There's some upcoming work to add new chipset support here and I'd
like to only add 802.11n support to one driver, instead of both
urtwn and rtwn.
There's also missing support for things like 802.11n, some powersave
work, bluetooth integration/coexistence, etc, and also newer parts
(like 8192EU, maybe some 11ac parts, not sure yet.)
So, this is hopefully the first step in a longer set of steps to unify
rtwn/urtwn and extend it with more interesting chipset and functionality
support.
Reviewed by: kevlo
- Add URTWN_WITHOUT_UCODE option (will disable any firmware specific code
when set).
- Do not exclude the driver from build when MK_SOURCELESS_UCODE is set
(URTWN_WITHOUT_UCODE will be enforced unconditionally).
- Do not abort initialization when firmware cannot be loaded;
behave like the URTWN_WITHOUT_UCODE option was set.
- Drop some unused variables from urtwn_softc structure.
Tested with RTL8188EU and RTL8188CUS in HOSTAP and STA modes.
Reviewed by: kevlo
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4849
The licence grant says something exactly the same as the atheros patent
grant, which is "As long as you use this firmware on our chips, everything
is totally okay." Now, I'm pretty sure if that we /have/ to have this,
we're going to have to have it for every other firmware for every other
device in the tree.
So, I'll flip this off in -HEAD for now so people stop asking about
why rsu/urtwn don't work out of the box, and I'll kick off a larger
discussion about this in the new year.
IPv4/IPv6 checksum offloading and VLAN tag insertion/stripping.
Since uether doesn't provide a way to announce driver specific offload
capabilities to upper stack, checksum offloading support needs more work
and will be done in the future.
Special thanks to Hayes Wang from RealTek who gave input.
- Move all files related to the LinuxKPI into sys/compat/linuxkpi and
its subfolders.
- Update sys/conf/files and some Makefiles to use new file locations.
- Added description of COMPAT_LINUXKPI to sys/conf/NOTES which in turn
adds the LinuxKPI to all LINT builds.
- The LinuxKPI can be added to the kernel by setting the
COMPAT_LINUXKPI option. The OFED kernel option no longer builds the
LinuxKPI into the kernel. This was done to keep the build rules for
the LinuxKPI in sys/conf/files simple.
- Extend the LinuxKPI module to include support for USB by moving the
Linux USB compat from usb.ko to linuxkpi.ko.
- Bump the FreeBSD_version.
- A universe kernel build has been done.
Reviewed by: np @ (cxgb and cxgbe related changes only)
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
has been removed and the driver has been greatly simplified and
optimised for FreeBSD. The driver is currently not built by default.
Requested by: Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net>
options into kern.opts.mk and change all the places where we use
src.opts.mk to pull in the options. Conditionally define SYSDIR and
use SYSDIR/conf/kern.opts.mk instead of a CURDIR path. Replace all
instances of CURDIR/../../etc with STSDIR, but only in the affected
files.
As a special compatibility hack, include bsd.owm.mk at the top of
kern.opts.mk to allow the bare build of sys/modules to work on older
systems. If the defaults ever change between 9.x, 10.x and current for
these options, however, you'll wind up with the host OS' defaults
rather than the -current defaults. This hack will be removed when
we no longer need to support this build scenario.
Reviewed by: jhb
Differential Revision: https://phabric.freebsd.org/D529
- Update FDT file for BERI DE4 boards.
- Add needed kernel configuration keywords.
- Rename module to saf1761otg so that the device unit number does not
interfere with the hardware ID in dmesg.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Useful for so-called USB tethering.
- Imported code from OpenBSD
- Adapted code to FreeBSD
- Removed some unused functions
- Fixed some buffer encoding and decoding issues
- Optimised data transport path a bit, by sending multiple packets at a time
- Increased receive buffer to 16K
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Requested by: eadler @
MFC after: 2 weeks
adapters. Both devices support Gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0, and the AX88179
supports USB 3.0. The driver was written by kevlo@ and lwhsu@, with a few
bug fixes from me.
MFC after: 2 months
Support chipsets are the Realtek RTL8188SU, RTL8191SU, and RTL8192SU.
Many thanks to Idwer Vollering for porting/writing the man page and for
testing.
Reviewed by: adrian, hselasky
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Tested by: kevlo, Idwer Vollering <vidwer at gmail.com>
USB mouse and USB modem classes. Hopefully someone will find
these examples useful when implementing USB device side drivers
using the FreeBSD USB stack.
Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless cards.
This driver requires microcode which is available in FreeBSD ports:
net/urtwn-firmware-kmod.
Hiren ported the urtwn(4) man page from OpenBSD and Glen just commited a port
for the firmware.
TODO:
- 802.11n support
- Stability fixes - the driver can sustain lots of traffic but has trouble
coping with simultaneous iperf sessions.
- fix debugging
MFC after: 2 months
Tested by: kevlo, hiren, gjb
option left but actually consumed by ada(4), so move it to opt_ada.h
and get rid of opt_ata.h.
- Fix stand-alone build of atacore(4) by adding opt_cam.h.
- Use __FBSDID.
- Use DEVMETHOD_END.
- Use NULL instead of 0 for pointers.
kernel modules that include binary-only code.
More fine-grained control is provided via MK_SOURCELESS_HOST (for native code
that runs on host CPU) and MK_SOURCELESS_UCODE (for microcode).
Reviewed by: julian, delphij, freebsd-arch
Approved by: kib (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
This patch should remove the need for kldunload of USB
controller drivers at suspend and kldload of USB controller
drivers at resume.
This patch also fixes some build issues in avr32dci.c
MFC after: 2 weeks
drivers that only ever attach to a particular MAC driver, i.e. inphy(4),
ruephy(4) and xlphy(4), to the directory where the respective MAC driver
lives and only compile it into the kernel when the latter is also there,
also removing it from miibus.ko and moving it into the module of the
respective MAC driver.
- While at it, rename exphy.c, which comes from NetBSD where the MAC driver
it corresponds to also is named ex(4) instead of xl(4) but that in FreeBSD
actually identifies itself as xlphy(4), and its function names accordingly
for consistency.
- Additionally while at it, fix some minor style issues like whitespace
in the register headers and add multi-inclusion protection to inphyreg.h.
