freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 169, Issue 7

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>    1. Port of wpi driver ? (info)
>    2. Re: Port of wpi driver ? (Rink Springer)
>    3. Basic Micro "Atom" CPU Interface (Peter Jeremy)
>    4. TLS (thread local storage) - where/how (Divacky Roman)
>    5. Re: TLS (thread local storage) - where/how (Alex Lyashkov)
>    6. [RFC][patch] dhclient Classless Static Routes support
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:04:28 +0200
> From: info <info at gabitasoft.com>
> Subject: Port of wpi driver ?
> To: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <4494361C.3070501 at gabitasoft.com>
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> Hi
>
> Does anybody know whether OpenBSD's-Current wpi driver (Intel 3945 abg) 
> will be ported to Freebsd-Current ?
>
> Thanks
> Roel
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:13:53 +0200
> From: Rink Springer <rink at FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: Port of wpi driver ?
> To: info <info at gabitasoft.com>
> Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <20060617201353.GB72064 at rink.nu>
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> Hi,
>
>   
>> Does anybody know whether OpenBSD's-Current wpi driver (Intel 3945 abg) 
>> will be ported to Freebsd-Current ?
>>     
>
> I heard OpenBSD's wpi driver is very experimental; have you tested it
> yet?
>   
I have tested it, it still hangs on my laptop but guess it wil get 
better in a few weeks.
I don't know how much work it is to covert the driver to freebsd each 
time  though.
I can't imagine it is that work, I've seen the source code and it 
doesn't seem that much work.
I can be wrong though, so anybody informed about the conversion of this 
driver, or any of the
other blob-free drivers of OpenBSD ?

Thanks
Roel