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Date:      Fri, 15 Apr 2022 19:41:27 +0900
From:      Takashi Inoue <inoue.takashi@nihon-u.ac.jp>
To:        wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: stable/13 synched up to with main again; more to come to main
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Hi All,

> Not really; this is new hardware that we didn't support rather than
> existing hardware that's broken. As long as iwlwifi doesn't attach to
> hardware that worked well on iwm in this release, it's an EN at best
> but maybe more appropriate to just continue baking until 13.2.

I believe that the SNR problem of iwlwifi driver is common for all 
devices rather than special to those which can work with iwm driver.
So, I hope the fix goes into 13.1R.
I know it is difficult at this time. Just a hope.

Best,
Takashi


On 4/15/22 07:34, Kyle Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 5:29 PM Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:20:59 +0000 (UTC)
>> "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I believe I have merged all outstanding changes from main to stable/13
>>> (apart from rtw88).
>>>
>>> In case you were applying patches or cherry-picked changes to stable/13
>>> beware of this with your next update.
>>>
>>> I think the only main visible change will be the fix of the SNR
>>> (thanks to J.R. Oldroyd) so if you use other tools your signal bars
>>> may be more reasonable.  I am not expecting any other noticable changes
>>> with these MFCs.
>>>
>>> Note: that at this point none of these changes will make it to
>>> 13.1-RELEASE anymore.  If you want to keep track you'll likely have to
>>> follow main or stable/13 or live with as-is on the release branch.
>>>
>>>
>>> I also have two or three changes I'll try to put into main tonight
>>> still.  I'll let you know about git hashes again in case you want to
>>> give them an early test on stable/13 again.
>>>
>>>
>>> Later,
>>> Bjoern
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7
>>>
>>
>> Can't this be a show-stopper issue that requires some more additional
>> RCs?
>>
> 
> Not really; this is new hardware that we didn't support rather than
> existing hardware that's broken. As long as iwlwifi doesn't attach to
> hardware that worked well on iwm in this release, it's an EN at best
> but maybe more appropriate to just continue baking until 13.2.
> 


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