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Thanks Adrian. I am not a device drivers person. But, quick query - do you reuse the current Linux drivers work [0]. Looking at the current client device deplo
by crudbug 10y ago
Thanks Adrian. I am not a device drivers person. But, quick query - do you reuse the current Linux drivers work [0].
Looking at the current client device deployment, Intel owns around 80% of the Wi-Fi modem market. Is anybody from Intel working on BSD wireless drivers as well.
[0] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers
- loeg 10y ago> Is anybody from Intel working on BSD wireless drivers as well? No.
- kev009 10y agoThere is reuse, for example iwm(4) is based on the Linux driver and pulls from it. But the process is manual, not like the Linux-KPI graphics and OFED stuff. It would be great if Intel stepped up to the plate and helped.
- crudbug 10y agoI was thinking about a common driver interface similar to POSIX standard would solve the problem of multiple OS device support on a single hardware platform. There was an effort for Uniform Driver Interface (UDI)[0], looks like it is dormant. [0] http://wiki.osdev.org/Uniform_Driver_Interface http://wiki.osdev.org/Uniform_Driver_Interface
- kev009 10y agoPeople will probably wrinkle their forehead :) but NDIS is that and a lot of operating systems support it https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ndis&sektion=4&manpath=freebsd-release-ports https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ndis&sektion=4&man...