netmap on wireless NIC

[Adrian Chadd]

THere's no argument against it.

There's just no carl9170 driver at the moment.

Some NICs use ring buffers, some use FIFOs, some use descriptor lists.
The atheros stuff uses lists/FIFOs, no rings.

2c,



Adrian

On 4 June 2013 14:06, Chao Xu <caesarxuchao at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to hacking some wireless NIC driver (carl9170 for example)
> to enable netmap on it? I guess this is possible because wireless drivers
> also manage packets using ring buffers. My goal is to access the raw
> packets as quickly as possible, not to achieve high data rate. Is there any
> argument against doing so? Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> Chao
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