Re: Project: Support Broadcom BCM43* WiFi adapters

[Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 23:15:32 +0300
> From: Erte Behzat <behzaterte%yandex.com@localhost>
> 
> I have some free time and passion for learning, so I want to start
> this project although I have very small knowledge about NetBSD
> kernel.
> 
> On the other hand, bluerise(Patrick Wildt) from OpenBSD team has
> already started brcmfmac for OpenBSD from scratch. We've talked over
> irc (freenode) channel and he'd gave to me related OpenBSD branch
> (github). According to blurise, driver sources in premature phase at
> the moment but he's still working on it.
> 
> I've tried port his sources to NetBSD kernel and I've made some
> refactoring jobs because of a few differences between OpenBSD and
> NetBSD. Also porting source codes still in progress so I continue
> for that.
> 
> At this point, I have to need someone who is guiding(mentor) to me
> for this project.

Hi, berte!  That's great!  I ported our current bcm43xx driver bwi(4)
from OpenBSD and Dragonfly almost a decade ago now -- that was how I
got into NetBSD kernel development.  Unfortunately, I was clueless
about wifi, so it wasn't a very good job (and as you are no doubt
aware, bwi(4) doesn't support the newer firmware).

I'm afraid I'm still clueless about wifi, but I would be happy to help
with general NetBSD kernel development issues and navigating some of
the network stack.  Feel free to email me directly or ask questions in
#netbsd-code on Freenode.