[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/rtl8821au: switch upstream to abperiasamy

Christian Stewart christian at paral.in
Sat Jul 23 17:50:04 UTC 2016


Hi Thomas,


On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 6:13 AM, Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com wrote: Is it really more active and maintained?
Yes.

This new github in fact has a

lot less recent commits that the current github we're using. So it

isn't really clear that this new github is a better “upstream”. What

makes you believe it is a better upstream?




Here is my reasoning:
- The current fork we are using is maintained by 1 person. - The current fork does not work, and there are no plans to fix this: - https://github.com/ulli-kroll/rtl8821au/issues/5 - https://github.com/ulli-kroll/rtl8821au/issues/6 - The current fork has never worked very well (we've had lots of issues with
it) - Our lab switched to the abperiasamy fork a couple months ago and have been
very happy with it. - The contributor list for the abperiasamy fork contains 21 well-known
individuals in the community. - The raspberry pi community recommends the abperiasamy fork and uses it
extensively. - Firmware blobs are not necessary with the new fork and all of the devices we
have tested the driver with have not required firmware blobs. In fact, we found
that the firmware blobs in ulli-kroll's version bricked a few of our wifi cards,
and are quite happy with not using a driver that messes with firmware. - There is a version of rtl8821au in the Raspberry Pi kernel but that is
obviously unsuitable for use in Buildroot as it cannot be applied to arbitrary
kernels.
Best, Christian
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