broadband-modem-mbim related questions

[Wassenberg, Dennis]

Hi,


On Mon, 2022-05-16 at 16:23 +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 3:35 PM Wassenberg, Dennis
> <Dennis.Wassenberg at secunet.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi again ;)
> > 
> > sorry, in the first mail my expression was not clear enough.
> > 
> > I am referring to the new "Intel" plugin (intel/mm-plugin-intel.c) based on intel/broadband-modem-mbim-intel.c.
> > 
> 
> The Intel plugin is for Intel-branded MBIM modems. Is it that the
> Fibocom L860 exposes itself with the intel vendor id in PCI mode?
Yes, this is PCI 8086:7560.
> 
> > Looking at branch mm-1-18 this plugin seems to be not available now. This is available in main branch only. This
> > implies
> > that there is no tagged release available yet.
> > 
> > Having this in mind, I would like to repeat my two questions:
> > 
> > Is there a recommendation which ModemManager, libmbim, libqmi version to use or should we just pick the most current
> > main branch?
> > 
> 
> If you want the Intel plugin, better rely on git main branch then.
Ok, understood. We will follow your suggestion.
> 
> > I there a schedule of a stable version (1.18.10, 1.20.0 ?) available which includes support of the "Intel" plugin?
> > 
> 
> The Intel plugin will get into 1.20, whenever that is. It could be
> backported to 1.18, but that means quite more work.
> 
> Regarding schedule, I think a 1.20 release around June would make
> sense. There are a ton of new things already, especially in the MBIM
> support with the inclusion of the Microsoft Extended services up to
> v3.0. If anyone is eager to have the new release soon, please test git
> main as much as you can. I don't think I'll be able to perform all the
> detailed testing I did for the 1.18 release (took me almost 1 month!)
> 
Ok, thank you for these information.

Best regards,

Dennis