Re:OpenBSD and the modern laptop
by brynet on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @09:38AM
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802.11n/802.11ac is a lot more complex then previous standards, and unlike Linux, OpenBSD has a single-digit number of developers working on drivers. If you've followed the past year or so, Intel wireless support is materializing.. we gained iwm(4), 802.11n in 6.0, MIMO (MCS 0-15) in 6.1. All in addition to new hardware support, fixes for quirky firmware bugs.
Not every project has engineers from Intel with internal datasheets, this came up before with USB 3.0 xHCI, which had Linux drivers long before the specs were public. There weren't even devices on the market!
https://www.openbsd.org/60.html
https://www.openbsd.org/61.html
Not every project has engineers from Intel with internal datasheets, this came up before with USB 3.0 xHCI, which had Linux drivers long before the specs were public. There weren't even devices on the market!
OpenBSD is developed by volunteers.