From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 5 03:16:48 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93037E6 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 03:16:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qe0-f53.google.com (mail-qe0-f53.google.com [209.85.128.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C1B1F24 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 03:16:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qe0-f53.google.com with SMTP id 1so731218qee.26 for ; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:16:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=CAPb2wbBnwurctVOqy5NGGhMkdU8z7kS2GFAmUoHGdM=; b=rRlux/Or80EUR+BN/aI8YM7j+0FDxA35z64jiZW5HI9cfwHUyBuztxpIADLxphTsc9 wRTJtnazk6pV+KpQbhPTDDV9BglUcToff2+hpylUVeFkv33warAB17VSuIyliRlRDU8S s+r/GKZ+gZDFIN75zgFjkqWI0M9XrLcU0Yopy5idTGW2t4CJF7pC4zl+J8BkbvmjM14+ HFMXj8k7CPauG2f3DiHtstEK1LpbNCvAG2gWtpvmTzlMo4PlSpjBCD4Z5Px24hWlwboY 75yKlz0g5CWUcV2lTzK/mGvZlsPF1zz2qhR+7cf0gvi+wtL0+JYuBS9ysfK6KuPTCvFP 7gSA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.49.37.9 with SMTP id u9mr29578626qej.57.1370402202679; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.71.12 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 20:16:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 20:16:42 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: -MQJqE8jPjg--8gMbpuoPCC7JrM Message-ID: Subject: Re: netmap on wireless NIC From: Adrian Chadd To: Chao Xu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 03:16:49 -0000 THere's no argument against it. There's just no carl9170 driver at the moment. Some NICs use ring buffers, some use FIFOs, some use descriptor lists. The atheros stuff uses lists/FIFOs, no rings. 2c, Adrian On 4 June 2013 14:06, Chao Xu wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to hacking some wireless NIC driver (carl9170 for example) > to enable netmap on it? I guess this is possible because wireless drivers > also manage packets using ring buffers. My goal is to access the raw > packets as quickly as possible, not to achieve high data rate. Is there any > argument against doing so? Thank you. > > Regards, > Chao > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"