[LEDE-DEV] QCA Dakota support

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Sat Nov 12 11:57:25 PST 2016


Have you tried the ath10k-ct driver?  I think it should at least
support the radios if you put on the right firmware.  Not sure about the rest of the board.

Thanks,
Ben

On 11/12/2016 09:42 AM, Matthew McClintock wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Christian Mehlis <christian at m3hlis.de> wrote:
>> Hi Matthew,
>>
>> I took your patches to my tree. They are for Linux 4.7, so I tried to make
>> Lede build with that Linux version.
>> I ran into some trouble with musl+netifd (fixed it). Now compat-wireless
>> seems to expect an older Kernel:
>>
>> compat-wireless-2016-10-08/backport-include/linux/netdevice.h:337:5: error:
>> 'struct net_device' has no member named 'trans_start'
>>    dev->trans_start = jiffies;
>>
>> The member was kicked in 4.7.
>>
>> In case someone is willing to help, I'm open for code.
>
> I can't help much, since QCA declined to give me a board. Did you try
> regenerating the compat-wireless against the newer kernel? I never did
> much on the wifi side, was alway doing everything else.
>
> If you compare the ChromeOS tree I shared it's a backport to 3.18, so
> some subset of patches in that list will backport to 4.4 pretty
> easily.
>
> -M
>
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