on Wi-Fi 5 support for rtw88 and rtw89= drivers. Currently, the rtw89 driver can successfully receive data and han= dle Block Acknowledgement (a feature for efficient data transfer), but tran= smission speeds remain stuck at the slowest basic rates and won't incre= ase. We are being cautious with fixes because the changes affect core syste= ms shared with other drivers (e.g. the iwlwifi driver), so improvements are= being rolled out gradually in smaller pieces to avoid breaking existing fu= nctionality.

GitHub issue: [#99](https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pr= oj-laptop/issues/99)

#### Support for MediaTek Wi-Fi cards
Wo= rk on mt76 driver (which will support MT7921/7922 chipsets) for Wi-Fi 4/5 s= upport is progressing alongside the RealTek development, with much of the w= ork applicable to both. Some improvements to LinuxKPI infrastructure (speci= fically `struct page` handling) have been completed. Progress remains block= ed by pending additional LinuxKPI infrastructure work, specifically page po= ol implementation and drm-kmod integration requirements.

GitHub issu= e: [#66](https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues/66)
### Graphics
#### Port of Linux 6.11 Graphics Drivers
Work on portin= g the Linux 6.11 graphics driver has started with work on drm-kmod.

= GitHub issue: [#52](
https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues= /52)

### System management
#### Making pkgbasify safer to use=
Development work continued on pkgbasify, a tool designed to convert exi= sting non-pkgbase FreeBSD installations to use pkgbase with minimal risk. T= he focus shifted toward implementing a safer conversion approach using pack= age registration rather than file overwriting. The approach involves implem= enting support for `pkg install --register-only`, which allows registering = packages in the pkg database without modifying filesystem files.

Git= Hub issue: [#91](https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues/91= )

### Integration testing

#### Holistic testing for laptop pr= oject functionality
Our testing project is starting in January, please s= ee the dedicated GitHub repo for more details:

https://github.com/FreeB= SDFoundation/freebsd-laptop-testing

## Acknowledgements

T= he FreeBSD Foundation would like to extend its thanks to everyone who has c= ontributed to this project, both this month and previously.

Thanks g= o out to:
* Our developers
=C2=A0 * Alfonso Siciliano
=C2=A0 * Aym= eric Wibo
=C2=A0 * Bjoern Zeeb
=C2=A0 * Christos Margiolis
=C2=A0 = * Isaac Freund
=C2=A0 * Jean-Sebastien Pedron
=C2=A0 * Li-Wen Hsu
= =C2=A0 * Mitchell Horne
=C2=A0 * Olivier Certner
=C2=A0 * Siva Mahade= van
=C2=A0 * Tom Jones
* The project team:
=C2=A0 * Deb Goodkin=C2=A0 * Ed Maste
=C2=A0 * Joe Mingrone
=C2=A0 * Alice Sowerby
* = The Laptop and Desktop Working Group
=C2=A0 * Chris Moerz
=C2=A0 * Al= l attendees
* The FreeBSD Project
* Quantum Leap Research
* AMD, w= ho have helped in troubleshooting sleep issues.
* Dell, who have donated= the UVC kernel driver.
* Future Crew, who provided the iwx
driver s= ource code.
* Netflix, who have been testing our scheduler patchsets
=

Please refer to the [README](https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj= -laptop/README.md) for more information about the FreeBSD Foundation= 9;s Laptop Project.

----------------------------

Alice Sowe= rby

Part-time Technical Progra= m Manager

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