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
More information about the freebsd-current
mailing list