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Wed, 1 Jan 2025 11:56:33 GMT (envelope-from git) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 11:56:33 GMT Message-Id: <202501011156.501BuXds030125@gitrepo.freebsd.org> To: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org From: Lorenzo Salvadore Subject: git: 5e5ec5adfa - main - Status/2024Q4/wireless-iwx.adoc: Add report List-Id: Commit messages for all branches of the doc repository List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-doc-all List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: dev-commits-doc-all@freebsd.org Sender: owner-dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Git-Committer: salvadore X-Git-Repository: doc X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/main X-Git-Reftype: branch X-Git-Commit: 5e5ec5adfa5fc0bd6ecd33f9ef9c32179c7f4686 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated The branch main has been updated by salvadore: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=5e5ec5adfa5fc0bd6ecd33f9ef9c32179c7f4686 commit 5e5ec5adfa5fc0bd6ecd33f9ef9c32179c7f4686 Author: Tom Jones AuthorDate: 2025-01-01 11:30:42 +0000 Commit: Lorenzo Salvadore CommitDate: 2025-01-01 11:34:23 +0000 Status/2024Q4/wireless-iwx.adoc: Add report Reviewed by: status (Pau Amma ) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48144 --- .../status/report-2024-10-2024-12/wireless-iwx.adoc | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/wireless-iwx.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/wireless-iwx.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2eb08c80f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/wireless-iwx.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +=== Wireless Update + +Contact: Tom Jones +Contact: The FreeBSD wireless mailing list + +With Support from the FreeBSD Foundation this quarter I started working on porting the iwx WiFi driver from OpenBSD (via Haiku). +The iwx driver supports many of the chipsets supported by iwlwifi, but rather than make that driver more complex the OpenBSD developers decided to support these devices in a new driver. + +iwx on OpenBSD currently supports running as a station in 80211abgn and ac, it does not yet support ax rates. +The goals of this project are to import a maintainable driver from OpenBSD and to gradually increase support until we have a native driver in FreeBSD with support for 80211ac (and potentially 80211ax). + +Currently the driver supports 80211a and 80211g and is able to saturate the practical limits of the rates these standards offers (roughly 28Mbit down and 25 Mbit up). +The driver is under active development and moving quite quickly. + +The plan for the next quarter is to add support for high throughput rates, implement monitor mode and stabilise the driver for a public call for testing. + +Once the driver is stable enough a call for testing will be posted to the link:https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-current[freebsd-current] and link:https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-wireless[freebsd-wireless] mailing lists. + + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation