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diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/lkpi-wireless.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/lkpi-wireless.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1c6580dd7e --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/lkpi-wireless.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +=== LinuxKPI 802.11 and Native Wireless Update + +Contact: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org> + +Contact: The FreeBSD wireless mailing list <wireless@FreeBSD.org> + +This report focuses on the efforts using permissively licensed Linux wireless drivers, mostly unmodified, on FreeBSD, as well as preparing the native net80211 stack for support of newer standards. + +Work is ongoing for Mediatek mt76-based PCIe card support. + +LinuxKPI 802.11 (man:linuxkpi_wlan[4]) updates were committed for scanning and beacon handling improvements and more robustness. + +LinuxKPI updates were done in order to import newer versions of man:iwlwifi[4], man:rtw88[4], and man:rtw89[4] drivers. +Work on suspend and resume for LinuxKPI-based wireless drivers has a possible solution which will need community testing and feedback. +Both updates were blocked by out-of-tree drm LinuxKPI PCI conflicts and problems were just resolved before EuroBSDCon 2025 thus the work will likely appear beginning of 25Q4. + +I gave a talk on wireless at EuroBSDCon 2025 and had a good chat with wireless people from NetBSD and OpenBSD. + +There is increasing interest again in getting brcmfmac support sorted, as well as more requests for ath11k. + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation |