From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 18 20:54:05 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 853AC55C; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:54:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swills@mouf.net) Received: from mouf.net (mouf.net [IPv6:2607:fc50:0:4400:216:3eff:fe69:33b3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 484A12D43; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:54:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mouf.net (swills@mouf [199.48.129.64]) by mouf.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r9IKrtMo049810 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:54:00 GMT (envelope-from swills@mouf.net) Received: (from swills@localhost) by mouf.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id r9IKrtUv049809; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:53:55 GMT (envelope-from swills) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:53:54 +0000 From: Steve Wills To: Adrian Chadd Subject: Re: [rfc] removing the NDISulator Message-ID: <20131018205352.GA44565@mouf.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (mouf.net [199.48.129.64]); Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:54:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=4.5 tests=none autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mouf.net X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.8 at mouf.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" , freebsd-current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:54:05 -0000 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"