From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 27 19:22:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0618106566B for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:22:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD5E8FC1A for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:22:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC314C7BF7 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:22:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:22:44 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=KYrbdde8i1tDo4TZu+8UlorZ0Ew=; b=WRoJU12I51PwRHeXx0DfXSplnfs/6HLX7KrcsYJfRkze+eto+qWwfusoDoRsQ2mS58Y62E05s+BbWiy0LX7dZd/l0Hi1ypiw4ZOWHg1Df7CmB53c1VDp5UTO9UmDVfjMmqKxyIQV6JtlPsXCnxxh07ictYhvttJ8OJyud7IsgEg= X-Sasl-enc: XrK1aSy8pnrtPqFc5F9Y95yczqmOL3yjBiZ+a1ed9FVd 1261941764 Received: from [192.168.123.18] (cpc2-dals7-0-0-cust253.hari.cable.virginmedia.com [82.35.112.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7122D173DA for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:22:44 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B37B3FE.3030308@incunabulum.net> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:22:38 +0000 From: Bruce Simpson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20091223035331.GA1293@weongyo> <20091226034930.GA11506@weongyo> In-Reply-To: <20091226034930.GA11506@weongyo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:22:45 -0000 On 26/12/2009 03:49, Weongyo Jeong wrote: > Frankly speaking I didn't know siba(4) during I'd written ssb(4). It's > my bad and I think you opinion is right to go forward though siba(4) > missed 802.11 related codes. Before committing bwn(4) into tree I'd > merge codes into siba(4) firstly. > I wrote some of the siba(4) stuff originally, a few years ago, when trying to get FreeBSD booting on the Netgear WGT824, which has a Broadcom BCM5365P (aka Sentry5) embedded system processor, and contains Sonics SiliconBackPlane for its onboard peripherals. I had based some of it off a patch I think David Young came up with for NetBSD on the same beast. I got as far as getting the onboard bfe(4) to do NEWBUS attachment on the siba(4) bus, but because I hadn't gotten IRQ allocation/routing working on BCM5365P, bfe(4) didn't fully attach. Interestingly it looked like ubsec(4) might have worked with just a few tweaks, for the otherwise ppoorly] [un]documented crypto hardware on the Sentry5 chip. I believe other folk have taken what was there in the FreeBSD MIPS branch and run with it since then, so siba(4) might be closer to completion now. cheers, BMS