Re: Any chance of getting mt7663 into mt76?

On Wed, 31 Jul 2024, Radu-Cristian Fotescu wrote:

> Are there any efforts concerning the MT7663 Wi-Fi/BT chip 14c3:7663:11ad:3801 that is pretty common with Acer Aspire 3 and supported in Linux via mt7615e? 
>
> It looks like mt76 only supports mt7915, mt7921, mt7996 so far.
>
> Note that any reports mentioning that MT7663 is supported since Linux 5.7 are false: it's not supported by 5.14 (EL9 and clones), but it's definitely supported by 6.1 and newer.
>
> https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci:14c3-7663-11ad-3801
> https://bsd-hardware.info/?id=pci:14c3-7663-11ad-3801
>
> Should I add a bug report, as some people did when they asked e.g. for BCM4313?
>
> I suppose Bjoern is the only person who could add this device to mt76 some day, right?

The 7663 is mt7615 which I can indeed have a look.   Given we are 6.x
based this should be fine).  If you want you could grab a link to this
message from the mailing list archive and add a note to
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264300


Any work on mt76 is still blocked on VM changes related to struct page
in LinuxKPI which I am waiting for help.

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7