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About ath10k

ath10k is the mac80211 wireless driver for Qualcom Atheros QCA988x family of chips, which support IEEE 802.11ac.

A major difference from ath9k is that there's now a firmware and that's why we had to implement a new driver.

News

2013-06-01

review v2: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=137008586705509&w=2

Mailing list

For now we use ath9k-devel mailing list for ath10k related discussions and patches: https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel

Getting ath10k

Until ath10k is accepted upstream the driver and firmware is available from github.com:

Firmware

Firmware is temporalily available at https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware until it will be available from linux-firmware.git.

Configuration

TODO

Supported Devices

ath10k supports Qualcomm Atheros 802.11ac QCA98xx based devices, here's a list of known products:

Atheros common module

ath10k uses the common shared ath.ko module.

Reporting bugs

Please send bug reports to mailing list ath10k@lists.infradead.org

TODO

Things ath10k developers are currently working on, and other things to do:

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