For those of you monitoring this thread in the hopes of receiving status updates: Alan Cox very recently committed a set of supporting changes to HEAD (see
http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?v...evision=195649). John plans on updating his branch over the next few days. I'll probably have to resolve the pending driver updates against a current snapshot at that point, retest and debug any problems (as time permits). So while it will likely still be a while before there is a FreeBSD snapshot/release and BETA driver for you to test, progress is still being made.