Difference between regular and experimental driver

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kioske
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2019 16:32    Post subject: Difference between regular and experimental driver Reply with quote
I just bought an Asus RT-AC3100 and noticed that there are experimental drivers for some devices. Can anyone shed a light on the difference between the regular and the experimental driver?

Also, what's up with the preemptive kernel? I remember this had to do with CPU's task-switching mechanism back in the Intel x86 arch days.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 15, 2019 13:01    Post subject: Re: Difference between regular and experimental driver Reply with quote
kioske wrote:
Can anyone shed a light on the difference between the regular and the experimental driver?
I was curious, so I found this in a search:
https://svn.dd-wrt.com/changeset/38230

Then I asked BS, who said, "it has a mac8011 based driver and works only on dhd based chipsets. thats all. it has no nas daemon problems. doesnt deal with the broadcom driver".

As for preemptivity in DD:
https://svn.dd-wrt.com/changeset/38009
https://svn.dd-wrt.com/changeset/40452

For anyone curious on the history:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5600
https://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/Preemption
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 15, 2019 15:05    Post subject: Reply with quote
I remember when billcat's wak was run on the original suitcase. That would be a 4 pc tower cluster with 486s and a 2.0 kernel. Back in the really slippery days of SMP code. /random
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