From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Thu Apr 30 17:37:09 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA3C2C3C42 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:37:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [174.136.98.114]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail.nomadlogic.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49CjHm2sDPz3Lbh; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:37:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [192.168.1.160] (cpe-23-243-162-239.socal.res.rr.com [23.243.162.239]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 4a346bfd (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:37:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: status-report 11ac, Intel To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" , freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org References: <538A5C62-DAD3-4D93-9D9B-90EDA1B31FC3@FreeBSD.org> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <5c214e47-45ef-1c89-c9bb-c33f09ee2370@nomadlogic.org> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:36:56 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <538A5C62-DAD3-4D93-9D9B-90EDA1B31FC3@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49CjHm2sDPz3Lbh X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of pete@nomadlogic.org designates 174.136.98.114 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=pete@nomadlogic.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.08 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[239.162.243.23.khpj7ygk5idzvmvt5x4ziurxhy.zen.dq.spamhaus.net : 127.0.0.10]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[nomadlogic.org]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; IP_SCORE(-2.78)[ip: (-9.26), ipnet: 174.136.96.0/20(-4.19), asn: 25795(-0.42), country: US(-0.05)]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:25795, ipnet:174.136.96.0/20, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:37:09 -0000 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