Re: Support for the RTL8821CE

["T K Spindler (moof)" <dogcow%babymeat.com@localhost>]

> > This wifi card can be found by the name of RTL8821CE; its supported on
> > FreeBSD at least. Not on OpenBSD and i couldnt seem to find something about
> > this card in the NetBSD documentation.
> 
> I suspect that's correct.  The only way to make that card work on
> NetBSD would be for someone to port the driver for it, by the
> looks of it.  I suspect that is going to take a while.
> 
>    https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/rtl8821ce-driver-for-freebsd-14.91960/

The rtw88 driver looks... not pleasant:

     The rtw88 driver is derived from Realtek's Linux rtw88 driver.

     The driver uses the linuxkpi_wlan and linuxkpi compat framework to bridge
     between the Linux and native FreeBSD driver code as well as to the native
     net80211(4) wireless stack.

and the code itself (which you can see at <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/sys/contrib/dev/rtw88>)
is not the most straightforward or smallest of drivers, either, not
even taking the size of the various binary blobs into account. I suspect
it would not be the easiest to port to NetBSD.