2014-04-23 14:27 GMT+02:00, Zoltan HERPAI <wigy...@uid0.hu>: >>> I don't know if any of the OpenWRT developers or contributors have >>> this router. If yes, my opinion is to add support for the board using >>> the patches sent by Matthew Fatheree as base, reworking them and drop >>> wireless support for now until they (Marvell or Belkin) develop a >>> cfg80211 or mac80211 compatible wireless driver. In other >>> circumstances maybe would be a good idea to spend time developing a >>> driver for the Avastar family but i think that if they say that the >>> WRT1900ac has support for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, DebWRT or any other it >>> should be their job. >> Correction: if nobody have this router another option could be take >> Matthew's patches >>> (without the binary blob), correct them, test if can be compiled without >>> problems, include >>> them and add initial support marking @BROKEN. >>> Of course this is my own opinion and i don't have all the information, >>> so, if this is the case my apologies to OpenWRT developers, Matthew >>> Fatheree and Belkin International,Inc > > Note that while having the wireless driver source released (or partially > released), is a big win, I don't see any uboot source in the package. > > Regards, > -w- > Yes, it is a big win, but as Felix noted before the driver needs to be rewrote and it doesn't use the standard Linux Wireless API. "This means that work on supporting this device can theoretically continue, although I expect it to take quite a bit of time. As I anticipated, the code quality of the driver source code is abysmal. This looks like rewrite (not cleanup) material, ugly enough to cause eye cancer or frighten small children ;)
There are also still some pieces missing: Since this driver does not use standard Linux Wireless APIs, it can only properly function with custom hostapd/wpa_supplicant hacks. I don't see those in the release." I think that is too much job and efforts for a single and not very popular, as far i know, wireless family chips. I repeat that it is my not totally informed opinion because i don't know a lot of details. Off topic: for me are more interesting the ath9k and ath10k drivers. José _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
