<div dir="ltr">This approach is not going to work. Sun workstations as the forwarding planes for WiFi doesn't work nor scale and is cost & power inefficient. The WiFi forwarding plane needs to be all hardware and not based off of BSD. It has to be like a port asic in an ethernet switch. No SoC.<br><br>Ethernet NICs are targeting servers where the workstation/NIC model does work. WiFi is never going to be the basis for cloud servers.<br><br>Bob</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 2:56 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <<a href="mailto:toke@toke.dk">toke@toke.dk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Bob McMahon via Make-wifi-fast <<a href="mailto:make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank">make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>><br>
writes:<br>
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> What are you expecting from chip makers?<br>
<br>
High-quality open source drivers, upstreamed into the Linux mainline by<br>
the time the hardware ships, would be a good start :)<br>
<br>
Vendors seem to manage this for Ethernet NICs just fine, so it can't<br>
really be a technical barrier that is keeping this from happening.<br>
<br>
If we're going further down the wish list, "no binary firmware blobs"<br>
would be next as far as I'm concerned. Not holding my breath on that<br>
one, though :/<br>
<br>
-Toke<br>
</blockquote></div>
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