>>>> I know from various questions in the past that a number of ARM devices >>>> come with realtek wifi interfaces. A new driver the a lot of the >>>> realtek usb wifi devices has landed in the 4.4 kernel. All the gory >>>> details are in the commit log [1] it's not a fully featured driver >>>> just yet but should work well for the standard connect to your AP use >>>> case. >>>> >>>> It would be great if those of you with such devices could test a >>>> rawhide kernel and report back good and/or bad experiences. >>> >>> >>> Cool stuff, a lot of Allwinner devices come with these wifi chips >>> atm I do not really have time to run any sort of worth-while >>> tests. But I'll enable this driver in my own local build test kernels >>> and I will try to use it whenever I use wifi. >>> >>> Jens, are there any plans to also add support for sdio based variants of >>> these chips ? Quite a few devices also come with sdio based variants, >>> such as the C.H.I.P. >> >> Yes, I'm been meaning to ask the same question, it seems they're also >> used on a bunch of windows tablets too. > > I don't have any SDIO devices accessible to me, so it's not easy for me > to do something about it. It shouldn't be undoable to add SDIO support > to it, but keep in mind the Realtek devices run in multiple generations > and I currently only support the 8188cu/8192cu/8723au generation. I am > working on 8723bu/8192eu at the moment, but they are showing up to be a > little more different than the older generation than I thought at first, > so it will take a bit longer than I hoped. > > Larry Finger mentioned he was interested in looking into this, but I > don't know how far he got. > > I know very little about SDIO, any idea if it's possible to get SDIO to > PCIe adapters? If you can get devices in SD card form factor you could plug them into some laptop SD cards slots, alternatively I could probably organise to get you a couple of the common ARM devices to test against. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
