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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 02:13:48 -0000 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 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 >