Staging r8723bs driver for kernel 4.12.0-rc2 on CHIPPro

Angus Ainslie angus at akkea.ca
Thu Jun 8 06:15:24 PDT 2017


On 2017-06-08 06:39, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 14:38 +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> Hi Bastien,
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 02:34:03PM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2017-05-31 at 10:29 -0600, Angus Ainslie wrote:
>> > > On 2017-05-24 15:03, Angus Ainslie wrote:
>> > > > Hi
>> > > >
>> > > > Has the realtek rtl8723bs staging driver in kernel 4.12.0-rc2
>> > > > been
>> > > > tested on the CHIPPro.
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > This is still an issue with 4.12.0-rc3
>> >
>> > I only have access to the original CHIP, and the default kernel
>> > configuration there didn't have the necessary options for the
>> > staging
>> > driver to work.
>> >
>> > I filed a bug and a PR a while ago:
>> > https://github.com/NextThingCo/CHIP-linux/issues/33
>> > https://github.com/NextThingCo/CHIP-linux/pull/39
>> >
>> > I haven't looked at it again in a long while due to lack of time,
>> > but
>> > that might be a good first pass at the problem, before getting onto
>> > the
>> > CHIP Pro.
>> 
>> This is for the old NTC's 4.4 kernel though. I think Angus is talking
>> about a mainline 4.12.
> 
> Which I would test on a CHIP before a CHIP Pro ;)
> 

If you can get it working on the CHIP that would be awesome.

> Then again, I don't have a CHIP Pro to test with, so...

I'll promise to test it on the CHIPPro for you :)





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