Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:36:41 +0300 From: "Andriy Voskoboinyk" <avos@freebsd.org> To: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: urtwn(4) / rtwn(4) drivers are merged - call for review / testing Message-ID: <op.yn1vbfgp4dikkl@localhost> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmonwJ54tzF68g4mEoke6h6p53ZJnrQMjQaxzB4aQpBJoTg@mail.gmail.com> References: <op.yjivmw1k4dikkl@localhost> <op.yjvko8zt4dikkl@localhost> <op.ym4deppz4dikkl@localhost> <op.yn1gyoq04dikkl@localhost> <CAJ-VmonwJ54tzF68g4mEoke6h6p53ZJnrQMjQaxzB4aQpBJoTg@mail.gmail.com>
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> hi,
>
> I'll try it out tonight! Is the rtwn repo still "ok" to try as a
> standalone thing?
>
Yes, sys/{dev/rtwn,modules} subtree is the same.
> The usbdevs patch is fine standalone - would you like to just commit
> this in advance?
>
Done in r305991.
>
>
>
> -adrian
>
>
> On 19 September 2016 at 06:26, Andriy Voskoboinyk <avos@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>> Thu, 01 Sep 2016 19:29:03 +0300 було написано Andriy Voskoboinyk
>> <avos@freebsd.org>:
>>
>> Now it resides on https://github.com/s3erios/freebsd-rtwn (integrated
>> into src tree, so it can be built with 'make buildkernel' / 'make
>> buildworld').
>>
>> This the last stage; once all reported issues will be resolved, I'm
>> going to merge it into HEAD.
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> rtwn(4), urtwn(4) and urtwm (from previous emails) drivers were merged
>>> into a
>>> single rtwn driver (plus rtwn_usb / rtwn_pci device glue); the code is
>>> available on https://github.com/s3erios/rtwn repository. Among
>>> bugfixes /
>>> code deduplication, there some new features too:
>>>
>>> 1) multi-vap support (one any wireless interface + one STA interface +
>>> any number of monitor mode interfaces).
>>> 2) few new sysctls:
>>> * dev.rtwn.#.crypto - controls how to use hardware crypto
>>> acceleration
>>> * dev.rtwn.#.ratectl_selected
>>> * dev.rtwn.#.ratectl - selects current 'rate control' algorithm
>>> (currently only 'none' and 'net80211' are supported; RTL8192CE needs
>>> testing
>>> with the last).
>>> 3) (incomplete) power management support for RTL8188EU (requires
>>> firmware).
>>> 4) Short Guard Interval support.
>>>
>>> It's known to work with RTL8188CUS, RTL8188EU and RTL8821AU; however,
>>> it was never tested with RTL8192CE or RTL8812AU.
>>>
>>> How-to-build:
>>> 1) download / checkout the repository.
>>> 2) apply 'patch-usbdevs.diff' against '/usr/src'
>>> 3) build and install rtwn module:
>>> cd $repository/sys/modules/rtwn && make && make install
>>> 4) build and install rtwn_usb/rtwn_pci:
>>> cd ../rtwn_usb && make && make install
>>> cd ../rtwn_pci && make && make install
>>> 5) unload previous && load current drivers:
>>> kldunload if_urtwn if_rtwn
>>> kldload /boot/modules/if_rtwn.ko /boot/modules/if_rtwn_usb.ko
>>> /boot/modules/if_rtwn_pci.ko
>>> 6) Use.
>>
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