[Arm-netbook] eoma68 router (qca9531)

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:38 PM, dumblob <dumblob at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Luke,
>
>>  ask them if they can get the firmware source for the WIFI module on
>> those gigabit WIFI integrated routers.
>
> that's rather not possible as the spreading was done through a public
> announcement on a web site with tens of thousands of visitors daily. I
> can only change the announcement and read comments. I can't somehow
> "ask" them for an alternative.

 no problem - you know what i'm referring to, at least.

> Anyway, do you know about any successor of QCA9531 ?

 i don't... but if it's from atheros it's almost certainly likely to
have ath10k... which will no longer be libre.  we've had a hard enough
time even *finding* libre-compatible routers, let alone gigabit ones.

> I know about
> decent amount of deployments (matching the size, capabilities, and
> interfaces of such a "better" SOHO router) where 100Mbit is fine, but
> I know about way more deployments where 1Gbit is the point which
> separates the wheat from the chuff.

 *sigh* yeahh  i knoww....