[crudbug]

Thanks Adrian. I am not a device drivers person. But, quick query - do you reuse the current Linux drivers work [0].

Looking at the current client device deployment, Intel owns around 80% of the Wi-Fi modem market. Is anybody from Intel working on BSD wireless drivers as well.

[0] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers

[kev009]

There is reuse, for example iwm(4) is based on the Linux driver and pulls from it. But the process is manual, not like the Linux-KPI graphics and OFED stuff.

It would be great if Intel stepped up to the plate and helped.

[crudbug]

I was thinking about a common driver interface similar to POSIX standard would solve the problem of multiple OS device support on a single hardware platform.

There was an effort for Uniform Driver Interface (UDI)[0], looks like it is dormant.

[0] http://wiki.osdev.org/Uniform_Driver_Interface

[kev009]

People will probably wrinkle their forehead :) but NDIS is that and a lot of operating systems support it https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ndis&sektion=4&man...

[loeg]

> Is anybody from Intel working on BSD wireless drivers as well?

No.