OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go

Re:OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go by supernovae on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:28PM (#17888985)

So write some drivers :)

BTW, The Qualcomm wifi chipset is a BLESSING and considering the Surface Go is < 1 month old i'm sure its only a matter of time before open source drivers improve for it.

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Re:OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go by craftyguy on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:36PM (#17889018)

> So write some drivers :)

Uh, I (and you, and everyone except Qualcomm) cannot do that. ath10k drivers are inherently broken without a proprietary firmware because "blah blah 802.11ac blah blah" waves hands around

The atheros chip in that microsoft thing has been around for quite a while.

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Re:OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go by supernovae on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:43PM (#17889048)

>The atheros chip in that microsoft thing has been around for quite a while.

Nope.

The atheros chip is new, every single surface device used MARVEL and MARVEL was total crap - always having issues connecting, flaky drivers, poor standby experience. The surface go is the first device to not use marvel and i hope the next Pro's and Surface Laptops go atheros.

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k

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Re:OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go by Koshkin on Friday August 31, 2018 @10:43PM (#17889844)

> So write some drivers

This old adage has never made sense to me. Not everyone can write software (let alone device drivers).

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