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Adrian Chadd
I'm a random software/network/hardware/systems guy who seems to be the WiFi and atheros driver maintainer.
I'm currently working on:
- Getting FreeBSD/mips installing and running well on various Atheros MIPS embedded platforms
- Working on FreeBSD Wifi support for 802.11n Atheros chips
- Hopefully shaping TDMA and 802.11s mesh into shape for 802.11n support
- bsdbox - a busybox style solution for FreeBSD embedded builds
- Working on NetworkRSS - network receive / transmit side scaling and CPU affinity
What I'd like to do for FreeBSD-12:
Scaling:
- NUMA aware malloc/KVA allocation
- NUMA aware vm page metadata layout
- NUMA aware driver / dmamem / dmatag layout
- Per-domain reserved memory/KVA, for large/huge allocations (eg 1G regions set aside for jumbo mbuf clusters, netmap style buffer allocation, third-party / commercial software, VMs, etc.)
Environment:
- Graphical bootloader and higher resolution splash screen support
Wifi/Embedded:
- 802.11ac support
- QCA98xx 11ac chipsets support
- MT76xx 11ac chipset support
- TDMA 11n support, multiple TDMA stations
Network:
- IPv6 UDP / RSS (from bz@)
- Teach the network stack about MIPS, etc that have alignment constraints (so it doesn't kernel panic)
- Split RSS platform/netinet support from RSS NIC support
- ethtool for FreeBSD (mostly define API)
Embedded Stuff
- EmbeddedDevices - A list of embedded devices supported by FreeBS
- UbiquityRouterstationPro - toying with FreeBSD 9 on the Ubiquity Routerstation Pro
- TpLink-Wr1043nd - throwing -HEAD onto the TP-Link WR1043nd.
Xen Stuff
- XenDevel - Xen development notes
- XenHackery - playing around with Xen
Atheros and Wireless stuff
- AtherosStuff - Atheros SoC work
- ath(4) - Atheros wireless work
- ath_hal(4) - Atheros HAL documentation overview
- AtherosTxAgg - Atheros TX aggregation (and general aggregation support)
- WifiTodoStuff - My Wifi TODO list
- WifiTxNotes - Notes on the net80211 / ath(4) TX path issues that need to be addressed
Profiling stuff
- ProfilingNotes - Profiling notes
Other Stuff
- BsdBox - bsdbox
- DonorsList - Who has donated stuff to me!
- EeePc701 - My Adventures making FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE work suitably on the EEEPC 701.
- Alix2c3 - Shoehorning FreeBSD onto an Alix 2c3.