Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:57:43 -0600 From: "Brandon Gooch" <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> To: "Damian Gerow" <dgerow@afflictions.org>, "stable-list freebsd" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: iwn driver on 7.1 [no vaps in RELENG_7] Message-ID: <179b97fb0901191857h2a7ee52cq36767089acaaa04c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090120013823.GA62274@plebeian.afflictions.org> References: <4973AE61.2040805@janh.de> <4974B4B2.5020308@freebsd.org> <20090120013823.GA62274@plebeian.afflictions.org>
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> wrote: > Sam Leffler wrote: > : OTOH iwn is now out of date and someone needs to update it. There's > : newer firmware that is supposed to fix many of the bugs I hit when I > : worked on the driver (and Intel refused to acknowledge) and obsd has > : added support for newer parts that people want. It'd be great if > : someone wanted to take over this driver. > > I've been working on this driver for the past few weeks (Christmas provided > a healthy distraction), but it's a steep learning curve for a novice C > coder. If anyone wants to work on this, let me know, as I have a small > portion of the work already done. > > - Damian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I'd like to work on this as well. I just pulled down the iwn code from OpenBSD current a little while ago and started hacking on it. I haven't made a lot of progress, so I'll gladly work with you on it. I'm a decent C programmer, but my lack of knowledge of kernel internals, functions, and data structures is my stumbling block. That's one of the main reasons I'm all about getting this driver working -- it gives me yet another chance to get into the kernel source and learn something new. Where do we begin?
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