releases/15.0R/relnotes: Note wireless firmware on bootonly media

[jrm]

Summary

Wireless firmware packages are now included on the bootonly ISO and the
mini-memstick image so users can fetch installation files over a
wireless connection.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

[emaste]

LGTM

[bz]

website/content/en/releases/15.0R/relnotes.adoc

1216

There's no rtw89-kmod?

[bz]

website/content/en/releases/15.0R/relnotes.adoc

1216

Oh sugar. Well that needs fixing, not only the rtw89 but also the flavors as the base port uses as otherwise we do not enable 11n or 11ac for iwlwifi (and others in the future) on these discs.
Hopefully I can flip the switch to enable it by default soon but if we do disable we really need to make sure... *sigh*. I probably will need to do this in the driver itself. *sigh*.
And mt7601u is missing too nowadays.

Oh I see the old review and the size discussion.

I think we want to make sure to point people towards the DVD in that comment if they need other firmware?

[jrm]

website/content/en/releases/15.0R/relnotes.adoc

1216

It's rtw88 (not 89). I took that from 655fcdde1aff:

+   ${PKG_INSTALL} wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod || true

Also:

root@15amd64-default:/usr/ports/net/wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod # pkg info | grep wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod
wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod-20241017.1500068_2 Firmware modules for the rtw88 (rtw88) WiFi NIC driver

[jrm]

@bz, I installed 15.0 from the memstick image over a wireless connection (Intel ax210 card). This wasn't possible with 14.3, so it's progress. Do you think it's implied that this applies to WiFi chipsets supported by this firmware? I can try to be more specific with something like

The bootonly ISO and mini-memstick image now include the wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod and net/wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod packages, allowing installations over a wireless connection using Wi-Fi chipsets supported by these firmware. Those with Wi-Fi chipsets that require other firmware should use the DVD ISO.

Does that feel too wordy and more like support than something suitable for a release announcement?

[bz]

In D53989#1233620, @jrm wrote:

@bz, I installed 15.0 from the memstick image over a wireless connection (Intel ax210 card). This wasn't possible with 14.3, so it's progress. Do you think it's implied that this applies to WiFi chipsets supported by this firmware? I can try to be more specific with something like

The bootonly ISO and mini-memstick image now include the wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod and net/wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod packages, allowing installations over a wireless connection using Wi-Fi chipsets supported by these firmware. Those with Wi-Fi chipsets that require other firmware should use the DVD ISO.

Does that feel too wordy and more like support than something suitable for a release announcement?

THANK YOU!

Commit! Pre-accept.

[jrm]

Attempt to address @bz's comments.