Re: [iwlwifi] status for stable/13

Hello Bjoern!

I was wondering whether you have any status update for us?
Unless I missed something the MFCs to stable/13 did not yet happen. I couldn't spot a "cherrypicking-script" either.

Thanks again for your hard work!


BR,
~ Joel

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On Tuesday, November 30th, 2021 at 22:59, <jbo@insane.engineer> wrote:

> Bjoern,
>
> Thank you a lot for your quick response.
>
> I'll gladly wait until we can enjoy the latest iwlwifi efforts on stable/13 (either via the upcoming script you mentioned to cherry-pick from HEAD or via the later MFCs).
>
> Thank you a lot for your efforts on this front. It's really appreciated.
>
> WiFi is definitely the main reason keeping me from using FreeBSD as a daily driver on my laptop(s).
>
> Keep up the good work! :)
>
> Best regards,
>
> ~ Joel
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Tuesday, November 30th, 2021 at 01:00, Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, jbo@insane.engineer wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > On 2021-11-27 I updated stable/13 and tried to apply the setup script which
> > >
> > > is supposed to patch the kernel source to make this new driver work. However,
> > >
> > > this operation was unsucessful:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > The iwlwifi wiki was updated in the meantime with this note:
> > >
> > > > 2021-11-28 The driver and firmware went into HEAD (detached from build)
> >
> > Also earlier today:
> >
> > Q: Your latest snapshot no longer applies. What shall I do?
> >
> > A: We are working on getting all parts into the tree currently.
> >
> > Please be patient for a few more days.
> >
> > > My question: As of today, what is the correct way to get the iwlwifi driver
> > >
> > > onto a stable/13 system?
> >
> > There is a hard way resolving the conflicts yourself but read on.
> >
> > > As per my understaning, HEAD would correspond to
> > >
> > > -CURRENT which would mean that stable/13 doesn't (yet) have these changes. Will
> > >
> > > these MFCs show up in the next few days?
> >
> > Yes. For appropriate values of "few".
> >
> > My hope is to have everything in main/HEAD/-CURRENT before the end of
> >
> > this week.
> >
> > stable/13 will likely get things officially within 14 days of that but once
> >
> > it is all in HEAD I may just publish a script for the mean time which will
> >
> > git cherry-pick the changes needed for stable/13 as the amount of people
> >
> > asking for 13 is quite large. So you won't have to wait for the 14
> >
> > days for the MFC to happen.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > Bjoern
> >
> > Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7