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Date:      Wed, 6 May 2020 10:13:33 +0800
From:      Dave Jones <s.dave.jones@gmail.com>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: status-report 11ac, Intel
Message-ID:  <CANf5e8Yb0uY2WKXBmcBm-YSQ0C4nVxz0Ciu2J8ZHxnKijhCSyQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200506020702.GA45248@ns.kevlo.org>
References:  <20200506020702.GA45248@ns.kevlo.org>

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Thanks for the update.  For me I only care about the wifi on RPi.
Could you tell us what the current status about Broadcom fullmac wifi
support [1]?
It's weird that it have been developed for almost a year, without any patch
available.

[1]
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2019-04-2019-06.html#FreeBSD-SDI=
O-and-Broadcom-FullMAC-WiFi-Support

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 1:17 PM  Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> some of you had seen the tweet from the Foundation a longer while ago (or
> the
> phoronix article [1]) that they are sponsoring 11ac work and =E2=80=9Cit=
=E2=80=99s me=E2=80=9D
> who=E2=80=99s
> looking at it now part-time.
>
> For this work the initial focus will be on getting 11ac (non-AP) support
> into
> our stack.
> We=E2=80=99ll be using the Intel=E2=80=99s mvm driver (know as iwm in Fre=
eBSD currently)
> as a
> reference for that work.
>
> In addition we=E2=80=99ll also try to make sure to support newer chipsets=
 as
> supported
> by iwlwifi.
> As some of you might be aware that Idwer has work in progress to port ove=
r
> iwx
> from OpenBSD and from iwlwifi [2] and that is amazing and he=E2=80=99s do=
ne a lot
> of
> work, and I hope I can work with him in this process to sort out issues a=
nd
> build a common ground for 11ac.
>
> I=E2=80=99ll send a status update as there are things to report;  probabl=
y more
> regularly as there is something working and to test.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Bjoern
>
> PS:  there is a way longer-term perspective I=E2=80=99d like to get feedb=
ack for,
> mostly independent of this, and I=E2=80=99ll send a separate email for th=
is.
>
> [1]
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=3Dnews_item&px=3D802.11ac-FreeBSD-=
Sponsor
> [2] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D244261
>



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