From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Sun Mar 5 10:06:14 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 53E5ACF96C6 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2017 10:06:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mpp302@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wr0-f171.google.com (mail-wr0-f171.google.com [209.85.128.171]) (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 E49AC1CBE for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2017 10:06:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mpp302@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wr0-f171.google.com with SMTP id l37so98622944wrc.1 for ; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 02:06:13 -0800 (PST) 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=WxhSFla6xktXeXPeUCd4UCGJT+hCnVY8FY2Y54WDVnc=; b=uT1iNEVP4mzaDat4az7crOenykANvnHUKVq25aPrXU/6zAmcW1PtQN4wW2+MaA68um sU2oNboay8AynQEGGcOga3k1zbVmDSWYc5zWvNn/2RuRI991MF9PRGOR1KivsSn5Vilt dc8OD7Wen9GHWYhRFqO2Z4N6RC04fxtOLtIHi5D8wm6UgbBtrojYKsluoixfXzHIxcK7 u/eIEL3aH6C/aKEpjZIpwbCtxNV5a8br/g+wIK1LvrhD5mcl9AI0BTzAE76lSKJkSOiF yEx/bk0iR8Cyfiz4nqSABljOlskEV0SSEynCxAgiGDCWg0DBzWJIuZ3g7fsr/jfwmCUi NmKw== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39kJNiWBUCMIBBK/vG6aqXaVbvcdcSMuLBscUUdCgzjuZe0j5r+bf22lC9EZ94KQQA== X-Received: by 10.223.153.17 with SMTP id x17mr9700540wrb.55.1488708365517; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 02:06:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-wr0-f175.google.com (mail-wr0-f175.google.com. [209.85.128.175]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x133sm10289085wme.22.2017.03.05.02.06.05 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 05 Mar 2017 02:06:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wr0-f175.google.com with SMTP id u48so98583810wrc.0 for ; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 02:06:05 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.223.139.68 with SMTP id v4mr10625564wra.70.1488708365103; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 02:06:05 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.80.134.113 with HTTP; Sun, 5 Mar 2017 02:06:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 11:06:04 +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: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 10:06:14 -0000 Hi! On 5 March 2017 at 03:01, Adrian Chadd wrote: > hi! > > 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! The good news > here though is you don't have to start from a blank slate as we > already have a working driver. :) > Oh! That's pretty cool I guess. > So, if you'd like to propose say, adding 11n and maybe 11ac to iwm, > then I could be on board with that. Could you kindly suggest me a reference to learn about the driver development? The whole idea sounds great but I'm not sure how am I supposed to start. I've only browsed the web (without much success) and scanned through Kevin's rtwn-rtl8192eu.diff [4] (as one of the wifi interfaces I use benefits from it). Or should my reading list consist m mainly of what I can find in the FreeBSD source code? > We'd want to check with the other > maintainers though since they may have some plans too :) > Sure! --Mateusz [4]: https://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/rtwn-rtl8192eu.diff