Re: [rfc] removing the NDISulator

On 21 October 2013 12:59, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher_at_yandex.ru> wrote:

> On 19.10.2013 10:01, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > I too would like to see more effort writing new Ethernet and wifi
> > drivers and porting from other operating systems.
> >
> > But I would like to keep the NDISulator/NDISwrapper as a fallback.
> >
> > There are still wifi adapters, Ethernet too, where there is no
> > FreeBSD driver (AR9271 for instance), or the FreeBSD driver is
> > buggy.
>
> I'm agree. While there are still some devices without native drivers,
> but that work via NDISulator, we should keep it.
>

It's honestly about time that these were updated, fixed and/or ported to
FreeBSD.

So, I'm still going forward with the plan. I won't be killing it during the
10 lifecycle.




-adrian