From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Thu Jul 9 11:37:04 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5134367838 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 11:37:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [96.47.72.83]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B2Z005lxTz3dtT; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 11:37:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mx1.sbone.de (cross.sbone.de [195.201.62.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx1.sbone.de", Issuer "SBone.DE" (not verified)) (Authenticated sender: bz/mail) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8F1C521F7A; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 11:37:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.sbone.de (mail.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:587]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23B4F8D4A157; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 11:37:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from content-filter.sbone.de (content-filter.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:2742]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6511E707B0; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 11:37:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sbone.de Received: from mail.sbone.de ([IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:587]) by content-filter.sbone.de (content-filter.sbone.de [fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:2742]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4Xw-1VZQpuC0; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 11:37:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [169.254.55.72] (unknown [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:4902:f8d3:f2a1:4176:5237]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D98A7E707AC; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 11:37:00 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" To: driesm.michiels@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current state of recent wireless cards Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 11:36:59 +0000 X-Mailer: MailMate (2.0BETAr6146) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <000501d655e3$90c40170$b24c0450$@gmail.com> References: <000501d655e3$90c40170$b24c0450$@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 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: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 11:37:05 -0000 On 9 Jul 2020, at 11:24, driesm.michiels@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dreis, > I was wondering what the current state of the following wireless cards > is: > > * Intel Wireless-AC 9560 (T490 wifi card) > * Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (T14 wifi card) I am currently working under FreeBSD Foundation Sponsorship to get us full Intel HW support for all the new cards and up to 11ac wireless. The first half is done ( see https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2020-July/009233.html ) which is the PCI attachments work, the firmware loads and starts. Now there’s a dual-case to be finished: net80211 11ac infrastructure to finish, which Adrian has started the last years, and we’ll see how much of a Linux compat layer we’ll manage to have (which would also help other drivers to be ported over more easily). The hope is that we’ll have full 11ac before the end of the year. > But besides that and AX support for the future I don't see any extra > value. I cannot say anything about 11ax yet, but certainly once 11ac is done that’s on the roadmap. /bz PS: I’d be careful with assuming that all the 9560s are supported; depends on the chipset; if it is, yes 11g still.