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Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 08:39:24 +0100 (CET)
From: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@gmail.com>
To: Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: MT7630 support
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Hello Ulli!

First of all - thank you for the help and the precious info / link.
I'll look at it now.
Thank you very very much.

Enrico


On Sat, 23 Dec 2017, Hans Ulli Kroll wrote:

> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 08:28:22
> From: Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll@googlemail.com>
> To: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
> Cc: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
>     Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
>     Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
>     John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>, nbd@nbd.name
> Subject: Re: MT7630 support
> 
> Hi
>
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2017, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 06:39:34PM +0100, Enrico Mioso wrote:
>>> Hello guys.
>>> So, at some point I felt crazy enough to try to add support for the MT7630 chipset to the rt2xx ralink wireless drivers.
>>> I expected this to be a little bit of a challenge.
>>> I did begin adding some code paths around, reading from the mixed-up drivers here:
>>> https://github.com/neurobin/MT7630E
>>> (thanks a lot to the guys who are working on this, and who worked on this).
>>> and working on the kernel's git rt2xx tree. I am sending a raw diff that will for sure not compile. I am asking for guidance and help in going on.
>>
>> I think better way to add support for MT7630 chip to mailine kernel
>> would be via new Felix's mt76 driver, because there are less diffrence
>> between MT7630 and MT76x2 than between MT7630 and the old Ralink chips.
>>
>
> MT7630e is part of the MT76x0 family
> Felix's driver is missing the baseband/rf tables for MT76x0.
>
> The full driver for MT7610E is here
> https://github.com/i80s/mtk-sources
>
> /me now reading Felix code to adapot MT76x2 for mt7612u ...
>
> Greetings
> Ulli
>