diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/wireless.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/wireless.adoc new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/wireless.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +=== Wireless Update + +Links: + +link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=277512&hide_resolved=0[Categorised Wireless Problem Reports] URL: link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=277512&hide_resolved=0[] + +Contact: Bjoern A. Zeeb + +Contact: The FreeBSD wireless mailing list + +The ongoing wireless efforts are trying to bring more support for recent chipsets as well as newer standards. + +With man:iwlwifi[4] and man:rtw88[4] being supported we received patches and initial reports for rtw89 and ath10k working for some poeple. +Additionally ath11k, ath12k and various chipsets supported by mt76 are waiting for someone to find the time to finish compat code, test and debug. + +Work is ongoing to update drivers to Linux v6.11 using the now bootstrapped vendor branches, which should help maintainance a lot in the future. +One particular focus for this update is also to find ways to minimize incompatibilities between wireless compat code versions in order to support multiple Linux versions as needed. + +After the native kern_malloc changes got committed, LinuxKPI is seeing ongoing work for memory allocation to play better by the rules set out in Linux which should help with DMA problems seen. +There is further work pending to add missing bus_dmamap_sync() calls. + +There is work to support man:rtw88[4] SDIO devices (being tested on an r2s-plus) and ongoing work to stabilize updated USB support which should start landing once the driver updates have finished. +Lastly there are more updates in the queue to finish 11n support for LinuxKPI 802.11 compat code as well as improving native net80211 code. + +If you have questions or feedback please use the link:https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-wireless[freebsd-wireless mailing list]. +That way everyone will see, be able to join in, and the answers will be publicly archived. + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation