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From:
David Uhden Collado <daviduhden@gmail.com>
Subject:
Re: Issues with MediaTek MT7922 (mwx) on OpenBSD -current on Acer Chromebook Plus 514
To:
deraadt@openbsd.org
Cc:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:17:00 +0000

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> That's your opinion.

I just found it confusing that the firmware was available, but the 
driver wasn't. It would be a good idea to create a separate list and 
warn users when installing firmware for drivers that are not yet 
available via fw_update.

> 
> When developers are still working on a driver, they ask us to SHIP THE
> FIRWMARE AHEAD OF TIME, so that other developers and specific useful people
> can play along with them to make progress.

Did you just implicitly call me useless? I admit that I'm not very 
useful when I have zero knowledge of operating system development, but I 
try to do what I can to be helpful.

> 
> After the thankless moaning you just die here, I'm pretty sure noone wants
> your participation.

These aren't ungrateful complaints (or "thankless moaning"). I was 
simply providing information about how this hardware works in OpenBSD. 
The dmesg messages I've seen online are from arm64, so I find it 
interesting to see this in amd64. I had no idea that this driver was 
still a work in progress, but now I know, the least I can do is help by 
testing new versions of the driver. I don't think it's appropriate to 
suggest that someone should "die" because of this.