Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 11:06:04 +0100 From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Doing 802.11ac drivers for GSoC 2017 Message-ID: <CAD9iB3fNmjfZkacZWXzGSG6QfVpzxgphH3=xRhR6WjjK07TJow@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=QXt3u_3hUUax=-3he0-ipW0xLnxuGG36gQhpCO5encg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAD9iB3chOKs9BZSco8TZmHnpYSCK_chfkrM_2cS%2Bg2-Xb3FCiw@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomrUrp8EGFPzHvHLWhZMO5u0aDgdsTz_d3O1hCttSWVvw@mail.gmail.com> <CAD9iB3dOXW=yTbiudvc9BT=xkZYc9SURsNSBOx%2B6VAnzVBSErg@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=QXt3u_3hUUax=-3he0-ipW0xLnxuGG36gQhpCO5encg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi! On 5 March 2017 at 03:01, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrote: > hi! > > Ok! So there's already a driver, iwm, and hopefully slowly it'll grow > 11n and 11ac support. Right now it just supports 11a and 11bg. I'm > updating our driver to sync with dragonflybsd and hopefully that'll > pull in intel 3160 support if it's not already working! The good news > here though is you don't have to start from a blank slate as we > already have a working driver. :) > Oh! That's pretty cool I guess. > So, if you'd like to propose say, adding 11n and maybe 11ac to iwm, > then I could be on board with that. Could you kindly suggest me a reference to learn about the driver development? The whole idea sounds great but I'm not sure how am I supposed to start. I've only browsed the web (without much success) and scanned through Kevin's rtwn-rtl8192eu.diff [4] (as one of the wifi interfaces I use benefits from it). Or should my reading list consist m mainly of what I can find in the FreeBSD source code? > We'd want to check with the other > maintainers though since they may have some plans too :) > Sure! --Mateusz [4]: https://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/rtwn-rtl8192eu.diff
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