onboard wireless on rpi4
Dave Jones
s.dave.jones at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 06:54:08 UTC 2020
Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On 4 Sep 2020, at 17:35, Klaus Cucinauomo via freebsd-arm wrote:
>
>> Yep, my question if really no one else is working on it, was directed to
Björn ;-),
>> because I don’t want to work on a completely different implementation,
>> if Björn is perhaps a few steps further.
>
> SDIO attach worked last year; WiFi (cfg80211) wasn’t finished. And I am
not tired of hearing people ask for it. You have all the right to do so.
>
> I recently got a PCIe card (different bus attachment) but it should help
to move forward on the WiFi parts as well. Yes, it is a free time project
at the moment but it also benefits from other ongoing WiFi work.
>
>
> Two things which may help for the RPi/SDIO parts are:
>>
> - please try and use MMCCAM kernels and help, test, debug, report, .. all
the things you find so (other people) can jump in as well so we can switch
that on as default. Without that, no SDIO.
>
> - in case you are not only into RPi, the nanopi/rk33xx platforms with
onboard SDIO WiFi need tiny little glue bits to turn the bits on; would be
great if someone could just do that.
Regarding
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2020-May/009122.html,
are you really working on it?
You've been working on using linuxkpi to support Intel wifi [1], and it
seems
that you also work on ath10k port [2]. Would you tell us what your first
priority is? Thanks!
[1]
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2020-04-2020-06.html#Intel-wireless-and-11ac-update
[2]
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2020-September/009377.html
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