N-PHY and later require a lot more plcp specific setup for the PHY
to know what to transmit. I've been spoilt by the atheros, intel
and realtek parts where you don't have to hand-assemble the PLCP
but .. well, apparently Broadcom require a lot more work.
This, and PHY-N itself, was the last major missing bit to get 11a
OFDM transmit to work. Without this, CCK transmit worked but
OFDM transmit would always fail (with stat.phy_err set to 0x80.)
I have no idea what 0x80 is, and I went mad reading the broadcom
vendor driver to try and figure it out.
Tested:
* BCM4312 (PHY-LP)
* BCM4321 (PHY-N), 11a, 11bg.
Set phy-full-init always to 1 for now; PHY-N supports being able to do
partial init for things like fast channel changes but I'm going to
ignore it all.
* Log the per-completion status out if requested
* If we get a PHY failure, the retrycnt is set to 0 and ack=0, so
the logic was incorrect. So, for ack=0, ensure we don't log
a retrycnt of 0 (or rate control breaks) or a negative retrycnt
(or rate control also breaks.)
Tested:
* BCM4321 (11abgn N-PHY), BCM4312 (LP-PHY)
* Ensure we set 20MHz wide channels (hard-coded) for PHY-N.
* Change the core rese tto take a flag saying "gmode" vesus uint32_t
flags. This is important for BCMA support where the "gmode" bit
is different.
* Refactor out the mac-phy clock reset routine (usde by PHY-N).
Tested:
* BCM4321 (PHY-N), BCM4312 (PHY-LP)
TODO:
* Checkpoint test on PHY-G hardware, just to check.
Different versions of firmware have different requirments for TX/RX
packet layouts (and other things, of course.) Currently the driver
checks between 3xx and 4xx firmware by using the BWN_ISOLDFMT() macro,
which doesn't take into account the 5xx firmware (which I think I need
for the HT and N series PHY chips. I'll know when I do the port.)
BWN_HDRSIZE() also needs to learn about the 5xx series firmware
as well.
So:
* add a firmware version enum
* populate it based on the firmware version we read at load time
* don't finish loading if the firmware is the 5xx firmware; any
code using BWN_ISOLDFMT or BWN_HDRSIZE needs updating (most notably
the TX and RX bits.)
Then, for RX RSSI:
* write down and reimplement the b43 rssi calculation method;
* use it for the correct PHYs (which are all the ones we support);
* do the RSSI calculation before radiotap, not after.
Tested:
* Broadcom BCM4312, STA mode
Obtained from: Linux b43 (careful writing and reimplementing; lots of integer math..)
This is an initial work in progress to use the replacement bhnd
bus code for devices which support it.
* Add manpage updates for bhnd, bhndb, siba
* Add kernel options for bhnd, bhndbus, etc
* Add initial support in if_bwn_pci / if_bwn_mac for using bhnd
as the bus transport for suppoted NICs
* if_bwn_pci will eventually be the PCI bus glue to interface to bwn,
which will use the right backend bus to attach to, versus direct
nexus/bhnd attachments (as found in embedded broadcom devices.)
The PCI glue defaults to probing at a lower level than the bwn glue,
so bwn should still attach as per normal without a boot time tunable set.
It's also not fully fleshed out - the bwn probe/attach code needs to be
broken out into platform and bus specific things (just like ath, ath_pci,
ath_ahb) before we can shift the driver over to using this.
Tested:
* BCM4311, STA mode
* BCM4312, STA mode
Submitted by: Landon Fuller <landonf@landonf.org>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6191
* Add a debug print for the xmit completion status fields.
Yes, I like staring at a stream of DWORDS.
* Set the retrycnt to the number of full frame retries for now;
I'll figure out how to factor rts/cts failures into it when
I figure out what the difference is.
It's -1 because it's not "retries", it's "tries".
It now passes the youtube test.
Tested:
* BCM4312, STA mode
I noticed that it'd associate fine, but it'd quickly stop exchanging traffic.
Receive was okay, but transmit just failed.
Then I went "wlandebug +rate". I discovered it started at 36M OFDM, and then
quickly rose to 54M, which then showed 0% transmit success.
Then, I dug into how the completion path works. We are reading 'ack=0'
in the TX status side, so .. then I discovered we were only processing the
TX completion status /if/ ack=1. So, we'd only ever count successes;
we'd never count failures, and thus the rate control code thought
everything was a-ok.
We also have to set retrycnt to something non-zero so it indeed does
bring the rate down upon failure.
So:
* Delete the rate control completion code from the tx completion
routine, it's just duplicate and never worked. Putting it behind
'if (status->ack) was pointless.
* Move it to the PIO and DMA completion routines which actually
do free the node reference and mbuf. We know at that point
what the status is, so do it there.
* Fake a retrycnt of 1 for now, so we at least count failures.
Also:
* Start adding comments about weird stuff I find with rate selection.
In this instance, we shouldn't be selecting a fallback rate that
doesn't match the currently configured mode (11a, 11b, 11g, etc.)
This isn't perfect - AMRR does try 54mbit and takes a few packets
before it figures out it's a bad idea - but it's better than nothing.
This makes the bwn(4) driver actually useful for the first time since
I've tried using it - and that dates back to 2011. I've resisted
successfully until now.
Tested:
* Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g Wireless, STA mode
WLAN (chipid 0x4312 rev 15) PHY (analog 6 type 5 rev 1) RADIO (manuf 0x17f ver 0x2062 rev 2)
TODO:
* See if the fallback rate actually /is/ working
* Question my own sanity over touching this driver in the first place.
Falling back from 6MB OFDM to 5MB CCK (a) may not work well in the
11bg PHYs, (b) won't work at all if you're 11g only, and (c) plainly
won't work for the 11a PHY.
So, don't do that!
Tested:
* BCM4312 802.11b/g Wireless, STA mode
WLAN (chipid 0x4312 rev 15) PHY (analog 6 type 5 rev 1) RADIO (manuf 0x17f ver 0x2062 rev 2)
* Break out the 'g' phy code;
* Break out the debugging bits into a separate source file, since
some debugging prints are done in the phy code;
* Make some more chip methods in if_bwn.c public.
This brings the size of if_bwn.c down to 6,805 lines which is now
approaching managable.
This (and eventually migrating the other PHY code out) is in preparation
for adding the 11n PHY. No, the 11ac PHY (for the BCM4260 softmac part) isn't
yet open source, so we can't grow that. Yet.
This trims ~3,700 lines of code from if_bwn.c, bringing it down to a slightly
less crazy sounding 10,446 lines of code.
No functional change, only trivial cases are done in this sweep,
Drivers that can get further enhancements will be done independently.
Discussed in: freebsd-current
taskqueue_enqueue() was changed to support both fast and non-fast
taskqueues 10 years ago in r154167. It has been a compat shim ever
since. It's time for the compat shim to go.
Submitted by: Howard Su <howard0su@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: sephe
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5131
- Add IEEE80211_GET_SLOTTIME(ic) macro.
- Use predefined macroses to set slot time.
Approved by: adrian (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4044
This doesn't free the mbuf upon error; the driver ic_raw_xmit method is still
doing that.
Submitted by: <s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3774
connectivity interact with the net80211 stack.
Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.
Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:
- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.
Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.
Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to pluknet@, Oliver Hartmann,
Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@, op@ and lev@, who also participated in
testing.
Reviewed by: adrian
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
* 286410
* 286413
* 286416
The initial commit broke a variety of debug and features that aren't
in the GENERIC kernels but are enabled in other platforms.
with the net80211 stack.
Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.
Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:
- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.
Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.
Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@,
op@ and lev@, who also participated in testing. Details here:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/projects/ifnet/net80211
Still, drivers: ndis, wtap, mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt, uath were not
tested. Changes to mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt are trivial and chances
of problems are low. The wtap wasn't compilable even before this change.
But the ndis driver is complex, and it is likely to be broken with this
commit. Help with testing and debugging it is appreciated.
Differential Revision: D2655, D2740
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix
PHY instead of the revision of the RADIO.
This fixes the RF switch state polling.
This is from DragonflyBSD, Commit 202e28d1f65e9f35df6032400df3242a3bafb483
Obtained from: DragonflyBSD
These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:
1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.
Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
The origin of WEP comes from IEEE Std 802.11-1997 where it defines
whether the frame body of MAC frame has been encrypted using WEP
algorithm or not.
IEEE Std. 802.11-2007 changes WEP to Protected Frame, indicates
whether the frame is protected by a cryptographic encapsulation
algorithm.
Reviewed by: adrian, rpaulo
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
