Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report

Posted May 29, 2024 19:57 UTC (Wed) by aviallon (subscriber, #157205)
Parent article: Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report

Hardware support is very hard.
That's the problem.

Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report

Posted May 30, 2024 10:07 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link] (4 responses)

On the other hand, the decades have brought a few drivers which worked/work with "a lot" of hardware, I'm thinking of AHCI, AHCI, MPT-SAS, NVME, RNDIS/usbnet, uvcvideo, and (to a lesser degree) AC97/IntelHDA. If only there was a wireless spec to rule them all—oh wait that's usbnet, innit.

Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report

Posted May 30, 2024 14:22 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

It'll be darkly funny if I have to put a FreeBSD VM on my laptop to tether my phone after Linux goes through with its plans to kill off RNDIS...

Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report

Posted May 30, 2024 19:10 UTC (Thu) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link] (2 responses)

Is AHCI so important that you intended to list it twice, or did you mean xhci?

Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report

Posted May 30, 2024 21:23 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link] (1 responses)

Just an editing mishap.
It never crossed my mind to mention XHCI, because it has got a 100% monopoly, i.e. given some arbitrary machine with USB3, there is never a time you will *not* use xhci-pci.ko. For SATA, on the other hand, there is a, say, 5% (whatever the number may be) chance you'll need e.g. sata_sil.ko instead of ahci.ko for some hardware.

Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report

Posted May 31, 2024 8:20 UTC (Fri) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link]

"git grep CONFIG_USB_XHCI -- drivers/usb/host/Makefile" there are several other options than xhci-pci.ko. But I agree they are all XHCI.
However, there's also cdns3, dwc3, and mtu3.

Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report

Posted May 31, 2024 12:08 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

I wonder how much it affects hardware support that there are multiple BSD variants? Although the kernel in all of them is similar in spirit, a driver written for xBSD still needs some porting for yBSD.

Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report

Posted Jun 3, 2024 8:43 UTC (Mon) by DemiMarie (subscriber, #164188) [Link]

Would one option for wireless be bhyve + PCI passthrough?