Re: Support for ath10k QCA988x devices
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 03:33:00PM -0800, Alexander Merritt wrote: > On 2017-04-12 Stefan Sperling wrote > > ath10k devices are not supported. They need a new driver because Atheros > > has changed the driver<->hardware interface with this generation of devices. > > Is there any update? A brief look in the source code and manual did not show > anything. No. I have been too busy with Intel drivers instead. Currently I am working on a new driver based on iwm(4) for newer Intel hardware (ax200). I don't want to work on more than one driver at a time. It would be great if the industry stopped putting out new chipsets for a few years so we can manage to catch up. > What effort is required to implement a new driver, as Stefan mentions? Port > something from another BSD? From Linux? Start from scratch? In this case it can be ported from Linux. However, that is a lot more involved than mere copy/paste; it essentially requires going through the entire driver and port the neccessary parts of the code incrementally. Check Patrick's talk from EuroBSDcon 2019 about bwfm; this is a similar situation. > My motivation is to build a wireless router supporting 802.11ac (with OpenBSD > if possible). Compex WLE600VX and WLE900VX support 867Mbps and 1300Mbps, > respectively, according to their data sheets. > > I am not bound to this chipset, if there are alternatives which do work. The 11n support net80211 and iwm/iwn needs to be completed before working on 11ac makes any sense. What is lacking in particular on the way towards 11ac is 40 MHz channel support. Also, Tx aggregation support needs to be added to iwm(4), as was done in iwn(4) some time ago.
Re: Support for ath10k QCA988x devices
On 2020-01-28, Alexander Merritt wrote: > Hello, > > I am curious if there is any info on support for the wireless chipset > Qualcomm Atheros QCA988x in the ath10k drivers. These devices are sold by > PCEngines. Prior discussions I found on this list: > > On 2014-04-17 Thom Lauret wrote >> 802.11n is not yet supported in OpenBSD. This is outdated. > On 2015-09-23 Stuart Henderson wrote >> > http://www.pcengines.ch/wle600vx.htm >> >> This is a QCA9882 from the 802.11ac range, on Linux this uses the >> Ath10k driver. Not yet supported on OpenBSD. > > On 2017-04-12 Stefan Sperling wrote >> ath10k devices are not supported. They need a new driver because Atheros >> has changed the driver<->hardware interface with this generation of devices. These two are still valid. > Is there any update? A brief look in the source code and manual did not show > anything. > > What effort is required to implement a new driver, as Stefan mentions? Port > something from another BSD? From Linux? Start from scratch? > > My motivation is to build a wireless router supporting 802.11ac (with OpenBSD > if possible). Compex WLE600VX and WLE900VX support 867Mbps and 1300Mbps, > respectively, according to their data sheets. > > I am not bound to this chipset, if there are alternatives which do work. At a minimum, porting the driver from another OS, but AFAIK (I may be wrong) there will need to be wider changes to the net80211 stack before other 11ac devices will work. (fewer changes were needed for bwfm where a lot more of the stack is run on the NIC itself).
Support for ath10k QCA988x devices
Hello, I am curious if there is any info on support for the wireless chipset Qualcomm Atheros QCA988x in the ath10k drivers. These devices are sold by PCEngines. Prior discussions I found on this list: On 2014-04-17 Thom Lauret wrote > 802.11n is not yet supported in OpenBSD. On 2015-09-23 Stuart Henderson wrote > > http://www.pcengines.ch/wle600vx.htm > > This is a QCA9882 from the 802.11ac range, on Linux this uses the > Ath10k driver. Not yet supported on OpenBSD. On 2017-04-12 Stefan Sperling wrote > ath10k devices are not supported. They need a new driver because Atheros > has changed the driver<->hardware interface with this generation of devices. Is there any update? A brief look in the source code and manual did not show anything. What effort is required to implement a new driver, as Stefan mentions? Port something from another BSD? From Linux? Start from scratch? My motivation is to build a wireless router supporting 802.11ac (with OpenBSD if possible). Compex WLE600VX and WLE900VX support 867Mbps and 1300Mbps, respectively, according to their data sheets. I am not bound to this chipset, if there are alternatives which do work. -Alex
