The Linux Kernel Looks to Eventually Drop Support for WiMAX

Re:The Linux Kernel Looks to Eventually Drop Support for WiMAX by sfgweilr4f on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:48PM (#24925892)

From a purely code/tech perspective, was there anything interesting about the WiMAX support?

Did it bring anything new to the linux kernel itself?

(...other than the obvious fact that it implemented WiMAX?)

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Re:The Linux Kernel Looks to Eventually Drop Support for WiMAX by fhrifjr on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:13PM (#24926024)

I think it was decent attempt of Intel to conquer mobile market and get rid of 3GPP gang. The whole thing was standardized in IEEE and architecture was much simpler than what we have today. I think technology had a decent chance to win but vendor politics killed it. Even if you’re Intel - sometimes you’re not big enough to move the market.

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Re:The Linux Kernel Looks to Eventually Drop Support for WiMAX by ghaff on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:30PM (#24926455)

Intel thought they had a lot more power in the telco space than they did based on their position in the PC space. I wrote a research note to that effect and they were not happy.

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Re:The Linux Kernel Looks to Eventually Drop Support for WiMAX by person_of_color on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:57PM (#24926265)

Id like to hear thoughts of engineers who staked their career on failed tech like WiMax or chatbots.

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Re:The Linux Kernel Looks to Eventually Drop Support for WiMAX by dilyevsky on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:07AM (#24927449)

I didn’t quite stake my career on it but working as embedded/network dev it was three years of my life. It was fun and I learned a ton of stuff about L2 that I almost never had to use and L3-4 that I still use frequently

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