Re: Looking for a port of the ath11k driver

From: Farhan Khan <farhan_at_farhan.codes>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 04:01:54 UTC

On Sat, Jan 7 2023 at 06:35:50 PM +0100, Robert Clausecker <fuz@fuz.su> 
wrote:
> Hi Bjoern,
> 
> This sounds phantastic!  Please keep me posted on your efforts!
> Let me know if there is anything (such as testing) I can assist
> with.
> 
> Yours,
> Robert Clausecker
> 
> Am Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 04:59:27PM +0000 schrieb Bjoern A. Zeeb:
>>  On Wed, 4 Jan 2023, Robert Clausecker wrote:
>> 
>>  > Good evening!
>>  >
>>  > I am in the process of porting FreeBSD to the Windows 2023 Dev Kit
>>  > (Project Volterra).  This is a somewhat affordable high 
>> performance
>>  > ARM system and as such an interesting FreeBSD target.
>>  >
>>  > The system comes with a Qualcomm QCNFA765 802.11ax card, 
>> apparently
>>  > supported through the ath11k driver on Linux.  This driver is
>>  > BSD3CLAUSE licensed and might perhaps be portable to FreeBSD.
>>  >
>>  > It would be great to have support for this card.  Is there anybody
>>  > who is interested in writing a driver / porting this driver to
>>  > FreeBSD?
>> 
>>  I have the driver compiling.  What's needed next is here:
>>  
>> <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-wireless/2022-December/001033.html>
>> 
>>  /bz
>> 
>>  --
>>  Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     
>> r15:7
>> 
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If ath11k is the same as OpenBSD's athn, I spent some time trying to 
port it over, but I got stuck at mapping over some of the FreeBSD's 
wifi layering and couldn't figure out how to proceed. Then I got busy 
with life :/