February 2025 Laptop Support and Usability Project Update

The February 2025 monthly report for The FreeBSD Foundation’s Laptop Support and Usability Project is now available on GitHub.

Highlights include:

Laptop Sleep — Sleep using S0ix and s2idle low power states. A new power management driver (acpi_spmc) has been developed that can understand device power requirements and help laptops enter deeper sleep states.

Faster WiFi rates — WiFi 4 (802.11n) and WiFi 5 (802.11ac) support is now available to test for data rates at high throughput and very high throughput on modern iwlwifi (AX2xx and BExxx) chipsets.

Aiding use of Linux WiFi drivers — To better support Linux WiFi drivers, work on the translation layer – the Linux Kernel Programming Interface (LinuxKPI) implementation in FreeBSD – has been ongoing. The LinuxKPI layer is an interface that provides API-compatible implementations of many Linux kernel interfaces, greatly simplifying the adaptation of Linux driver source to FreeBSD.

Full details of the Laptop Support and Usability Project can be found in the GitHub repository.