Since driver is not available for RTL8192EE, I was cursing Realtek why the hell he will not support open source…but, I remembered this works on Linux. Checked and found Realtek gives drivers for windows / linux but not BSD’s
May be there are many manufacturer’s like Realtek
In view of this situation, if Haiku changes it’s approach of having drivers only from freebsd / openbsd and looks at how to adopt Haiku to use drivers from linux, I think many Haiku user’s will be benefitted
I think I had read one of the developer writing that the linux drivers when they are updated, they become incompatible and break the package or some thing like that…
The other part is that Linux changes its internal interface between drivers and the kernel quite frequently. So, a compatibility wrapper is not a very good solution, it would only work for drivers for a specific version of Linux and needs to be changed a lot at every new release.
This is intentional from Linux: it forces manufacturers to put their drivers inside Linux git repository and maintain them there. But it also makes it harder for us to re-extract such drivers for our own use.
You are probably going to get better results by implementing a Haiku driver for your network device, and copy-pasting some of the relevant code from Linux (or finding a developer who is interested in doing that).
I don’t necessarily disagree in principle, but I’d caution against trying direct ports of Linux drivers. Some are pretty massive. The Realtek ones sit ontop of a Realtek wifi framework you’d have to port.
I ran into that with the RTL8814AU driver I’m working on. Since Realtek doesn’t release datasheets often (I did email and ask) I need to use the Linux driver for things like register mapping, but porting the entire driver is just too much junk.