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Subject: Advice for writing wireless drivers?
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I was thinking of trying to port (some of) brcmsmac to FreeBSD in order to
support BCM43224, but I then realized that I don't know very much about
Linux wireless drivers. Does anyone know if there is a good resource
explaining the major differences between FreeBSD and Linux device drivers?