Hi Rafał, On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7 March 2017 at 11:07, Igor Mitsyanko > <igor.mitsyanko.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 03/07/2017 12:19 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >>> On 01/09/2017 10:07 AM, igor.mitsyanko.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>> >>>> From: Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> >>>> 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 interface >>> >>> >>> Hi, what's the state of this patch? Kalle I see it in your pending branch, >>> could you give me/us a hint what does it mean, please? >> >> >> Hi Rafal, we will be submitting V5 soon addressing your comments and adding >> 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 bus >>> 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 like 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. There's a number of "qtn" strings in the Broadcom boot log listed at that URL, so it looks like there's some non-network communication between the "main" SoC and the Quantenna one. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/
