From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Mon Apr 27 13:17:54 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0CA92B808F for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:17:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [96.47.72.83]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 499lh23mrFz41fp for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:17:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mx1.sbone.de (mx1.sbone.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:13b:39f::9f:25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx1.sbone.de", Issuer "SBone.DE" (not verified)) (Authenticated sender: bz/mail) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 62E6C1E182 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:17:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.sbone.de (mail.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:587]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EF3EB8D4A290 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:17:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from content-filter.sbone.de (content-filter.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:2742]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D5AFE707D3 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:17:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sbone.de Received: from mail.sbone.de ([IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:587]) by content-filter.sbone.de (content-filter.sbone.de [fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:2742]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kQFCNTorGpBC for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:17:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [169.254.219.26] (unknown [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:4902:e841:8270:be49:c245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3D47FE707E5 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:17:50 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: status-report 11ac, Intel Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:17:49 +0000 X-Mailer: MailMate (2.0BETAr6146) Message-ID: <538A5C62-DAD3-4D93-9D9B-90EDA1B31FC3@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:17:54 -0000 Hi, some of you had seen the tweet from the Foundation a longer while ago (or the phoronix article [1]) that they are sponsoring 11ac work and “it’s me” who’s looking at it now part-time. For this work the initial focus will be on getting 11ac (non-AP) support into our stack. We’ll be using the Intel’s mvm driver (know as iwm in FreeBSD currently) as a reference for that work. In addition we’ll also try to make sure to support newer chipsets as supported by iwlwifi. As some of you might be aware that Idwer has work in progress to port over iwx from OpenBSD and from iwlwifi [2] and that is amazing and he’s done a lot of work, and I hope I can work with him in this process to sort out issues and build a common ground for 11ac. I’ll send a status update as there are things to report; probably more regularly as there is something working and to test. Best Regards, Bjoern PS: there is a way longer-term perspective I’d like to get feedback for, mostly independent of this, and I’ll send a separate email for this. [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=802.11ac-FreeBSD-Sponsor [2] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244261