3 for ; Tue, 07 Mar 2017 02:54:02 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2cf744b3-60f9-fa38-658d-fe06e878f548@quantenna.com> References: <1483952830-3967-1-git-send-email-igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com> <2cf744b3-60f9-fa38-658d-fe06e878f548@quantenna.com> From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 11:45:13 +0100 Message-ID: (sfid-20170307_115421_161598_A373B8A1) Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] qtnfmac: announcement of new FullMAC driver for Quantenna chipsets To: Igor Mitsyanko Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Johannes Berg , btherthala@quantenna.com, hwang@quantenna.com, smaksimenko@quantenna.com, dlebed@quantenna.com, Sergey Matyukevich , Kamlesh Rath , Avinash Patil Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 7 March 2017 at 11:07, Igor Mitsyanko wrote: > On 03/07/2017 12:19 AM, Rafa=C5=82 Mi=C5=82ecki wrote: >> On 01/09/2017 10:07 AM, igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com wrote: >>> >>> From: Igor Mitsyanko >>> >>> This patch adds support for new FullMAC WiFi driver for Quantenna >>> QSR10G chipsets. >>> >>> QSR10G (aka Pearl) is Quantenna's 8x8, 160M, 11ac offering. >>> QSR10G supports 2 simultaneous WMACs - one 5G and one 2G. >>> 5G WMAC supports 160M, 8x8 configuration. FW supports >>> up to 8 concurrent virtual interfaces on each WMAC. >>> >>> Patch introduces 2 new drivers: >>> - qtnfmac.ko for interfacing with kernel wireless core >>> - qtnfmac_pearl_pcie.ko for interfacing with hardware over PCIe interfa= ce >> >> >> Hi, what's the state of this patch? Kalle I see it in your pending branc= h, >> could you give me/us a hint what does it mean, please? > > > Hi Rafal, we will be submitting V5 soon addressing your comments and addi= ng > option to "boot from internal flash" rather then from PCIe. > >> >> I've also one not-strictly-related question. What about other chipsets >> support? >> I'm mostly interested in QT3840BC which can be found in few home routers >> that >> OpenWrt/LEDE could support. >> Can they be supported with submitted core code and just an additional bu= s >> driver? > > > Yes, this is a previous generation SoC, we already have support for those > with additional bus driver which we plan to submit as a followup patch, > after first one is accepted. > But support is only for SoCs' connected with host system over PCIe bus, I= 'm > not sure which product you're interested in exactly: if it uses RGMII > interface to interface QT3840BC with host CPU then it basically looks lik= e a > simple ETH to host. Not much we can do to support FullMAC driver in this > case. I was interested in supporting ASUS RT-AC87U and maybe Netgear R7500. According to the https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_RT-AC87U ASUS indeed uses some RGMII interface, I'll need to look for more details first. Thanks for looking at this.