Orange Pi Zero virtual wireless devices not working

I've read many posts here and understand the OPi0 wireless chip isn't very well liked. I'm trying to setup hostapd with both client and AP functionality. I can get AP working only if I dedicate wlan0 to it. It seems that virtual devices (eg iw dev wlan0 interface add uap0 type managed; ip link set uap0 up) don't work with the current jessie image, making it impossible to have both AP and client simultaneously. I'm happy to help with testing the driver, but I'm no expert and certainly

I would also like to get the wireless of the Orange Pi Zero working fully. Limited bandwidth is not a problem for my use case. I'm a competent programmer, but normally try to stay away from kernel code. If this isn't too much work, I'm willing to make an exception. To know that, and also to get started, I need to know what needs to be done though. My observations so far: When the xradio module is loaded, the load average is at least 1.0. It seems to be busy waiting whenever it's not