From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Mon Mar 20 00:51:45 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7361AD14873 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:51:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mpp302@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-f45.google.com (mail-wm0-f45.google.com [74.125.82.45]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F87A261 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:51:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mpp302@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-f45.google.com with SMTP id n11so52128817wma.1 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:51:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=B2tZE3OtyO7XxSXTTkpL5620pEWJj4MXN/3JHPXl74k=; b=N6F12ONMJTmDmE4bqu1XrgtQDxjER2HJFg0wjbpQwUkl8tFVKVVse/QdQiFS1HpdV4 d/5DcJqeMva8DYjB/b8fnab51vVwls8eXSVTIzBN8SphYQmayZKs3ByiluZg92n0nViw erFFHNeRgHwDbRepv385HQwVWndBZMPnyaQd35FNuK2lMW0WSs+UfwMDFg+JmYbIn9h2 Tsdw2sgLlm9XKIqasxMw+E7lw38bplo7n8JaeeK/Ul+BK7zXjcBJMK+szEVTTUDc8ryA KFndal6IlHosy5eFilG4epW0l1OJvAAZrvbWRZ0NcbAYV4lSXAVA8K874b1CZKuEyA4Z uRdQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AFeK/H2UFY/J4sNHMpdudxn6cFzjwOAkBnkUf8gu85Qn6adN5KUJ8GX+fNooZ+Si7wUwvw== X-Received: by 10.28.105.8 with SMTP id e8mr5121780wmc.122.1489970626633; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:43:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (mail-wm0-f43.google.com. [74.125.82.43]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h65sm17123704wrh.32.2017.03.19.17.43.46 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:43:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f43.google.com with SMTP id n11so52786808wma.0 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:43:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.28.125.212 with SMTP id y203mr8121048wmc.90.1489970626088; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:43:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.80.144.225 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:43:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 01:43:45 +0100 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: Doing 802.11ac drivers for GSoC 2017 To: Adrian Chadd Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:51:45 -0000 Hi, I've just spoke to ivadasz from DragonFly BSD. He answered a lot of my questions. I've put some notes on my Wiki [1]. On 5 March 2017 at 03:01, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Ok! So there's already a driver, iwm, and hopefully slowly it'll grow > 11n and 11ac support. Right now it just supports 11a and 11bg. I'm > updating our driver to sync with dragonflybsd and hopefully that'll > pull in intel 3160 support if it's not already working! >From what I understand, it should be working after a normal boot - it just happen to refuse to work during the installation process. > The good news > here though is you don't have to start from a blank slate as we > already have a working driver. :) > > So, if you'd like to propose say, adding 11n and maybe 11ac to iwm, > then I could be on board with that. My conversation with ivadasz revealed that I'd have to port 11n from OpenBSD and Linux. I'll do more research on that tomorrow. > We'd want to check with the other > maintainers though since they may have some plans too :) I learnt that toothe is working on rtl8188ee at the moment. Cheers! -Mateusz [1]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/MateuszPiotrowski/Drivers