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From: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 12:14:50 +0100
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Subject: Re: MT7630 support
To: Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll@googlemail.com>
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        Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@gmail.com>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
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        Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
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> 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 ...

Hi Hans,

very good news since that task is in my TODO list for a while now so I
guess we can start working together on it.
Have you already had some working code to support mt7612u on mt76 or
just looking at the code?

Regards,
Lorenzo

>
> Greetings
> Ulli


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