Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver

Weongyo Jeong weongyo.jeong at gmail.com
Sun Feb 28 07:41:06 UTC 2010


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:21:06PM -0800, Xin LI wrote:
> Hi, Weongyo,
> 
> On 2010/02/25 16:51, Weongyo Jeong wrote:
> > FYI bwn(4) driver is committed into FreeBSD tree.  I think the driver 
> > supports your LP PHY device.  After cvsup please try to rebuild siba_bwn
> > and bwn modules.
> > 
> > Could you please test with it?  Please let me know and send me your 
> > full dmesg when you encounters the following problems:
> > 
> >   - if the driver doesn't work or is unstable.
> >   - if it prints debugging or verbose messages.
> 
> Great!  Thanks for the work!
> 
> Is it possible to MFC the work back to 8-STABLE at some point?

Of course yes.  AFAIK it could be compiled and works without problems on
8-STABLE; I checked it.  :-)

> A colleague of mine has tried to compile the code on 8-STABLE but seems
> that it's using some new API I guess...  I've asked him to try a
> 9-CURRENT kernel but the Atom based netbook would take some while to
> compile the code =-)

Thank you.

regards,
Weongyo Jeong



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