Doing 802.11ac drivers for GSoC 2017

[Mateusz Piotrowski]

Hi,

Recently, I've tried installing FreeBSD on Lenovo Yoga 3 14. It turned out
that
its wireless device (which uses 802.11ac) support is not there yet
according to
[1] and [2]. Additionally, Adrian@'s presentation from BSDCan 2012 [3] says
"802.11ac support? .. it's rapidly approaching, it should be thought
about!" :).

Is there any book/website/tutorial which shows how to develop network
drivers
for FreeBSD?

I think that developing a 802.11ac driver seems to be a fine project for
Google
Summer of Code. On the other hand, I have little experience with drivers so
far
so it might be a better idea to focus on implementing only a part of
required
functionalities. Do you think that providing additional support for
802.11ac is
good for a GSoC project?

Thanks/Cheers!

--Mateusz

[1]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11
[3]:
https://www.bsdcan.org/2012/schedule/attachments/207_BSDCan%202012%20-%20802.11%20status%20update.pdf