Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:51:14 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r43518 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201401141951.s0EJpEJH027172@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Tue Jan 14 19:51:14 2014 New Revision: 43518 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43518 Log: - Add 2013Q4 report on iwn(4) improvements Submitted by: adrian Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Tue Jan 14 19:41:08 2014 (r43517) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Tue Jan 14 19:51:14 2014 (r43518) @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 29 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 30 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p> @@ -1603,4 +1603,49 @@ device vt_vga</pre> other devices.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>Intel 802.11n NIC (<tt>iwn(4)</tt>) Work</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Adrian</given> + <common>Chadd</common> + </name> + <email>adrian@freebsd.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links/> + + <body> + <p>There has been a large amount of work on <tt>iwn(4)</tt> over + the last six months:</p> + + <ul> + <li>New hardware support, 2xxx, 6xxx, 1xx series hardware.</li> + + <li>Many bugs fixed, including scanning, association, EAPOL related + fixes.</li> + + <li><tt>iwn(4)</tt> now natively works with 802.11n rates from the + net80211 rate control code, rather than mapping non-11n rates to 11n + rates.</li> + </ul> + </body> + + <help> + <task>There are still some scan hangs, due to how net80211 scans a + single channel at a time. This needs to be resolved.</task> + + <task>The transmit, receive, scan and calibration code need to be + refactored out of <tt>if_iwn.c</tt> and into separate source + files.</task> + + <task>There still seem to be some issues surrounding 2 GHz + vs. 5 GHz association attempts leading to firmware + assertions, especially on the Intel 4965 NIC.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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