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AppleIntelWiFiMVM

For the overview and installation instructions, see the main project page at https://github.com/ammulder/AppleIntelWiFiMVM/

Development Blog

http://osxwifiport.blogspot.com/

Development Notes

My current work is directed toward being able to fully initialize a network card. That is to say, put it into a state where it could be operated, if there was anything there to give it commands. After that, we'll look at things like telling it to scan for available networks, or telling it to connect to a network.

Here are a couple pages with notes on TODO's and progress. Right now this all applies to the "Porting" branch.

• Specific Linux functions that need to be replaced
• The huge list of things that has to happen to start the driver
• The startup process for the new driver

References

• Searchable Linux source
• Searchable OS X kernel (xnu) source (or browse latest source)
• Some OS X docs:
  • Kernel Programming Guide
  • IOKit Device Driver Guidelines
  • Atomic operations
• Currently-used [Linux 4.4.3 source for iwlwifi driver] (https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi?id=refs/tags/v4.4.3) (NOTE: 4.4.4 has some minor changes)
• iwlwifi project home page, with links to current and latest firmware and etc.
• Linux driver APIs
• Prior BSD port from Linux 3.14.3
• Previous port of the BSD 802.11 stack and a proof-of-concept driver and earlier documentation (in PDF)