On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:03:44PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote: > > On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:57, Rui Paulo wrote: > > > On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:11, Joe Talbott wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'd like to open a discussion regarding our firmware API. What are > >> people's thoughts on FreeBSD's firmware API? Is it worth the effort > >> to import FreeBSD's API, or are there not so many drivers using > >> loadable firmware? My personal feeling is that we should do whatever > >> we can to make porting drivers as easy as possible. > > > > From the point of view of wireless drivers, more and more will be using > > firmware interfaces and you'll likely benefit from importing the > > firmware(9) interface from FreeBSD. Since wireless drivers will need to be > > ported again from FreeBSD due to the massive net80211 changes I have on my > > branch, a new firmware interface will probably be needed. > > This still holds. Are you going to import the firmware interface from FreeBSD?
Yes after the release and a bit more testing. I also have a few changes to your net80211-update branch that I needed to get ratectl to work for the wpi driver I'm porting. I try to get a patch together so you can check it out. Thanks, Joe
