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Zeeb" Reply-To: FreeBSD wireless mailing list To: current@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, desktop@freebsd.org, FreeBSD wireless mailing list Subject: HEADS UP: will remove iwlwifi firmware from src.git (main and stable/14) in April Message-ID: <02s8on48-41s3-1s5n-4nqn-0s88434946q3@SerrOFQ.bet> X-OpenPGP-Key-Id: 0x14003F198FEFA3E77207EE8D2B58B8F83CCF1842 List-Id: Discussions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-wireless List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I pushed an update to the iwlwifi firmware port today[1] and with the last release of FreeBSD 13 being out the door, 14.1-Release EoL end of this month passed and the packages for the updated port appearing I'll !!! remove iwlwifi firmware from src.git for main and stable/14 some time early April. !!! * What you need to do? Please run fwget(8) to install the right firmware package for your chipset if you have not already and then pkg upgrades will provide updates as needed. You can do this today already as that won't change the status quo compared to what is in the tree. * Why is this happening? iwlwifi following rtw88 and rtw89 after a request from core to not add more binary blob wireless firmware into src.git (accumulated firmware for a set of modern wireless drivers at that time would have been slightly over 100MB if I remember correctly with the amount increasing). As a result firmware was put into ports, broken down into flavors, added to fwget(8) to automatically install it, updated the port to no longer install kernel modules but firmware files on 14.2-R and later, enhanced the install media to contain firmware so wireless-only laptops could have connectivity with these drivers, and enhanced the installer to have a step to run fwget and install firmware into the new installation. All of this shipped in 14.2-R already. Thanks to everyone who helped along these steps to make it all happen. * What's your bonus? If you have't already tried yourself, the updated port will also turn on HT and VHT by default for iwlwifi chipsets 22000, ax210, and bz (that's AX200 and newer) on both main and stable/14. Reports so far have been encouraging enough from some people who've been testing during the last weeks (the rough edges being sorted step but step now). For more information about how to test, about older chipsets, or other drivers see the wireless mailing list archive[2] of this year and the FreeBSD Foundation Laptop Project on github [3] for links to the postings. Please follow up as appropriate on the wireless list. Lots of health and joy, Bjoern [1] https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=ef3fa2a325a592baa6573782a72cf0d833589ffa [2] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-wireless/ [3] https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/ -- Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7