Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:53:55 +0800 From: Dave Jones <s.dave.jones@gmail.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: onboard wireless on rpi4 Message-ID: <CANf5e8arMkJWD5XKaoy1QyKTpJ94AtHjbG1GshyyrNEMnh=fqw@mail.gmail.com>
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Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On 4 Sep 2020, at 17:35, Klaus Cucinauomo via freebsd-arm wrote: > >> Yep, my question if really no one else is working on it, was directed to Bj=C3=B6rn ;-), >> because I don=E2=80=99t want to work on a completely different implement= ation, >> if Bj=C3=B6rn is perhaps a few steps further. > > SDIO attach worked last year; WiFi (cfg80211) wasn=E2=80=99t finished. = And I am not tired of hearing people ask for it. You have all the right to do so. > > I recently got a PCIe card (different bus attachment) but it should help to move forward on the WiFi parts as well. Yes, it is a free time project at the moment but it also benefits from other ongoing WiFi work. > > > Two things which may help for the RPi/SDIO parts are: >> > - please try and use MMCCAM kernels and help, test, debug, report, .. all the things you find so (other people) can jump in as well so we can switch that on as default. Without that, no SDIO. > > - in case you are not only into RPi, the nanopi/rk33xx platforms with onboard SDIO WiFi need tiny little glue bits to turn the bits on; would be great if someone could just do that. Regarding https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2020-May/009122.html, are you really working on it? You've been working on using linuxkpi to support Intel wifi [1], and it seems that you also work on ath10k port [2]. Would you tell us what your first priority is? Thanks! [1] https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2020-04-2020-06.html#Intel-wirel= ess-and-11ac-update [2] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2020-September/009377.= html
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