Re: [iwlwifi] status for stable/13

From: <jbo_at_insane.engineer>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:59:50 UTC
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

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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
>
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