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 -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linvi...@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
