svn commit: r43518 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Jan 14 19:51:15 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Tue Jan 14 19:51:14 2014
New Revision: 43518
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43518

Log:
  - Add 2013Q4 report on iwn(4) improvements
  
  Submitted by:	adrian

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Tue Jan 14 19:41:08 2014	(r43517)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Tue Jan 14 19:51:14 2014	(r43518)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 29 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 30 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
       March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -1603,4 +1603,49 @@ device vt_vga</pre>
 	other devices.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>Intel 802.11n NIC (<tt>iwn(4)</tt>) Work</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Adrian</given>
+	  <common>Chadd</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>adrian at freebsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links/>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>There has been a large amount of work on <tt>iwn(4)</tt> over
+	the last six months:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>New hardware support, 2xxx, 6xxx, 1xx series hardware.</li>
+
+	<li>Many bugs fixed, including scanning, association, EAPOL related
+	  fixes.</li>
+
+	<li><tt>iwn(4)</tt> now natively works with 802.11n rates from the
+	  net80211 rate control code, rather than mapping non-11n rates to 11n
+	  rates.</li>
+      </ul>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>There are still some scan hangs, due to how net80211 scans a
+	single channel at a time.  This needs to be resolved.</task>
+
+      <task>The transmit, receive, scan and calibration code need to be
+	refactored out of <tt>if_iwn.c</tt> and into separate source
+	files.</task>
+
+      <task>There still seem to be some issues surrounding 2 GHz
+	vs. 5 GHz association attempts leading to firmware
+	assertions, especially on the Intel 4965 NIC.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
