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Zeeb" Subject: git: 2804d7abd5 - main - LinuxKPI based wireless status update. List-Id: Commit messages for all branches of the doc repository List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-doc-all List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: dev-commits-doc-all@freebsd.org Sender: owner-dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Git-Committer: bz X-Git-Repository: doc X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/main X-Git-Reftype: branch X-Git-Commit: 2804d7abd500adf6f5c36ecfb5cb2a8d28e71cb6 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated The branch main has been updated by bz: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=2804d7abd500adf6f5c36ecfb5cb2a8d28e71cb6 commit 2804d7abd500adf6f5c36ecfb5cb2a8d28e71cb6 Author: Bjoern A. Zeeb AuthorDate: 2025-09-30 22:06:03 +0000 Commit: Bjoern A. Zeeb CommitDate: 2025-10-04 15:44:01 +0000 LinuxKPI based wireless status update. Reviewed by: salvadore Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52809 --- .../status/report-2025-07-2025-09/lkpi-wireless.adoc | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/lkpi-wireless.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/lkpi-wireless.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d1c78852d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/lkpi-wireless.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +=== LinuxKPI 802.11 and Native Wireless Update + +Contact: Bjoern A. Zeeb + +Contact: The FreeBSD wireless mailing list + +This report focuses on the efforts using permissively licensed Linux wireless drivers, mostly unmodified, on FreeBSD, as well as preparing the native net80211 stack for support of newer standards. + +Work is ongoing for Mediatek mt76-based PCIe card support. + +LinuxKPI 802.11 (man:linuxkpi_wlan[4]) updates were comitted for scanning and beacon handling improvements and more robustness. + +LinuxKPI updates were done in order to import newer versions of man:iwlwifi[4], man:rtw88[4], and man:rtw89[4] drivers. +Work on suspend and resume for LinuxKPI-based wireless drivers has a possible solution which will need community testing and feedback. +Both updates were blocked by out-of-tree drm LinuxKPI PCI conflicts and problems were just resolved before EuroBSDCon 2025 thus the work will likely appear beginning of 25Q4. + +I gave a talk on wireless at EuroBSDCon 2025 and had a good chat with wireless people from NetBSD and OpenBSD. + +There is increasing interest again in getting brcmfmac support sorted, as well as more requests for ath11k. + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation