Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:53:54 +0000 From: Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [rfc] removing the NDISulator Message-ID: <20131018205352.GA44565@mouf.net> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=ZO9aTMjaD0aZ8f-7CbTqLrYUkrHE3%2Bvpx2-6jDDYtiQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ-Vmo=ZO9aTMjaD0aZ8f-7CbTqLrYUkrHE3%2Bvpx2-6jDDYtiQ@mail.gmail.com>
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I would love to have a native driver for this:
none2@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x00101028 chip=0x472714e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller'
class = network
Are there docs or other drivers available that we could look at?
Steve
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:00:20AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to remove the NDISulator. I've had many requests to update it to
> the latest NDIS version and support more of the 64 bit wifi drivers. But,
> to be perfectly honest, I have no desire to keep hacking at this. The world
> has changed quite a bit - we can port/reimplement drivers from Linux and
> other BSDs.
>
> So I plan on deorbiting it - I'll mark it deprecated during 11-HEAD and
> target to have it removed by 11.0-RELEASE.
>
> I'd rather see more of an effort writing new drivers and porting drivers
> from other operating systems.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> -adrian
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