Yay this is excellent progress/news!
-adrian On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 at 20:01, Bjoern A. Zeeb <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > with [1] I added HW_CRYPTO support to the build for all LinuxKPI based > drivers. This is a pre-condition to make HT/VHT work with drivers/fw > which support, e.g., A-MPDU offloading -- basically almost everything > modern. > > I will very likely MFC it at the end of the week if I didn't put in any > last minute bugs. > > As the commit message says it currently only supports CCMP. If you > still do WEP or TKIP please let me know and I'll add it to the list > though I'll then likely want your help to test (patches) as well. > > As also mentioned in the commit message I saw one specific panic in the > past which I no longer can reproduce. I am sure there's some other edge > cases on more devices so I need your help to test. > > While the code is compiled in now it is disabled behind a tunable until > there is sufficient feedback for iwlwifi, rtw88 and rtw89 that it works. > Once that happens I'll flip the default for the tunable at least to on > and eventually remove it alltogether and we can move to the next steps > of testing which is hopefully fully merged to git by then. > > So if you want some HT/VHT to work with at least modern iwlwifi, and then > also older iwlwifi, rtw88 and rtw89 in th enext steps please help testing > and report back the next days. > > To turn the code on add the following line to laoder.conf: > compat.linuxkpi.80211.hw_crypto=1 > > At runtime you can check the state by using: > sysctl compat.linuxkpi.80211.hw_crypto > > Also if you have any problems, then you can easily remove that line (or > unset it from loader) and boot with the support turned on. > > If you reply to this thread or me (positive or negative feedback), please > add the pciconf -l line for your wifi card so we known about the chipset. > > > Lots of joy, > Bjoern > > [1] > https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=11db70b6057e41b259dc2245cd893d5b19179fcc > > -- > Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7 > >