Re: git: c16cd8dfe3 - main - 13.1 relnotes: Add sections derived from 13.1 RELNOTES file.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 5:53 PM Mike Karels <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12 Apr 2022, at 17:41, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> > On 4/11/22 6:45 AM, Mike Karels wrote:
> >> The branch main has been updated by karels (src committer):
> >>
> >> URL:
> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=c16cd8dfe3e22dc51aa4f45c1161704046845142
> >>
> >> commit c16cd8dfe3e22dc51aa4f45c1161704046845142
> >> Author:     Mike Karels <[email protected]>
> >> AuthorDate: 2022-04-10 15:19:27 +0000
> >> Commit:     Mike Karels <[email protected]>
> >> CommitDate: 2022-04-11 13:45:40 +0000
> >>
> >>      13.1 relnotes: Add sections derived from 13.1 RELNOTES file.
> >>          Incorporate portions of the 13.1 RELNOTES file not in 13.0,
> rephrase
> >>      without the imperative "Add ..." first lines, and add markdown.
> >>      NFS section reviewed by Rick Macklem; One True Awk reviewed by
> Warner
> >>      Losh.
> >>          Reviewed by:    gjb, pauamma_gundo.com
> >>      Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34864
> >> ---
> >>  +WiFi 6 support has been added. gitref:0a6760a1de32[repository=src]
> gitref:3f3676a71266[repository=src] gitref:580c04df4db6[repository=src]
> >
> > I suspect that this is a bit of an overstatement.  These commits are all
> in
> > wpa_supplicant and it may be that we would support the newer auth
> features
> > in Wifi 6 on a driver that supported WiFi 6.  However, I don't think any
> of
> > the wifi drivers in FreeBSD currently support 802.11ac much less Wifi 6.
>
> Thanks.  I see that I misinterpreted a comment.  I’ll ask for
> clarification.
>

Yea, we support some of the newer protocols in the wifi stack, but don't
have any MAC support > 802.11n.
wifi 6 and 802.11ac generally refer to the whole stack, so I'd agree with
john: we have the interop stuff
to log into wifi 6 networks w/o the MAC support to get the faster speeds
(and a few other crazy low-level
advantages).

Warner