Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:36:56 -0700 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status-report 11ac, Intel Message-ID: <5c214e47-45ef-1c89-c9bb-c33f09ee2370@nomadlogic.org> In-Reply-To: <538A5C62-DAD3-4D93-9D9B-90EDA1B31FC3@FreeBSD.org> References: <538A5C62-DAD3-4D93-9D9B-90EDA1B31FC3@FreeBSD.org>
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On 4/27/20 6:17 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > 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. > This is great! Thanks for the status report, can't wait to start testing patches! :) -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA
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