MT7688AN vs QCA4531

[Adrian Chadd]

On 8 August 2016 at 05:54, Heikki Suonsivu <heikki at suonsivu.net> wrote:
> I have been comparing MT7688(AN) and QCA4531 for a project.
>
> For MT7688 it seems that WLAN support is not yet done?  Older drivers
> for Ralink chipsets weren's as good as what atheros drivers generally
> are, has there been any progress?

the 11ac drivet from openwrt (mt76) hasn't been ported to BSD, and the
if_ral driver hasn't been updated for the newer chips.

>
> For QCA4531, I could not find any references on FreeBSD running on it,
> though it is continuation of earlier Atheros WLAN chipsets, it might be
> relatively easy to get up and running?
>
> Both are roughly in same price and capability range.  Any other chips I
> should look at?

Is that dragonfly? I haven't yet done the SoC/wifi bits for dragonfly.
I've done them for Honeybee, but not Dragonfly.
(If someone has a board with the QCA Dragonfly SoC on it then let me
know and I'll go acquire one to do the port with.)

thanks,


-adrian