From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 15 06:55:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7012C41A for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:55:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f54.google.com (mail-oa0-f54.google.com [209.85.219.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AD208FC0C for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:55:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id n9so1696774oag.13 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:55:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=5qbZUEq6XHPciq2q/9ZeJPTrgEuhaqM0NsOZz6B6qVo=; b=CPwcxYX1aydw8DPGUl9kwPL7I2OScIhtJA6Qvtkr7r+hmQXfcXdJC+FulbG33TaDc2 k6+sWNyshyZB2pbrWvQvcHYQ2l8jEj/Gx2knUgOVAvsyyto7XkIJMptXnjXl4unhmafL ZXlJ1+yY8agwmbcsDjZXUf7CoI7k6Qb75lf6Ir8JQhwjEW2QKPM/+Mdrq8Uhe5+MAAD9 yI8geeisg3eE/7eYJaMf/LR//69m//Hc8D1/gdUJMvlmwleqWBNxYAPVeKnR7Lu0fTwK 3l2bOSMlbY/3PH+UIWrj2VLr41yMSVLqydc7woGZ8WBO1MiIpr2aaKi1GHb8QjK0oSN8 Rc1A== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.1.72 with SMTP id 8mr123747obk.61.1352962533576; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:55:33 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.76.27.65 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:55:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50A49138.3080700@gmail.com> References: <50A49138.3080700@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:55:33 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: VuqMRQ6hU974LES6h-tYh997Ir0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Today's wireless update - TL;DR - please test -HEAD From: Adrian Chadd To: Joshua Isom Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:55:34 -0000 On 14 November 2012 22:52, Joshua Isom wrote: > I recently purchased a wireless card with an AR9380 chipset. I'm wanting to > try the driver, but would I need to update my whole kernel to -HEAD or just > the directory to -HEAD and keep the rest as -STABLE? I test things out on a combination of HEAD and 9.0-RELEASE / 9-STABLE with -HEAD net80211/ath. The latter is .. tricky, but doable. I suggest that testers just run -HEAD unless they know what they're doing. > I'm using the system as a home server, low use but 24/7 availability as much > as possible. How reliable is it currently? Everything pre-AR9380 is stable. The HAL code for the AR9380 isn't open source - I've been committing the non-HAL code to FreeBSD (ie, reimplementing the driver layer bits) and I'm going though the process at ${WORK} to get an open source version of the AR9380 HAL. So there's no real AR9380 support just yet. I've had people ask if I'll release a binary AR9380 HAL KLD for i386/amd64. The short answer (just for the record) is no - I'm not going down that particular road. :-) Adrian