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.
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 ani function bitmap was being badly used when determining if a command
could be used. In hostap modes only a couple of the ANI control parameters
are enabled.
* The ani function bitmap was not being reset to HAL_ANI_ALL if transitioning
from AP -> STA.
* Change mrcCckOff to mrcCck - 1 == on, rather than 1 == off. This matches
the API used to set the value from userland via the diagnostic API.
* Handle OFDM/CCK noise immunity level commands in ar9300_ani_control().
These will only come from userland and it will go and program the rest of
the ANI control parameters with the values in the ANI table.
* Ensure all of the ANI parameters can be tweaked at runtime, even if they're
disabled.
Tested:
* carambola2 (AR9331), STA/AP modes
I'm trying to debug why reception upstairs here is so terrible and it
turns out ANI is buggy. (Which is no surprise, ANI is always buggy.)
Tested:
* Carambola2 (AR9331), STA/AP modes
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.
* change the HT_RC_2_MCS to do MCS0..23
* Use it when looking up the ht20/ht40 array for bits-per-symbol
* add a clk_to_psec (picoseconds) routine, so we can get sub-microsecond
accuracy for the math
* .. and make that + clk_to_usec public, so higher layer code that is
returning clocks (eg the ANI diag routines, some upcoming locationing
experiments) can be converted to microseconds.
Whilst here, add a comment in ar5416 so i or someone else can revisit the
latency values.
The pre-11n calculations include SIFS, but the 11n ones don't.
The reason is that (mostly) the 11n hardware is doing the SIFS calculation
for us but the pre-11n hardware isn't. This means that we're over-shooting
the times in the duration field for non-11n frames on 11n hardware, which
is OK, if not a little inefficient.
Now, this is all fine for what the hardware needs for doing duration math
for ACK, RTS/CTS, frame length, etc, but it isn't useful for doing PHY
duration calculations. Ie, given a frame to TX and its timestamp, what
would the end of the actual transmission time be; and similar for an
RX timestamp and figuring out its original length.
So, this adds a new field to the duration routines which requests
SIFS or no SIFS to be included. All the callers currently will call
it requesting SIFS, so this /should/ be a glorious no-op. I'm however
planning some future work around airtime fairness and positioning which
requires these routines to have SIFS be optional.
Notably though, the 11n version doesn't do any SIFS addition at the moment.
I'll go and tweak and verify all of the packet durations before I go and
flip that part on.
Tested:
* AR9330, STA mode
* AR9330, AP mode
* AR9380, STA mode
* the code already stored the length of the RX desc, which I never used.
So, use that and retire the new flag I introduced a while ago.
* Introduce a TX timestamp length field and capability.
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.
the top-level HAL.
The athstats program is blindly using a copy of the ar5212 ANI stats structure
to pull out ANI statistics/state and this is problematic for the AR9300
HAL.
So:
* Define HAL_ANI_STATS and HAL_ANI_STATE
* Use HAL_ANI_STATS inside the AR5212 HAL
This commit doesn't (yet) convert the ar5212AniState -> HAL_ANI_STATE when
exporting it to userland; that'll come in the next commit.
These variants have a few differences from the default AR9485 NIC,
namely:
* a non-default antenna switch config;
* slightly different RX gain table setup;
* an external XLNA hooked up to a GPIO pin;
* (and not yet done) RSSI threshold differences when
doing slow diversity.
To make this possible:
* Add the PCI device list from Linux ath9k, complete with vendor and
sub-vendor IDs for various things to be enabled;
* .. and until FreeBSD learns about a PCI device list like this,
write a search function inspired by the USB device enumeration code;
* add HAL_OPS_CONFIG to the HAL attach methods; the HAL can use this
to initialise its local driver parameters upon attach;
* copy these parameters over in the AR9300 HAL;
* don't default to override the antenna switch - only do it for
the chips that require it;
* I brought over ar9300_attenuation_apply() from ath9k which is cleaner
and easier to read for this particular NIC.
This is a work in progress. I'm worried that there's some post-AR9380
NIC out there which doesn't work without the antenna override set as
I currently haven't implemented bluetooth coexistence for the AR9380
and later HAL. But I'd rather have this code in the tree and fix it
up before 11.0-RELEASE happens versus having a set of newer NICs
in laptops be effectively RX deaf.
Tested:
* AR9380 (STA)
* AR9485 CUS198 (STA)
Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros, Linux ath9k
the MYBEACON RX filter (only receive beacons which match the BSSID)
or all beacons on the current channel.
* Add the relevant RX filter entry for MYBEACON.
Tested:
* AR5416, STA
* AR9285, STA
TODO:
* once the code is in -HEAD, just make sure that the code which uses it
correctly sets BEACON for pre-AR5416 chips.
Obtained from: QCA, Linux ath9k
private per-chip HAL.
This allows the ah_osdep.[ch] code to check whether the power state is
valid for doing chip programming.
It should be a no-op for normal driver work but it does require a
clean kernel/module rebuild, as the size of HAL structures have changed.
Now, this doesn't track whether the hardware is ACTUALLY awake,
as NETWORK_SLEEP wakes the chip up for a short period when traffic
is received. This doesn't actually set the power mode to AWAKE, so
we have to be careful about how we touch things.
But it's enough to start down the path of implementing station mode
chipset power savings, as a large part of the silliness is making
sure the chip is awake during periodic calibration / ANI and
random places where transmit may be occuring. I'd rather not a repeat
of debugging power save on ath9k, where races with calibration
and transmit path stuff took a couple years to shake out.
Tested:
* AR5416, STA mode
The AR9485 chip and AR933x SoC both implement LNA diversity.
There are a few extra things that need to happen before this can be
flipped on for those chips (mostly to do with setting up the different
bias values and LNA1/LNA2 RSSI differences) but the first stage is
putting this code into the driver layer so it can be reused.
This has the added benefit of making it easier to expose configuration
options and diagnostic information via the ioctl API. That's not yet
being done but it sure would be nice to do so.
Tested:
* AR9285, with LNA diversity enabled
* AR9285, with LNA diversity disabled in EEPROM
* Call the bluetooth setup function during the reset path, so the bluetooth
settings are actually initialised.
* Call the AR9285 diversity functions during bluetooth setup; so the AR9285
diversity and antenna configuration registers are correctly programmed
* Misc debugging info.
Tested:
* AR9285+AR3011 bluetooth combo; this code itself doesn't enable bluetooth
coexistence but it's part of what I'm currently using.
for the RX path.
This is different to the div comb HAL flag, that says it actually
can use this for RX diversity (the "slow" diversity path implemented
but disabled in the AR9285 HAL code.)
Tested:
* AR9285, STA operation
* Add the rest of the missing GPIO output mux types;
* Add in a new debug category;
* And a new MCI btcoex configuration option in ath_hal.ah_config
Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros
The HAL already included the STBC fields; it just needed to be exposed
to the driver and net80211 stack.
This should allow single-stream STBC TX and RX to be negotiated; however
the driver and rate control code currently don't do anything with it.
Right now the only way to set the chainmask is to set the hardware
configured chainmask through capabilities. This is fine for forcing
the chainmask to be something other than what the hardware is capable
of (eg to reduce TX/RX to one connected antenna) but it does change what
the HAL hardware chainmask configuration is.
For operational mode changes, it (may?) make sense to separately control
the TX/RX chainmask.
Right now it's done as part of ar5416_reset.c - ar5416UpdateChainMasks()
calculates which TX/RX chainmasks to enable based on the operating mode.
(1 for legacy and whatever is supported for 11n operation.) But doing
this in the HAL is suboptimal - the driver needs to know the currently
configured chainmask in order to correctly enable things for each
TX descriptor. This is currently done by overriding the chainmask
config in the ar5416 TX routines but this has to disappear - the AR9300
HAL support requires the driver to dynamically set the TX chainmask based
on the TX power and TX rate in order to meet mini-PCIe slot power
requirements.
So:
* Introduce a new HAL method to set the operational chainmask variables;
* Introduce null methods for the previous generation chipsets;
* Add new driver state to record the current chainmask separate from
the hardware configured chainmask.
Part #2 of this will involve disabling ar5416UpdateChainMasks() and moving
it into the driver; as well as properly programming the TX chainmask
based on the currently configured HAL chainmask.
Tested:
* AR5416, STA mode - both legacy (11a/11bg) and 11n rates - verified
that AR_SELFGEN_MASK (the chainmask used for self-generated frames like
ACKs and RTSes) is correct, as well as the TX descriptor contents is
correct.
* Finish adding the HAL capability to announce whether a NIC supports
spectral scan or not;
* Add spectral scan methods to the HAL structure;
* Add HAL_SPECTRAL_PARAM for configuration of the spectral scan logic.
The capability ID and HAL_SPECTRAL_PARAM struct are from Qualcomm
Atheros.
enforcing the TXOP and TBTT limits:
* Frames which will overlap with TBTT will not TX;
* Frames which will exceed TXOP will be filtered.
This is not enabled by default; it's intended to be enabled by the
TDMA code on 802.11n capable chipsets.
* introduce a new HAL API method to pull out the TX status descriptor
contents.
* Add num_delims to the 11n first aggr method. This isn't used by the
driver at the moment so it won't affect anything.
some HAL definitions rather than local definitions.
The original source (ath9k) pulled this stuff from the QCA driver and
removed the HAL_* prefix. I'm just restoring the correct order of things.
Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros
