urtwn(4) / rtwn(4) drivers are merged - call for review / testing

[Andriy Voskoboinyk]

Thu, 01 Sep 2016 19:29:03 +0300 було написано Andriy Voskoboinyk  
<avos at freebsd.org>:

Now it resides on https://github.com/s3erios/freebsd-rtwn (integrated
into src tree, so it can be built with 'make buildkernel' / 'make  
buildworld').

This the last stage; once all reported issues will be resolved, I'm
going to merge it into HEAD.

> Hi everyone,
>
> rtwn(4), urtwn(4) and urtwm (from previous emails) drivers were merged  
> into a
> single rtwn driver (plus rtwn_usb / rtwn_pci device glue); the code is
> available on https://github.com/s3erios/rtwn repository. Among bugfixes /
> code deduplication, there some new features too:
>
> 1) multi-vap support (one any wireless interface + one STA interface +
> any number of monitor mode interfaces).
> 2) few new sysctls:
>   * dev.rtwn.#.crypto - controls how to use hardware crypto acceleration
>   * dev.rtwn.#.ratectl_selected
>   * dev.rtwn.#.ratectl - selects current 'rate control' algorithm
> (currently only 'none' and 'net80211' are supported; RTL8192CE needs  
> testing
> with the last).
> 3) (incomplete) power management support for RTL8188EU (requires  
> firmware).
> 4) Short Guard Interval support.
>
> It's known to work with RTL8188CUS, RTL8188EU and RTL8821AU; however,
> it was never tested with RTL8192CE or RTL8812AU.
>
> How-to-build:
> 1) download / checkout the repository.
> 2) apply 'patch-usbdevs.diff' against '/usr/src'
> 3) build and install rtwn module:
>     cd $repository/sys/modules/rtwn && make && make install
> 4) build and install rtwn_usb/rtwn_pci:
>     cd ../rtwn_usb && make && make install
>     cd ../rtwn_pci && make && make install
> 5) unload previous && load current drivers:
>     kldunload if_urtwn if_rtwn
>     kldload /boot/modules/if_rtwn.ko /boot/modules/if_rtwn_usb.ko  
> /boot/modules/if_rtwn_pci.ko
> 6) Use.