Fwd: Fwd: Making MPSAFE/Converting Wi-Fi driver (GSoC)

[Jeandre Kruger <jeandreckruger%gmail.com@localhost>]

I'm wondering if somehow replying directly prevented my emails from
getting through somehow, so at risk of being annoying I'll forward
them both to the mailing list just in case.

Jeandre


---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Jeandre Kruger <jeandreckruger%gmail.com@localhost>
Date: Mon, May 22, 2023 at 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Making MPSAFE/Converting Wi-Fi driver (GSoC)
To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>


Hello again,

At some point the wifi topic started identifying as NetBSD 10.99.4 --
should I take it you've done the rebasing?

The work product submission guidelines aren't too stringent:
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/work-product --
key things seem to be that the code is easy to find (e.g. "links to
the commits you've made") and it's explanatory enough.

Also,
1) will regular reports be required of me?
2) should we establish a weekly communication pattern?

Thanks,
Jeandre

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Jeandre Kruger <jeandreckruger%gmail.com@localhost>
Date: Fri, May 12, 2023 at 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Making MPSAFE/Converting Wi-Fi driver (GSoC)
To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>


On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 10:32 PM Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hello Jeandre, welcome to SoC!
>
> ...
>
> Meanwhile where you could get started:
>
> Have you looked at the differences between the athn and the ath driver?
>
> The ath driver(s) in FreeBSD should be a good starting point to adjust ours
> to the new stack (assuming they have been converted there), and maybe this
> would be a good starting point for you?
>
> So maybe look into NetBSD athn(4) vs. ath(4) differences and also compare
> NetBSD's and FreeBSD's ath(4) - all at a very high level for now, not going
> too deep into details.
>
> And: don't worry too much about the milestone details in the proposal
> and differences to actual work - if e.g. we can get ath(4) work faster
> than athn(4) and do that first, it would make a great GSoC result
> already, no matter what the original plan was.
>
> Martin

OK, thanks.  I started a blog (https://jonathan50.github.io/gsoc-blog/).

Also (if it matters), I tried the wifi branch on a different netbook
with an Intel adaptor (you have iwn marked ? under "tested" on the
matrix).  It works until I try to use wpa_supplicant on wlan0, then it
panics.

panic: kernel diagnostic assertion "ci->ic_nchans <= maxchans &&
ci->ic_nchans >= 1" failed: file
"/home/jeandreckruger/src-draft/sys/net80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c", line
865 nchans 0 maxchans 1