From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Sun Mar 5 01:25:24 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F53CED6E0 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2017 01:25:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mpp302@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-f48.google.com (mail-wm0-f48.google.com [74.125.82.48]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 77A4611E2 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2017 01:25:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mpp302@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-f48.google.com with SMTP id n11so39995865wma.1 for ; Sat, 04 Mar 2017 17:25:24 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=/oGwCP5myyXiLnCtl9V4njnjmuRF17XwT5QOY2O1QMg=; b=oe7/wNhCmHcCZ7BkhPl2D5dWhlD7KaW+LVDU03dfOMRLLLk7r40pewBMNykpcGATe7 fzxZ4f02qZHxH4KnXL7G+EM/s+4Ut6k0CczMGdXSdGRJhW0JNA0iKfRDANS6UcLwjCNx zCGuZYm7ow0U9FtZfmyeDjP4w8vijZRdddvT+h29eIkeKSj3/N3vOaAp+7VeVi77E+mE Na5KOspXBai8e+8m34pnl8OnQ1K8rCw3IiPNs8Vo1IsJzJMHYC/L/063ZvCU0qWqlnJU CeK8y5q53q0WD5wotIbGx36xhvr2owB2msltScmUM4RcU/cCWnk3YR50maEh6gOBmsfM 6k2g== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39kaL9vdepANMDcOGEZwq3iXZQARzPteTqrYWXM289em0ftOzzoz2NyrvG7+rjj88w== X-Received: by 10.28.172.68 with SMTP id v65mr7874000wme.49.1488676631900; Sat, 04 Mar 2017 17:17:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-wm0-f50.google.com (mail-wm0-f50.google.com. [74.125.82.50]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u198sm8942109wmf.9.2017.03.04.17.17.11 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 04 Mar 2017 17:17:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wm0-f50.google.com with SMTP id t193so40120397wmt.1 for ; Sat, 04 Mar 2017 17:17:11 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.28.213.142 with SMTP id m136mr8462218wmg.90.1488676631627; Sat, 04 Mar 2017 17:17:11 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.80.134.113 with HTTP; Sat, 4 Mar 2017 17:17:11 -0800 (PST) From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 02:17:11 +0100 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Doing 802.11ac drivers for GSoC 2017 To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 01:25:24 -0000 Hi, Recently, I've tried installing FreeBSD on Lenovo Yoga 3 14. It turned out that its wireless device (which uses 802.11ac) support is not there yet according to [1] and [2]. Additionally, Adrian@'s presentation from BSDCan 2012 [3] says "802.11ac support? .. it's rapidly approaching, it should be thought about!" :). Is there any book/website/tutorial which shows how to develop network drivers for FreeBSD? I think that developing a 802.11ac driver seems to be a fine project for Google Summer of Code. On the other hand, I have little experience with drivers so far so it might be a better idea to focus on implementing only a part of required functionalities. Do you think that providing additional support for 802.11ac is good for a GSoC project? Thanks/Cheers! --Mateusz [1]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11 [3]: https://www.bsdcan.org/2012/schedule/attachments/207_BSDCan%202012%20-%20802.11%20status%20update.pdf