AR5416 and later chipsets.
ath_hal_calibrateN() calls the HAL calibrateN function with rxchainmask=0x1.
This is not necessarily the case for AR5416 and later chipsets.
flag immediately so it's only set once per longcal interval.
Without this, the current AR5416 code will continuously spam NF
calibrations during a periodic calibration if the longcal flag
is set. The longcal flag wouldn't be cleared until the calibration
method indicates that calibrations are "complete".
This drops the rate of NF calibration updates down from "once every
shortcal" (ie, every 100ms) during a periodic calibration, to only
once per "longcal" interval. Spamming NF calibrations every 100ms
caused some potentially horrific issues in noisy environments as
NF calibrations can take longer than 100ms and this spamming can
cause invalid NF calibration results to be read back - leading to
missed beacons, and thus leading to a stuck beacon situation.
Stuck beacons cause interface resets, which restart calibrations.
This means that the longcal calibration runs every 100ms (shortcal)
until all initial calibrations are completed. This spamming can then
cause the above issues which leads to stuck beacons, leading to
interface resets, etc, etc. Quite annoying.
queue length. The default value for this parameter is 50, which is
quite low for many of today's uses and the only way to modify this
parameter right now is to edit if_var.h file. Also add read-only
sysctl with the same name, so that it's possible to retrieve the
current value.
MFC after: 1 month
that generates a fatal bus trap. Normally, the chips are setup to do
128 byte DMA bursts, but when on this CPU, they can only safely due
4-byte DMA bursts due to this bug. Details of the exact nature of the
bug are sketchy, but some can be found at
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=70060 on pages 4, 5 and 6.
There's a small performance penalty associated with this workaround,
so it is only enabled when needed on the Atheros AR71xx platforms.
Unfortunately, this condition is impossible to detect at runtime
without MIPS specific ifdefs. Rather than cast an overly-broad net
like Linux/OpenWRT dues (which enables this workaround all the time on
MIPS32 platforms), we put this option in the kernel for just the
affected machines. Sam didn't like this aspect of the patch when he
reviewed it, and I'd love to hear sane proposals on how to fix it :)
Reviewed by: sam@
* WPA-None requires ap_scan=2:
The major difference between ap_scan=1 (default) and 2 is, that no
IEEE80211_IOC_SCAN* ioctls/functions are called, though, there is a
dependency on those. For example the call to wpa_driver_bsd_scan()
sets the interface UP, this never happens, therefore the interface
must be marked up in wpa_driver_bsd_associate(). IEEE80211_IOC_SSID
also is not called, which means that the SSID has not been set prior
to the IEEE80211_MLME_ASSOC call.
* WPA-None has no support for sequence number updates, it doesn't make
sense to check for replay violations..
* I had some crashes right after the switch to RUN state, issue is
that sc->sc_lastrs was not yet defined.
Approved by: rpaulo (mentor)
MFC after: 3 weeks
o rename the new variables to comply with the naming scheme
o move the new variables to an AR5212 specific struct
o use ahp when available
o revert to previous ts_flags check
available today.
This card is a low power 802.11bgn that only does 11n rates up to MCS 7
(that's 65 Mbps in 20Mhz mode and 135 in 40Mhz mode).
802.11n is not yet supported, but will be in the future.
The driver still has a problem regarding to the setting of txpower on
the card, so don't expect good performance yet. After fixing this
problem, an MFC is possible.
Special thanks to iXsystems and S Smirnov <tonve at yandex.ru> for help
with the purchase of a netbook with this card.
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
This is needed by the upcoming AR9285 support.
Information on the layout gathered from Linux ath9k.
Not yet connected to the build.
Tested by: Eugeny Dzhurinsky
