Re: Call For Review: Sonics Silicon Backplane(SSB) driver

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 06:04:26AM +0100, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.jeong_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:22:42AM +0100, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.jeong_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > I've written a Sonics Silicon Backplane driver which is widely used for
> >> > Broadcom Wireless driver that bwi(4) can use this driver though it has
> >> > its own routines in it.
> >> >
> >> > I don't have any knowledge to write a bus driver like this so I'm not
> >> > sure my approach is correct. ?Please review!
> >> >
> >> > You can download a driver at:
> >> >
> >> > ? ? ? ?http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/ssb_20091129.tar.gz
> >> >
> >> > regards,
> >> > Weongyo Jeong
> >>
> >> Hi there Weongyo!
> >> I´d like to know .. will it compile under 8.0-RELEASE or -STABLE?
> >
> > Yes it should be.
> 
> Good to know !
> I´ll install FreeBSD 8.0 tomorrow and give your driver a go and as
> soon as I have something, I´ll report back to you :)
> 
> >> Should I try your module instead of bwi(4)?
> >
> > No. ?ssb driver is a kind of bus driver that it's not a wireless driver
> > so can not use. ?But I'm working on new driver (aka bwn(4)) for
> > replacing bwi(4) that it uses v4 firmware (latest firmware) and supports
> > more H/Ws. ?It's almost done that it works to associate with AP and
> > pings for RX/TX but not public yet. ?When it's available let you know
> > for testing. :-)
> 
> That´s even better than I expected because bwi(4) simply doesn´t
> support my hardware!
> 
> So what shoudl I do?
> Load it alonside bwi(4)?
> Just load it and see what I get on /var/log/messages and dmesg and report back?
> 
> And since you are writing a new driver, can I help to make it work
> with ACPI from the get go?

Please wait until I'm ready.  It'd not take long time.

regards,
Weongyo Jeong