On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:21:47PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > Doesn't the NDIS specification offer a reasonably stable ABI for wireless > drivers? > > I have often thought that supporting NDIS would offer manufacturers a sort > of "halfway house" to ease them into proper support for FreeBSD and Linux. > While it is inferior to open source drivers, it would attract users, and > with users manufacturers would feel pressure to have better support, which > would best be achieved with open-source drivers.
I agree that would probably be a productive approach to improving wireless support over time. I do not know the technical challenges associated with getting that working in FreeBSD, though, or how well it would actually work in practice. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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