Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 23:33:08 +0200 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> Cc: driesm.michiels@gmail.com, freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current state of recent wireless cards Message-ID: <20200710233308.b27284cd15dec5849fb5cc32@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFC648B-1A32-4FF3-AC98-23A2B93732D5@FreeBSD.org> References: <000501d655e3$90c40170$b24c0450$@gmail.com> <CAFC648B-1A32-4FF3-AC98-23A2B93732D5@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 09 Jul 2020 11:36:59 +0000 "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > 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. That's a bit optimistic that attach and firmware loading is half of the work no ? I don't know how much linuxkpi layer is needed for 80211 compat but I guess it's "a lot" ? > 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). IIRC Linux have multiple 80211 framework no ? I guess your work only focus on one (used by iwlwifi), do you know how many drivers used the same one ? What about FullMAC drivers like the SDIO broadcom one used in many ARM SBC, is that using the same framework ? > The hope is that we?ll have full 11ac before the end of the year. Hope or goal ? :) > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>help
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