Linux Wi-FiドライバのFullMAC/SoftMAC
https://qiita.com/eggman/items/461cefea5ba254cbbf7d
Do Access points use softMAC or hardMAC?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28343384/do-access-points-use-softmac-or-hardmac
The term 'SoftMAC' refers to a wireless network interface device (WNIC) which does not implement the MAC layer in hardware, rather it expects the drivers to implement the MAC layer.
'HardMAC' (also called 'FullMAC') describes a WNIC which implements the MAC layer in hardware.
The advantages of SoftMAC are:
Potentially lower hardware costs
Possibility to upgrade to newer standards by updating the driver only
Possibility to correct faults in the MAC implementation by updating the driver only
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/glossary
FullMAC
FullMAC is a term used to describe a type of wireless card where the MLME is managed in hardware. You would not use mac80211 to write a FullMAC wireless driver.
SoftMAC
SoftMAC is a term used to describe a type of WNIC where the MLME is expected to be managed in software. mac80211 is a driver API for SoftMAC WNIC, for example.
About mac80211
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/mac80211
A Modular, Flexible and Virtualizable Framework for IEEE 802.11
Pablo SALVADOR, Stefano PARIS, Claudio PISA, Paul PATRAS, Yan
GRUNENBERGER, Xavier PEREZ-COSTA, Janusz GOZDECKI, 2012
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ppatras/pub/funems12.pdf
References
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[2] Linuxkernelmac80211frameworkforwirelessdevicedriver. http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211.
[3] FLAVIA Project (Flexible Architecture for Internet Access). http://www.ict-flavia.eu/.
[4] “IEEE Standard for Information technology–Telecommunications and information exchange between systems–Local and metropolitan area networks–Specific requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN MAC and PHY Specifications Amendment 5: Enhancements for Higher Throughput,” IEEE Std 802.11n-2009.
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[6] T. Hamaguchi, T. Komata, T. Nagai, and H. Shigeno, “A Framework of Better Deployment for WLAN Access Point Using Virtualization Technique,” in IEEE WAINA, pp. 968 –973, Apr. 2010.
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#Wiki
Wireless network interface controller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_network_interface_controller
Comparison of open-source wireless drivers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_wireless_drivers
Linux
driver
Realtek https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new
rtl8188ee, rtl8192c, rtl8192ce, rtl8192cu, rtl8192de, rtl8192ee, rtl8192se, rtl8723ae, rtl8723be, rtl8723com, rtl8723de, rtl8821ae, rtl8822be
Mediatek (from Ralink)
https://github.com/terence-deng/mt7601u
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