On 28-10-14 14:46, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 07:19:32PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote: >> Am 27.10.2014 um 16:20 schrieb John W. Linville: >>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:02:00AM +0800, Etna wrote: >>>> I am not a developer, but I stumbled upon this just a couple of days ago in >>>> the OpenWRT forums: >>>> >>>> https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=53215 >>>> >>>> In short, MediaTek is looking for volunteers to help get their drivers >>>> mainlined in the upstream kernels; this includes drivers for their USB and >>>> PCI wifi hardware under both the MediaTek and Ralink brands. They are >>>> willing to provide "chip info, reference driver, dev board, etc" and even >>>> some degree of sponsorship, apparently subject to their management's >>>> approval. >>>> >>>> In exchange, they require that the volunteers fulfill the following >>>> requirements: >>>> - skilled in wifi driver development >>>> - provide a suitable schedule / roadmap >>>> - be able to get the code mainlined in the official linux kernel. >>>> >>>> Those who are keen on taking up the task can contact the original poster at >>>> hua.shao[AT]mediatek.com >>>> >>>> **Disclaimer: I am in no way related to, or under the employ of MediaTek or >>>> Ralink. I am only posting this here because I have a handful of MT wifi >>>> chips which I hope to see being supported in the upstream kernel so that I >>>> can actually use them under Linux, >>> >>> Well, this is mostly good to see. I hope there is someone that wants >>> to take-up the cause! >>> >>> If someone is interested in working-on the project above but for >>> whatever reason doesn't want to deal with MediaTek on their own, >>> feel free to contact me. I'll try to be helpful however I can. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> John >> >> >> Sounds interesting and as perfect possibility to learn. I would like to >> do it, but i have two concerns: >> - i never wrote an wifi driver from scratch. > > FWIW, I think MediaTek already has some form of drivers. With that > said, it might be easier to write new mac80211-based ones than to > adapt the existing ones. > >> - i'm seeking for a job. It means if i will find one, this project will >> get lower priority. > > No one can ask anything more. > >> If nobody has problems with this two points, then i'm ok. > > It sounds like we have a volunteer! Let me know if you need any > specific help or guidance. During LPC Felix mentioned GPLed mediatek driver for their 11ac chipset(s?). It is on github: https://github.com/openwrt/mtk-wifi-gpl Regards, Arend -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
