Re: request for testing - iwx and iwm driver changes

On Sun, 27 Sept 2026 at 13:26, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> hi!
>

Updates!


>
> Idwer and I have been working on updating iwx and iwm respectively.
> There's a lot more work to come, but I figure we should at least get the
> first
> ten diffs of each of our stacks get wider testing before I land it in
> -head.
>
> iwx:
>
> * the stack head is currently at - https://reviews.freebsd.org/D59766
> * Idwer is slowly syncing each openbsd diff after the initial iwx merge
> point over and figuring out what's missing and what's changed.
> * I did some basic testing on my AX201/AX210 and it worked okay; I'd
> appreciate further testing.
>

It still works for me, I'd appreciate some more testing from someone
with an iwx NIC. Thanks!


>
> iwm:
>
> * the stack head is currently at - https://reviews.freebsd.org/D60082
> * my changes are a bit more intrusive - our drivers have diverged quite a
> bit as I reorganised it in the hope of syncing linux changes directly and
> then life got in the way for a decade or so.
> * I've tested it on 7260 and 9260 and both work just fine here.
> * This doesn't add 11n or 11ac support to iwm, but my goal with syncing it
> to the 2021 openbsd driver is that it's a good sync point for 11n support.
> It's important to stabilise that before I work on bringing it further
> forward towards 2026 and 11ac support.
>
> A big thanks to Idwer for poking at the iwx update. There's a lot to do
> there and I'm super grateful for getting some help here!
>

Someone already tested this out and found issues that I've fixed, so thanks!
I'm slowly adding to this diff stack in order to bring more openbsd 2021
driver changes into iwm. (The more I do, the more I find .. even in the
"don't do 11n yet" space.)

I'd appreciate some further testing here if you're using iwm!

thanks,



-adrian