I would suggest reaching out to various members of the risc-v consortium as for their desire for a wifi stack, and/or doing a preso there.
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 5:03 AM Xianjun Jiao (UGent-imec) <xianjun.j...@ugent.be> wrote: > > risc-v indeed is getting more and more developers. I also looked into it a > lot. In principle, there is a chance that some of the openwifi low level > state machines (for low MAC protocol) could be replaced by some simple risc-v > cores. -- Just some wild/initial ideas, no resource/action planned yet. > > > Best regards, > -- > Xianjun Jiao > Senior researcher, imec - Gent university > 210.007, floor 11, Technologiepark 126, 9052, Ghent, Belgium > > > ________________________________ > From: Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:42:24 AM > To: cerowrt-devel > Subject: mips goes risc-v > > https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/21/03/08/2117238/mips-technologies-joins-risc-v-moves-to-open-source-isa-standard > > To me my biggest kvetch about the risc-v effort was the lack of > additional on-chip IP support, which, > lacking compatible busses and so on, was going to limit multiple > generations of chips to just what could be developed afresh. Even > "simple" IP blocks like usb support take time. While I really like > "chisel" as a design language, it is far behind what arm and intel > use. But: With the mips licensees scrambling to reuse their IP, > somehow, and move to risc-v, I think this architecture has an ever > increasing chance of success. > > It's been a really good couple of months for open source this or that. > I keep hoping someone will seriously fund > https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi as well, for, in order to handle > the complexities of 802.11n and beyond, a co-processor with some > serious oomph, and a well designed piece of open firmware, is needed. > > > -- > "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public > relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled" - Richard Feynman > > d...@taht.net <Dave Täht> CTO, TekLibre, LLC Tel: 1-831-435-0729 -- "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled" - Richard Feynman d...@taht.net <Dave Täht> CTO, TekLibre, LLC Tel: 1-831-435-0729 _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel