These are apparently conditional on there being a shared PA/LNA, which
at least on AR9462/QCA9535 devices I have isn't a thing.
I'm .. not yet sure which devices it /is/ a thing, so I'll come back
to that.
Tested:
* QCA9565 STA + bluetooth
Obtained from: Linux ath9k
* Add extra debugging - the weights debugging is really useful to ensure
things are programmed into the wlan coexistence table. The weights are
what traffic priority each of the various modes get (tx, tx-high-priority,
rx-beacon, etc) if they're all zero, things work very poorly.
* Add in coex init routines from ath9k for AR9462 and QCA9565 1ANT and 2ANT.
This control things like beacon stomping, ACK handling, antennas, PA/LNA
shared, etc.
* Some ancillary bits.
TODO:
* There's some conditional stuff around MCI_ANT_ARCH_PA_LNA_SHARED() in ath9k
which doesn't always enable force-on LNA. That'll have to be examined
and merged in as appropriate.
Obtained from: linux ath9k
Notably, this also sets AR_BTCOEX_WL_LNADIV to FORCE_ON, so LNA diversity
is always enabled and under control of the wifi chip.
Tested:
* QCA9565, STA + bluetooth mode
Obtained from: Linux ath9k
This configures the LNA antenna diversity control, which should be on
if wlan owns the LNA for bluetooth coexistence. Otherwise, make sure
it's off.
I think this is eventually intended to allow 1-antenna bluetooth +
wifi setups for QCA9565, but I'm not sure where that's actually configured
in ath9k.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k
It turns out that the srev checks can't be done in the early attach
in ar9300_freebsd.c, because the poweron and srev check hasn't yet
happened.
So:
* Re-add the MCI overrides in attach
* Add QCA9565 (Aphrodite) check for the LNA diversity stuff.
Tested:
* QCA9565, STA mode + bluetooth
The synth programming here requires the real centre frequency,
which for HT20 channels is the normal channel, but HT40 is
/not/ the primary channel. Everything else was using 'freq',
which is the correct centre frequency, but the hornet config
was using 'ichan' to do the lookup which was also the primary
channel.
So, modify the HAL call that does the mapping to take a frequency
in MHz and return the channel number.
Tested:
* Carambola 2, AR9331, tested both HT/20 and HT/40 operation.
This is a 2x2 2GHz 802.11n part. It works enough at the moment to
bring up, scan and associate. I haven't started using this as
a day to day AP.
The specifics:
* add honeybee initvals
* add in changes; a mix from the QCA HAL and ath9k;
* fix a bug in AR_SREV_AR9580_10_OR_LATER(), which is only used
for one capability check and we don't even implement it - so it's
a big no-op.
Shady things:
* ath9k has the "platform data" define the 25/40MHz clock.
This HAL .. doesn't. Honeybee gets hard-coded to 25MHz which
it likely shouldn't be. I'll have to go and identify/fix those.
Tested:
* Qualcomm Atheros AP143 reference design board.
Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros; Linux ath9k
Right now the only way to force a cold reset is:
* The HAL itself detects it's needed, or
* The sysctl, setting all resets to be cold.
Trouble is, cold resets take quite a bit longer than warm resets.
However, there are situations where a cold reset would be nice.
Specifically, after a stuck beacon, BB/MAC hang, stuck calibration results,
etc.
The vendor HAL has a separate method to set the reset reason (which is
how HAL_RESET_BBPANIC gets set) which informs the HAL during the reset path
why it occured. This is almost but not quite the same; I may eventually
unify both approaches in the future.
This commit just extends HAL_RESET_TYPE to include both status (eg BBPANIC)
and type (eg do COLD.) None of the HAL code uses it yet though; that'll
come later.
It also is a big no-op in each HAL - I need to go teach each of the HALs
about cold/warm reset through this path.
This was off because the net80211 aggregation code was using the same
state pointers for both fast frames and ampdu tx support which led to some
pretty unfortunate panic-y behaviour.
Now that net80211 doesn't panic, let's flip this back on.
It doesn't (yet) do the horrific sounding thing of A-MPDU aggregates
of fast frames; that'll come next. It's a pre-requisite to supporting
AMSDU + AMPDU anyway, which actually speeds things up quite considerably
(think packing lots of little ACK frames into a single AMSDU.)
Tested:
* QCA955x SoC, AP mode
* AR5416, STA mode
* AR9170, STA mode (with local fast frame patches)
Atheros.
Thanks to OpenBSD for providing a driver based on the original
Atheros open source driver circa 2008. This uses the early, pre-carl9170
atheros provided firmware.
It only supports 11bg at the moment. I've not tested it with 11a
(and so the TX rate control logic may be slightly wrong!) so if
you do have the dual-band version of this hardware please do let me know.
Tested:
* AR9170, TP-Link WN821N 2GHz.
TODO:
* Hook this up to a non-module build.
There are still several bugs, but I've been using it for a while now.
Thanks to all the testers and to Adrian for his help with this
driver.
This driver isn't connected to the build yet, but it will be soon.
There's no MFC planned because the driver isn't very stable yet.
Reviewed by: adrian
Obtained from: https://github.com/rpaulo/iwm
Tested by: adrian, gjb, dumbbell (others that I forgot).
Relnotes: yes
This is required for (more) correct TDMA support. Without it, the
code tries to calculate the required guard interval based on the
current rate, and since this is an 11n NIC and people try using
11n, it calls ath_hal_computetxtime() on an 11n rate which then
panics.
This doesn't fix TDMA slave mode on AR9300 - it just makes it
have one less bug.
Reported by: Berislav Purgar <bpurgar@gmail.com>
This dramatically improves RX sensitivity and behaviour on the
AR9331 hardware I have, including the Carambola 2.
Tested:
* AR9331, Carambola 2 board
Submitted by: Zilvinas Valinskas <zilvinas.valinskas@gmail.com>
This is used by the 'athsurvey' command to print out channel survey
statistics - % busy times transmit, receive and airtime.
It's as buggy and incomplete as the rest of the HAL survey support -
notably, tying into the ANI code to read channel stats and occasionally
getting garbage counters isn't very nice. It also doesn't (yet!) get
channel survey information during a scan. But it's good enough for
basic air-time debugging, which is why I'm committing it in this state.
Tested:
* AR9380, STA mode
path.
* For now there's no exposed control over classic / LNA antenna diversity,
so just stub them out. Adding this will take quite a bit of time.
* Add a function to fetch the CTS timeout.
PR: kern/198558
I don't like having it in this function; I may migrate it to ar9300_freebsd.c
at some point to keep the HAL code pollution down.
This allows ANI to be disabled via a sysctl.
Tested:
* AR9331, STA/TDMA modes
This is a custom FreeBSD HAL method that is used by the TDMA code
to program the beacon timers directly without any guesswork/assumptions
by the HAL.
This brings up basic TDMA master/slave support on the AR9380 HAL,
however there are other issues preventing it from being stable.
(I'm seeing beacon interval instability, which may be due to
busy 2GHz air, but also may be due to some HAL configuration
issues with regards to ANI, or hardware timer programming, etc.)
Tested:
* AR9331 (Carambola2), STA, AP, adhoc and TDMA master mode.
The QCA9565 can have RFKILL on GPIO Pin 11, and thus we need to configure
it up correctly or the NIC may not function.
I'm not sure why the AR9382 can't use GPIO 8 / GPIO 11 ; it's likely
hooked up to some external LNA or filter. The real solution is to
make it only block pin 8 / pin 11 for AR9382, but the AR9382 probes
like an AR9380. Sigh.
Submitted by: Anthony Jenkins <scoobi_doo@yahoo.com>
