This package is intended to be used with ice(4) version 0.26.16. That
update will happen in a forthcoming commit.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Intel Corporation
The ice(4) driver is the driver for the Intel E8xx series Ethernet
controllers; currently with codenames Columbiaville and
Columbia Park.
These new controllers support 100G speeds, as well as introducing
more queues, better virtualization support, and more offload
capabilities. Future work will enable virtual functions (like
in ixl(4)) and the other functionality outlined above.
For full functionality, the kernel should be compiled with
"device ice_ddp" like in the amd64 NOTES file, and/or
ice_ddp_load="YES" should be added to /boot/loader.conf so that
the DDP package file included in this commit can be downloaded
to the adapter. Otherwise, the adapter will fall back to a single
queue mode with limited functionality.
A man page for this driver will be forthcoming.
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Intel Corporation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21959
Although I added the reset type field to ath_hal_reset() years ago,
I never finished adding it both throughout the HALs and in if_ath.c.
This will eventually deprecate the ath_hal force_full_reset option
because it can be requested at the driver layer.
So:
* Teach ar5416ChipReset() and ar9300_chip_reset() about the HAL type
* Use it in ar5416Reset() and ar9300_reset() when doing a full chip reset
* Extend ath_reset() to include the HAL_RESET_TYPE parameter added in the above functions
* Use HAL_RESET_NORMAL in most calls to ath_reset()
* .. but use HAL_RESET_BBPANIC for the BB panics, and HAL_RESET_FORCE_COLD during fatal, beacon miss and other hardware related hangs.
This should be a glorified no-op outside of actual hardware issues.
I've tested things with ath_hal force_full_reset set to 1 for years now,
so I know that feature and a full reset works (albeit much slower than
a warm reset!) and it does unwedge hardware.
The eventual aim is to use this for all the places where the driver
detects a potential hang as well as if long calibration - ie, noise floor
calibration - fails to complete. That's one of the big hardware related
things that causes station mode operation to hang without easy recovery.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24981
Yes, people shouldn't use bitfields in C for structure parsing.
If someone ever wants a cleanup task then it'd be great to remove them
from this vendor code and other places in the ar9285/ar9287 HALs.
Alas, here we are.
AH_BYTE_ORDER wasn't defined and neither were the two values it could be.
So when compiling ath_ee_print_9300 it'd default to the big endian struct
layout and get a WHOLE lot of stuff wrong.
So:
* move AH_BYTE_ORDER into ath_hal/ah.h where it can be used by everyone.
* ensure that AH_BYTE_ORDER is actually defined before using it!
This should work on both big and little endian platforms.
Ok, yeah, the commit title is a bit misleading.
This has to do with CDD (cyclic delay diversity) - how this and later
wifi hardware transmits lower rates over more antennas. Eg, if you're
transmitting legacy 11abg rates on 2 or 3 antennas, you COULD just
send them all at the same time or you could delay each by tens/hundreds
of nanoseconds to try and get some better diversity characteristics.
However, this has a fun side effect - the antenna pattern is no longer
a bunch of interacting dipoles, but are a bunch of interacting dipoles
plus a bunch of changing phases. And it's frequency dependent - 50-200nS
is not exactly the same fraction of a wavelength across all of 2GHz or 5GHz!
Thus the power spectral density and maximum directional gain that you're
effectively getting is not .. well, as flat as it once was.
For more information, look up FCC/OET 13TR1003 in the FCC technical report
database. It has pretty graphics and everything.
Anyway, the problem lies thusly - the CDD code just subtracts another 3dB
or 5dB for the lower rates based on transmit antenna configuration.
However, it's not done based on operating configuration and it doesn't
take into account how far from any regulatory limits the hardware is at.
It also doesn't let us do things like transmit legacy rates and frames
on a single antenna without losing up to 5dB when we absolutely don't
need to in that case (there's no CDD used when one antenna is used!)
This shows up as the hardware behaving even worse for longer distance links
at 20MHz because, well, those are the exact rates losing a bunch more
transmit power.
* For lower power NICs (ie the majority of what is out there!) it's highly
unlikely we're going to hit anywhere near the PSD limits.
* It's doing it based on the existing limits from the CTL table (conformance
testing limits) - this isn't the regulatory max! It's what the NIC is
allowed to put out in each frequency and rate configuration! So things like
band edges, power amplifier behaviour and maximum current draw apply here.
Blindly subtracting 3 to 5dB from /this/ value is /very/ conservative..
* /and/ ath9k just plainly doesn't do any of this at all.
So, for now disable it and get the TX power back, thus matching what ath9k
in Linux is doing. If/once I get some more cycles I'll look at making it
a bit more adaptive and really only kick in if we're a few dB away from
hard regulatory limits.
Tested:
* AR9344 (2GHz + SoC, 2x2 configuration) - AP and STA modes
* QCA9580 (5GHz 2x2 and 3x3 configurations) - AP and STA modes
Version 43 requires further modifications to iwm(4), and this was not
caught in some initial testing. Version 34 works and is the version
available on Intel's web site.
MFC with: r354201
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This is in preparation for adding the corresponding support to iwm(4).
Version 46 is the latest but contains unrecognized TLVs, so use version
43 for now.
Obtained from: linux-firmware
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Disable ar9300_swap_tx_desc() for the moment. It is an unused
function only tried to compile on big endian systems.
Found by: s390x buildkernel
MFC after: 3 months
Fix the reported boot failures and revert r350510.
Note this commit is effectively merging ACPICA 20190703 again and applying
an upstream patch.
https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/73f6372
Tested by: scottl
One of the fun issues with scanning has been how the existing
ANI values were programmed into the hardware when channels were
changed. If you're on a really crappy channel and ANI has made
you deaf then when you scan you continue to be deaf on all channels.
This code passes in a flag to startpcureceive which in AR5416 and later
is also used to enable ANI. This allows it to know if it's a normal
operation or a scan operation.
This fixes my situation at home where a temporary spot of a device
going deaf due to interference starts scanning and .. can't hear
anything until I restart.
Now, this isn't the full fix - ideally:
(a) all the ANI config and per-channel information would be migrated
to the shared HAL stuff and enabled for all of the NICs;
(b) when a station reassociates and some other error conditions
(like missed beacons, NF calibration failures, etc) a knob
to reset ANI parameters would likely help recovery.
But hey, I'm committing bits of code again! woo!
Tested:
* AR9344 (2G), STA operation
The drivers were removed in r344299 so there is no need to keep the
firmware files in the src tree.
Reviewed by: imp, jhibbits, johalun
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19583
Revert r338177, r338176, r338175, r338174, r338172
After long consultations with re@, core members and mmacy, revert
these changes. Followup changes will be made to mark them as
deprecated and prent a message about where to find the up-to-date
driver. Followup commits will be made to make this clear in the
installer. Followup commits to reduce POLA in ways we're still
exploring.
It's anticipated that after the freeze, this will be removed in
13-current (with the residual of the drm2 code copied to
sys/arm/dev/drm2 for the TEGRA port's use w/o the intel or
radeon drivers).
Due to the impending freeze, there was no formal core vote for
this. I've been talking to different core members all day, as well as
Matt Macey and Glen Barber. Nobody is completely happy, all are
grudgingly going along with this. Work is in progress to mitigate
the negative effects as much as possible.
Requested by: re@ (gjb, rgrimes)
If we fail noise floor calibration then we may end up with a deaf NIC
which we can't recover without a full chip reset.
Earlier chips seem to get less stuck in this condition versus AR9280/later
and AR9300/later, but whilst here just fix up the AR5212 era chips to also
return NF calibration failures.
This HAL routine would only return failure if the channel was not configured.
This is a no-op until the driver side code for doing resets and the HAL
code for being told about the reset type (and then handling it!) is
implemented.
Tested:
* AR9280, STA mode
* AR2425, STA mode
* AR9380, STA mode
I'm in the process of reworking how the reset path works with an eye
to better recovery when the chips hang and/or go RF/PHY deaf.
This is the first step in a lot of unification and API changes.
