Fixed-function hardware

Posted Nov 16, 2016 20:09 UTC (Wed) by mtaht (guest, #11087)
In reply to: Fixed-function hardware by mtaht
Parent article: Making WiFi fast

As a counter-example of how better onboard firmware could cut observed latencies down below what we can achieve by moving more ops into the kernel, see:

http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/a_look_back_at_cerowrt_wifi/

Some chipsets already expose a per-station concept, in particular.