status-report 11ac, Intel

[Dave Jones]

Thanks for the update.  For me I only care about the wifi on RPi.
Could you tell us what the current status about Broadcom fullmac wifi
support [1]?
It's weird that it have been developed for almost a year, without any patch
available.

[1]
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2019-04-2019-06.html#FreeBSD-SDIO-and-Broadcom-FullMAC-WiFi-Support

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 1:17 PM  Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> some of you had seen the tweet from the Foundation a longer while ago (or
> the
> phoronix article [1]) that they are sponsoring 11ac work and “it’s me”
> who’s
> looking at it now part-time.
>
> For this work the initial focus will be on getting 11ac (non-AP) support
> into
> our stack.
> We’ll be using the Intel’s mvm driver (know as iwm in FreeBSD currently)
> as a
> reference for that work.
>
> In addition we’ll also try to make sure to support newer chipsets as
> supported
> by iwlwifi.
> As some of you might be aware that Idwer has work in progress to port over
> iwx
> from OpenBSD and from iwlwifi [2] and that is amazing and he’s done a lot
> of
> work, and I hope I can work with him in this process to sort out issues and
> build a common ground for 11ac.
>
> I’ll send a status update as there are things to report;  probably more
> regularly as there is something working and to test.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Bjoern
>
> PS:  there is a way longer-term perspective I’d like to get feedback for,
> mostly independent of this, and I’ll send a separate email for this.
>
> [1]
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=802.11ac-FreeBSD-Sponsor
> [2] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244261
>