amd64/155498: ral(4) needs to be resynced with OpenBSD's to gain RT2860/2870 support.

[Edward O'Callaghan]

>Number:         155498
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       ral(4) needs to be resynced with OpenBSD's to gain RT2860/2870 support.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 12 17:20:09 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Edward O'Callaghan
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD  8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011     root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
My friend has a Asus PCE-N13 which is technically a RaLink RT2860 chipset. He wants to run FreeBSD as Linux wifi is full of problems. I told him to check the Hardware notes and he said the RT2860 isn't supported however it is on OpenBSD.

According to ral(4) on FreeBSD 8.2:
AUTHORS
     The original ral driver was written by Damien Bergamini
     <damien at FreeBSD.org>.

According to ral(4) on OpenBSD 4.9:
AUTHORS
     The ral driver was written by Damien Bergamini <damien at openbsd.org>.

Hence it follows that, Damien maybe the person to ask for a resync between the two drivers. However I shall open a ticket here to track this issue.

Thanks for your time!
Edward.
>How-To-Repeat:
Any RaLink RT2860 chipset will do, try to modload ral(4).
>Fix:
Integrate patches from OpenBSD's version of ral(4).

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