* preserve AR_TxIntrReq on every descriptor in an aggregate chain,
not just the first descriptor;
* always blank out the descriptor in ar5416ChainTxDesc() when forming
aggregates - the way I'm using this in the 11n branch is to first
chain aggregates together, then use the other HAL calls to fill in
the details.
* Add the TID field in the TX status descriptor;
* Add in the 11n first/middle/last functions for fiddling
with the descriptors. These are from the Linux and the
reference driver, but I'm not (currently) using them.
* Add further AR_ISR_S5 register definitions.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k, Atheros
interfere with traffic, as the NF load can take quite a while and poking the
AGC every 10uS is just a bit silly.
Instead, just leave the baseband NF calibration where it is and just read it
back next time a longcal interval happens.
Some earlier series (~AR5212?) play badly with BIOSes.
In these instances, they may require a forced reset (by transitioning
the NIC through D0 -> D3 -> D0) before they probe/attach correctly.
This is currently disabled because:
* I haven't figured out the "right" code to ensure this only happens
for PCI NICs (not PCIe or Cardbus);
* I haven't at all done wide scale testing for this, and I'm not yet
ready for said wide-scale testing.
I'm documenting this primarily so users with misbehaving NICs have
something to tinker with.
Obtained from: Atheros
The final missing bit here is enabling the PCI configuration register
read, but there's currently no glue available for the HAL to read (and
write) PCI configuration space registers.
Obtained from: Atheros
The AR5008/AR9001 series NICs have a bug where BB register reads
will occasionally be corrupted. This could cause issues with things
such as ANI, which adjust operational parameters based on the
BB radio register reads. This was introduced in the AR5008 chip
and fixed with the first released AR9002 series NIC (AR9280v2.)
A followup commit will implement the acutal WAR when reading
BB registers. I'm still not sure how I'll implement it - whether
it should be done in the osdep layer, or whether it should just
live in the AR5416 HAL. Either way, they can use this capability
bit to determine whether to implement the WAR or not.
Thankyou to various sources inside Atheros who have helped me track
down what this particular issue is.
Obtained from: Atheros
There are HAL methods which are actually direct register
access, rather than simply HAL calls. Because of this, these
register accesses would use the non-debug path in ah_osdep.h
as opt_ah.h isn't included.
With this, the correct register access methods are used,
so debugging traces show things such as TXDP checking and
TSF32 access.
That way the radar errors aren't enabled prematurely.
A DFS tester has reported that radar events are reported
during channel scanning, before DFS is actually enabled.
* Break out the PCI setup override code into a new function.
* Re-apply the PCI overrides on powersave resume. The retry timeout
register isn't currently being saved/resumed by the PCI driver/bus
code.
Pre-11n devices and AR5416 use AR_PHY(263) for current RX RSSI.
AR9130 and later have a fourth calibration register (for doing
ADC calibration) and thus the register has moved to AR_PHY(271).
This isn't currently used by any of the active code; I'm committing
this for completeness and in case any third party code attempts to
use it for legacy reasons.
* The AR_ISR_RAC interrupt processing method has a subtle bug in all
the MAC revisions (including pre-11n NICs) until AR9300v2.
If you're unlucky, the clear phase clears an update to one of the
secondary registers, which includes TX status.
This shows up as a "watchdog timeout" if you're doing very low levels
of TX traffic. If you're doing a lot of non-11n TX traffic, you'll
end up receiving a TX interrupt from some later traffic anyway.
But when TX'ing 11n aggregation session traffic (which -HEAD isn't yet
doing), you may find that you're only able to TX one frame (due to
BAW restrictions) and this may end up hitting this race condition.
The only solution is to not use RAC and instead use AR_ISR and the
AR_ISR_Sx registers. The bit in AR_ISR which represents the secondary
registers are not cleared; only the AR_ISR_Sx bits are. This way
any updates which occur between the read and subsequent write will
stay asserted and (correctly) trigger a subsequent interrupt.
I've tested this on the AR5416, AR9160, AR9280. I will soon test
the AR9285 and AR9287.
* The AR_ISR TX and RX bits (and all others!) are set regardless of
whether the contents of the AR_IMR register. So if RX mitigation is
enabled, RXOK is going to be set in AR_ISR and it would normally set
HAL_INT_RX.
Fix the code to not set HAL_INT_RX when RXOK is set and RX mitigation
is compiled in. That way the RX path isn't prematurely called.
I would see:
* An interrupt would come in (eg a beacon, or TX completion) where
RXOK was set but RXINTM/RXMINT wasn't;
* ath_rx_proc() be called - completing RX frames;
* RXINTM/RXMINT would then fire;
* ath_rx_proc() would then be called again but find no frames in the
queue.
This fixes the RX mitigation behaviour to not overly call ath_rx_proc().
* Start to flesh out more correct timer interrupt handling - it isn't
kite/merlin specific. It's actually based on whether autosleep support
is enabled or not.
This is sourced from my 11n TX branch and has been tested for a few weeks.
Finally, the interrupt handling change should likely be implemented
for AR5210, AR5211 and AR5212.
There are some timing concerns which I've yet to fully map out.
In any case, there's an existing software driven mitigation method
for TX interrupts and when TX'ing 11n frames, the whole frame itself
generates an interrupt rather then the subframes.
Although I tried to fix this earlier by introducing HALDEBUG_G(), it
turns out there seem to be other cases where the pointer value is still
NULL.
* Fix DO_HALDEBUG() and the HALDEBUG macro to check whether ah is NULL
before deferencing it
* Remove HALDEBUG_G() as it's no longer needed
This is hopefully a merge candidate for 9.0-RELEASE as enabling
debugging at startup could result in a kernel panic.
rather than the whole beacon interval.
The reference driver and Linux ath9k both choose 80% of the
beacon interval and they do it in the driver rather than
the HAL (Ath reference) or ath9k_hw (ath9k.)
This quietens stuck beacon conditions on my AR9220/AR9280
based NICs when a lot of burst broadcast/multicast traffic
is going on. It doesn't seem to annoy the earlier MACs as
much as the AR9280 and later one.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k, Atheros
local variable with a beacon interval of 100 TU. This never gets modified
if the beacon interval configuration changes.
This may have been correct in earlier times, but with the advent of
staggered beacons (which default to 1 / ATH_BCBUF beacon interval, so
25 TU here) this value is incorrect.
It is used to configure the default CABQ readytime. So here, the cabq
was being configured to be much greater than the target beacon timer
(TBTT.)
The driver should be configuring a cabq readytime value rather then
leaving it to the HAL to choose sensible defaults. This should be
done in the future - I'm simply trying to ensure sensible defaults
are chosen.
This is another commit in a series of TDMA support fixes for the 11n NICs.
* Move ath_hal_getnexttbtt() into the HAL; write methods for it.
This returns a timer value in TSF, rather than TU.
* Move ath_hal_getcca() and ath_hal_setcca() into the HAL too, where they
likely now belong.
* Create a new HAL capability: HAL_CAP_LONG_RXDESC_TSF.
The pre-11n NICs write 15 bit TSF snapshots into the RX descriptor;
the AR5416 and later write 32 bit TSF snapshots into the RX descriptor.
* Use the new capability to choose between 15 and 31 bit TSF adjustment
functions in ath_extend_tsf().
* Write ar5416GetTsf64() and ar5416SetTsf64() methods.
ar5416GetTsf64() tries to compensate for TSF changes at the 32 bit boundary.
According to yin, this fixes the TDMA beaconing on 11n chipsets and TDMA
stations can now associate/talk, but there are still issues with traffic
stability which need to be investigated.
The ath_hal_extendtsf() function is also used in RX packet timestamping;
this may improve adhoc mode on the 11n chipsets. It also will affect the
timestamps seen in radiotap frames.
Submitted by: Kang Yin Su <cantona@cantona.net>
Approved by: re (kib)
reference driver does clear the async interrupts after each service.
I'll tinker with this in a future commit.
Obtained from: Atheros
Approved by: re (kib)
When the fast clock (44mhz) is enabled for 5ghz HT20, the
dual ADCs aren't enabled. Trying to do the ADC calibrations
here would result in calibration never completing; this
resulted in IQ calibration never running and thus performance
issues in 11a/11n HT20 mode.
Leave it enabled for non-fastclock (40mhz) 11a mode and
HT40 modes.
This has been fixed in discussion with Felix Fietkau (nbd)
and discussions with the Atheros baseband team.
Linux ath9k now has a similar fix.
Approved by: re (kib)
The AR5212 HAL didn't check this field; timers are enabled a different
way.
The AR5416 HAL however did, and since this field was uninitialised, it had
whatever was on the stack at the time. This lead to "unpredictable"
behaviour.
This allows TDMA to work on the AR5416 and later chipsets.
Thanks to: paradyse@gmail.com
Approved by: re (kib, blanket)
* Fix SLEEP1/SLEEP2 register definitions; the CAB/Beacon timeout
fields have changed in AR5416 and later
* The TIM_PERIOD and DTIM_PERIOD registers are now microsecond fields,
not TU.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k, Atheros reference
Approved by: re (kib, blanket)
or later. Previous hardware had some as TU, some as 1/8th
TU.
* Modify AR_NEXT_DBA and AR_NEXT_SWBA to use a new macro,
ONE_EIGHTH_TU_TO_USEC(), which converts the 1/8th TU
fields to USEC. This is just cosmetic and matches the
Atheros reference driver.
* Fix AR_NEXT_TBTT, which is USEC, not TU.
Submitted by: paradyse@gmail.com
Approved by: re (kib, blanket)
needing this particular modification.
It can be called during ath_dfs_radar_enable() and still achieve the
same functionality, so I am.
Approved by: re (kib, blanket)
Remove this debugging, it's not needed anymore and when not enabled,
those variables trigger a compiler warning.
Approved by: re (kib, blanket)
Pointy-hat-to: adrian, for not testing a non-debug compile of this code enough
allows it to be overridden at runtime.
Thus, add a function which updates ah_dfsDomain after a channel set
call to ath_hal_set_channels().
Approved by: re (kib, blanket)
and the Atheros reference code.
The radar detection code needs to know what the current DFS domain is.
Since net80211 doesn't currently know this information, it's extracted
from the HAL regulatory domain information.
The specifics:
* add a new ath_dfs API hook, ath_dfs_init_radar_filters(), which
updates the radar filters whenever the regulatory domain changes.
* add HAL_DFS_DOMAIN which describes the currently configured DFS domain .
* add a new HAL internal variable which tracks the currently configured
HAL DFS domain.
* add a new HAL capability, HAL_CAP_DFS_DMN, which returns the currently
configured HAL DFS domain setting.
* update the HAL DFS domain setting whenever the channel setting is
updated.
Since this isn't currently used by any radar code, these should all
be no-ops for existing users.
Obtained from: Atheros
Submitted by: KBC Networks, sibridge
Approved by: re (kib, blanket)
if 5ghz fast clock is enabled in the current operating mode.
It's slightly dirty, but it's part of the reference HAL and used by
the (currently closed-source) radar event code to map radar pulses
back to microsecond durations.
Obtained from: Atheros
Approved by: re (kib, blanket)
the ar9130 code.
Since at least one kernel config specifies individual ath HAL chips
rather than just "device ath_hal" (arm/AVILA), I'm doing this so people
aren't caught out when they update to -HEAD or 9.0 and discover their
ath setup doesn't compile.
I'll revisit this with a proper fix sometime before 9.0-RELEASE.
Approved by: re (kib, blanket)
Pointed out by: ray@
Pointy hat to: adrian@
systems, in the same way that AR9130 embedded systems work.
This isn't -everything- that is required - the PCI glue still
needs to be taught about the eepromdata hint, along the same
lines as the AHB glue.
Approved by: re (kib, blanket)
truly.
Before 802.11n, the RX descriptor list would employ the "self-linked tail
descriptor" trick which linked the last descriptor back to itself.
This way, the RX engine would never hit the "end" of the list and stop
processing RX (and assert RXEOL) as it never hit a descriptor whose next
pointer was 0. It would just keep overwriting the last descriptor until
the software freed up some more RX descriptors and chained them onto the
end.
For 802.11n, this needs to stop as a self-linked RX descriptor tickles the
block-ack logic into ACK'ing whatever frames are received into that
self-linked descriptor - so in very busy periods, you could end up with
A-MPDU traffic that is ACKed but never received by the 802.11 stack.
This would cause some confusion as the ADDBA windows would suddenly
be out of sync.
So when that occured here, the last descriptor would be hit and the PCU
logic would stop. It would only start again when the RX descriptor list
was updated and the PCU RX engine was re-tickled. That wasn't being done,
so RXEOL would be continuously asserted and no RX would continue.
This patch introduces a new flag - sc->sc_kickpcu - which when set,
signals the RX task to kick the PCU after its processed whatever packets
it can. This way completed packets aren't discarded.
In case some other task gets called which resets the hardware, don't
update sc->sc_imask - instead, just update the hardware interrupt mask
directly and let either ath_rx_proc() or ath_reset() restore the imask
to its former setting.
Note: this bug was only triggered when doing a whole lot of frame snooping
with serial console IO in the RX task. This would defer interrupt processing
enough to cause an RX descriptor overflow. It doesn't happen in normal
conditions.
Approved by: re (kib, blanket)
interrupt storm.
This is easily triggered by flipping on and off tcpdump -y IEEE802_11_RADIO
w/ witness enabled. This causes a whole lot of console IO and when you're
attached to a serial console (eg on my AR7161 embedded board), the RX
interrupt doesn't get called quickly enough and the RX queue fills up.
This wasn't a problem in the past because of the self-linked RX descriptor
trick - the RX would never hit the "end" of the RX descriptor list.
However this isn't possible for 802.11n (see previous commit history for
why.)
Both Linux ath9k and the Atheros reference driver code do this; I'm just
looking now for where they then restart the PCU receive. Right now the RX
will just stop until the interface is reset.
Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
Approved by: re (kib)
The AR9280 apparently has an issue with descriptors which straddle a page
boundary (4k). I'm not yet sure whether I should use PAGE_SIZE in the
calculations or whether I should use 4096; the reference code uses 4096.
This patch fiddles with descriptor allocation so a descriptor entry
doesn't straddle a 4kb address boundary. The descriptor memory allocation
is made larger to contain extra descriptors and then the descriptor
address is advanced to the next 4kb boundary where needed.
I've tested this both on Merlin (AR9280) and non-Merlin (in this case,
AR9160.)
Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
Approved by: re (kib)
This seems to indicate whether to program the NIC for fractional 5ghz
mode (ie, 5mhz spaced channels, rather than 10 or 20mhz spacing) or not.
The default (0) seems to mean "only program fractional mode if needed".
A different value (eg 1) seems to always enable fractional 5ghz mode
regardless of the frequency.
Obtained from: Atheros
Approved by: re (kib)
Calibration/PCI data that's written to flash (rather than EEPROM attached
to the NIC) is typically already in host-endian. The existing checks
end up swapping 16 bit words incorrectly - the correct solution would be
to read the magic value and determine the EEPROM endianness from that.
(This is what Linux does.)
This doesn't completely enable embedded use of the AR9285/AR9287 -
notably, the EEPROM read methods need to be made generic and available
to all EEPROM drivers. I'll worry about that later.
Approved by: re (kib)
* I messed up the order of parameter true/false; oops!
* AR_PHY_RADAR_1 was being written at the wrong place, and was writing
potential garbage to the hardware.
Approved by: re (kib)
* Teach the AR5212/AR5416 ANI code to use the RX filter methods, rather
than calling the RX filter routines directly.
* Make HAL_ANI_PRESENT and HAL_ANI_MODE unconditionally available,
regardless of whether ah_ani_function is masking it.
* (Mostly) fully disable ANI if interference mitigation is disabled.
When disabled, the ANI code doesn't touch any ANI/PHY registers,
leaving them the default value. This is in line with what the
Atheros reference driver does.
* Correctly set the ANI parameters during ANI reset, rather than
when ANI is enabled. In this way, if ANI is disabled or enabled
whilst the NIC is not active (and there's no current channel),
bogus parameters or a NULL pointer deference doesn't occur.
There's still some lingering issues - notably, the MIB events/interrupts
aren't fully disabled, so MIB interrupts still occur. I'll worry about
that later.
Approved by: re (kib)
This in particular fixes radar PHY handling - on the AR5212
NIC, one enables the AR_PHY_ERR_RADAR bit in AR_PHY_ERR;
the AR5416 and later also needs a bit set in AR_RX_FILTER.
A follow-up commit is needed to convert the AR5416 ANI code
to use this particular method, as it's currently using the
AR5212 methods directly.
Obtained from: Atheros
Approved by: re (kib)
the ADC calibrations if the NIC is in 5ghz 11a or 5ghz HT/20 modes.
I've been told that the dual-ADC is only engaged in turbo/40mhz modes.
Since Sowl (AR9160) seems to return valid-looking calibration data
in 5ghz 20MHz modes, I'm only disabling it for Merlin for now.
It may turn out I can disable it for all chipsets and only enable
it for 40MHz modes.
Approved by: re (kib)
It looks like this was mixed up with the AR9285 calibration code.
This code is now more in line with what Linux ath9k and Atheros
reference drivers do.
Obtained from: Atheros
Approved by: re (kib)
Although this may not be what the original sysctl was designed to do,
it feels a bit more "expected".
Before, if ANI is disabled, the initial ANI parameters are still written
to the hardware, even if they're not enabled. "ANI enabled" would then
adjust the noise immunity parameters dynamically. Disabling ANI would
simply leave the existing noise immunity parameters where they are,
and disable the dynamic part.
The problem is that disabling ANI doesn't leave the hardware in
a consistent, predictable state - so asking a user to disable ANI
wouldn't actually reset the NIC to a consistent set of PHY signal
detection parameters, resulting in an unpredictable/unreliable outcome.
This makes it difficult to get reliable debugging information from
the user.
Approved by: re (kib)
Since no actual radar data is ever handled, this won't
do anything. It's mostly here as a reference for those who
wish to experiment with radar detection.
Approved by: re (kib)
ioctl interface for DFS modules to use.
Since there's no open source dfs code yet, this doesn't introduce any
operational changes.
Approved by: re (kib)
tools.
* introduce pe_enabled, which (will) indicate whether the radar
detection stuff is enabled or not. Right now it's incorrectly
set, based on something previously written. I'll sort it out
later.
* Don't set HAL_PHYERR_PARAM_ENABLE in pe_relstep to say whether
radar detection is on.
* Return whether blockradar, fir128 and enmaxrssi is enabled.
* Change some of the phyerr params to be integers rather than
HAL_BOOL so they can be set to the NOPARAM value when the
setup function is called. This is in line with other radar
parameters.
* Add new configuration parameters for fir128, blockradar and
enmaxrssi, rather than defaulting to off, on and on respectively.
Approved by: re (kib)
polluting the AR5416 code with later chipset support.
Note: ar9280InitPLL() supports Merlin (AR9280) and later (AR9285, AR9287.)
Submitted by: ssgriffonuser@gmail.com
Approved by: re (kib)
These should be disabled for the AR5416 in hostap/mesh/ibss mode,
as the AR5416 doesn't have support for radar detection on the
ext channel of a HT40 setup. Later chips do.
Approved by: re (kib)
reference driver.
* Australia should use FCC3_WORLD
* Add some new SKUs; these are just the EEPROM values and haven't been
fully defined yet. As such they won't affect anything.
Obtained from: Atheros
Approved by: re (kib)
This was removed accidentally when the per HAL instance
code was added, and not reverted when I added back the
global debug variable (for early chip setup debugging.)
the AP doesn't transmit beacons.
If the AP requests a CSA (ie, a channel switch) and then enters CAC
(channel availability check) for 60 seconds, it doesn't send beacons
and it just listens for radar events (and other things which we don't
do yet.)
Now, ath_newstate() was not resetting the beacon timer config on
a transition to the RUN state when in STA mode - it was setting
sc_syncbeacon, which simply updates the beacon config from the
contents of the next received beacon.
This means the STA never generates beacon miss events.
If the AP goes into CAC for 60 seconds and recovers, the STA will
happily receive the first beacon and reconfigure timers.
But if it gets a radar event after that, it'll change channel
again, not notify the station that it's changed channel..
and since the station is happily waiting for the first beacon
to configure the beacon timer details from, it won't ever
generate a beacon miss interrupt and it'll sit there forever
(or until the AP appears on that channel once again.)
This change forces the last known beacon timer config to be
written to hardware on a transition from CSA->RUN in STA mode.
This forces bmiss events to occur and the STA will eventually
(after a handful of beacon miss events) begin scanning for
another access point.
The DFS code was tickling the channel set directly whilst going
through the state RUN -> CSA -> RUN. This only changed the channel;
it didn't go via ath_reset(). However in this driver, a channel
change always causes a chip reset, which resets the beacon timer
configuration and interrupt setup. This meant that data would go
out but as the beacon timers never fired, beacons would never
be queued.
The confusing part is that sometimes the state transition was
RUN -> SCAN -> CAC -> RUN (with CSA being in there sometimes);
going via SCAN would clear sc_beacons and thus the transition
to RUN would reprogram beacon transmission.
In case someone tries debugging why suspending a device currently
beaconing (versus just RX'ing beacons which is what occurs in STA
mode), add a silly comment which should hopefully land them at
this commit message. The call to ath_hal_reset() will be clearing
the beacon config and it may not be always reset.
can be tested.
This doesn't at all actually do radar detection! It's just
so developers who wish to test the net80211 DFS code can easily
do so. Without this flag, the DFS channels are never marked
DFS and thus the DFS stuff doesn't run.
to do about the few cases where the HAL state isn't available (regdomain)
or isn't yet setup (probe/attach.)
The global ath_hal_debug now affects all instances of the HAL.
This also restores the ability for probe/attach debugging to work; as
the sysctl tree may not be attached at that point. Users can just set
the global "hw.ath.hal.debug" to a suitable value to enable probe/attach
related debugging.
rather than global variables.
This specifically allows for debugging to be enabled per-NIC, rather
than globally.
Since the ath driver doesn't know about AH_DEBUG, and to keep the ABI
consistent regardless of whether AH_DEBUG is enabled or not, enable the
debug parameter always but only conditionally compile in the debug
methods if needed.
The ALQ support is currently still global pending some brainstorming.
Submitted by: ssgriffonuser@gmail.com
Reviewed by: adrian, bschmidt
For the AR5211/AR5212, this is apparently a one byte pulse duration
counter value. It is only coded up here for the AR5212 as I don't have
any AR5211-series hardware to test it on.
This information was extracted from the Madwifi DFS branch along with
some local additions.
Please note - all this does is extract out the radar event duration,
it in no way reflects the presence of a radar. Further code is needed
to take a set of radar events and filter them to extract out correct
radar pulse trains (and ignore other events.)
For further information, please see:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/dev/ath_hal%284%29/RadarDetection
This includes references to the relevant patents which describe what
is going on.
Obtained from: Madwifi
module.
* If sc->sc_dodfs is set to 1 by the ath_dfs_radar_enable(),
set the relevant rx filter bit to begin receiving radar PHY
errors. The HAL code already knows how to set the relevant
error mask register to enable radar events.
* Add a missing call to ath_dfs_radar_enable() after ath_hal_reset()
* change ath_dfs_process_phyerr() to take a const char *buf for now,
rather than a descriptor. This way it can get access to the packet
buffer contents.
This is in no way a complete DFS/radar detection implementation!
It merely creates an abstracted interface which allows for future
development of the DFS radar detection code.
Note: Net80211 already handles the bulk of the DFS machinery,
all we need to do here is figure out that a radar event has occured
and inform it as such. It then drives the DFS state engine for us.
The "null" DFS radar detection module is included by default;
it doesn't require a device line.
This commit:
* Adds a simple abstracted layer for radar detection state -
sys/dev/ath/ath_dfs/;
* Implements a null DFS module which doesn't do anything;
(ie, implements the exact behaviour at the moment);
* Adds hooks to the ath driver to process received radar events
and gives the DFS module a chance to determine whether
a radar has been detected.
Obtained from: Atheros
Please note - this doesn't in any way constitute a full DFS
implementation, it merely adds the relevant capability bits and
radar detection threshold register access.
The particulars:
* Add new capability bits outlining what the DFS capabilities
are of the various chipsets.
* Add HAL methods to set and get the radar related register values.
* Add AR5212 and AR5416+ DFS radar related register value
routines.
* Add a missing HAL phy error code that's related to radar event
processing.
* Add HAL_PHYERR_PARAM, a data type that encapsulates the radar
register values.
The AR5212 routines are just for completeness. The AR5416 routines
are a super-set of those; I may later on do a drive-by pass to
tidy up duplicate code.
Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
hardware supports it.
Since ni->ni_htcap in hostap mode is what the remote end has advertised,
not what has been negotiated/decided, we need to check ourselves what
the current channel width is and what the hardware supports before
enabling short-GI.
It's important that short-GI isn't enabled when it isn't negotiated
and when the hardware doesn't support it (ie, short-gi for 20mhz channels
on any chip < AR9287.)
I've quickly verified this on the AR9285 in 11n mode.
This has been disabled until now because there hasn't been any supported
device which has this feature. Since the AR9287 is the first device to
support it, and since now the HAL has functional AR9287+11n support,
flip this on.
AR9287 EEPROM layout.
The AR9287 only supports 2ghz, so I've removed the 5ghz code (but left
the 5ghz edge flags in there for now) and hard-coded the 2ghz-only
path.
Whilst I'm there, fix a typo (ar9285->ar9287.)
This meets basic TX throughput testing - iperf TX tests == 27-28mbit in 11g,
matching the rest of my 11g kit.
I'm assuming for now that the AR9287 is only open-loop TX power control
(as mine is) so I've hard-coded the attach path to fail if the NIC is
not open-loop.
This greatly simplifies the TX calibration path and the amount of code
which needs to be ported over.
This still isn't complete - the rate calculation code still needs to be
ported and it all needs to be glued together.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k
It isn't linked into the build because it's missing the TX power
and PDADC programming code.
This code is mostly based on the ath9k codebase, compared against
the Atheros codebase as appropriate.
What's implemented:
* probe/attach
* EEPROM board value programming
* RX initial calibration
* radio channel programming
* general MAC / baseband setup
* async fifo setup
* open-loop tx power calibration
What's missing before it can be enabled by default:
* TX power / calibration setting code
* closed-loop tx power calibration routines
* TSF2 handling
* generic timer support from ath9k
Obtained from: Atheros, ath9k
values for the commands, compared to the internal command values
(HAL_ANI_CMD.)
My eventual aim is to make the HAL_ANI_CMD internal enum match
the public API and then remove all this messiness.
This now allows HAL_CAP_INTMIT users to use a public HAL_CAP_INTMIT_
enum rather than magic constants.
The only magic constants currently used by if_ath are "enable" and
"present". Some local tools of mine allow for direct, manual fiddling
of the ANI variables and I'll convert these to use the public enum API
before I commit them.
of the ANI statistics and committing some tools which use these.
* Change HAL_ANI_* commands _back_ to be numerical, rather than a
bitmap;
* modify access to the ANI control bitmap to convert a command to
a bitmap;
* Fix the ANI noise immunity fiddling for CCK errors - it wasn't
checking whether noise immunity was disabled or not.
which did AR5212 specific initialisation. This would cause some slight
silliness when enabling/disabling ANI.
Just to be completely correct - and to ensure the phy error mask/RX filter
register isn't incorrectly played with - make the ANI control function a
method, have it set appropriately for AR5212/AR5416, and call that from the
ANI control interface.
This should hopefully make it clearer to developers what is going on
and when TPC is being hacked on, make it obvious why it isn't working for
series 1, 2, 3.
I won't flip on setting TX power for TX series 1, 2, 3 until I've done
some further testing with Kite to ensure it doesn't break anything.
(Before people ask - yes, TPC is only needed for 5ghz regdomains and
yes, Kite is a 2.4ghz only chip, but there are potential use cases
for 2ghz TPC. I just need to sit down and ensure it's supported and
functional.)
control the antenna control bits for the four TX series and the
TPC settings for TX series 1, 2, 3.
The specifics:
* The TPC setting for TX series 0 is handled in ctl0.
* TPC is currently disabled, so the per-packet TX power is
set via the global per-rate TX power register, not per packet.
* The antenna control bits don't matter for AR5416 and later
so they should stay 0 (which they currently do); they may
be set for Kite but as there's no TX diversity supported
at the moment (it requires the NIC to be built with an
external antenna switch, matching how antenna diversity
is done on legacy NICs), so again keep them 0.
This is in preparation for supporting per-rate TPC on the
AR5416 and later. The Kite (and soon to come Kiwi) code
sets ctl8-11 to 0x0, which doesn't have any effect at
the moment. When TPC is enabled it would result in the
second, third and fourth TX series attmpts to be done with
a TX power of 0. This commit doesn't change that; it'll
be followed up with some commits to properly set the TPC
registers appropriately.
the multicast key search support for AR5212, AR5416 and later.
The general HAL routine ath_hal_getcapability() implement checking this
but it's overridden by a check in ar5212_misc:ar5212GetCapability().
This restores the later functionality in case it's found to be broken
in any of the 11n chipsets.
Since the returned NF will be -ve, checking for <= 0 is not good
enough. For now, check whether it equals 0 or -1; a future commit
will tidy this mess up and have it return HAL_BOOL instead.
The eeprom Get method should return HAL_OK if fastclock is enabled in the
EEPROM. It was returning the opposite of what it should have.
Submitted by: Matthew Fleming <mdf356@gmail.com>
The code assumed it could return HAL_OK, HAL_EINVAL and other
HAL_STATUS types; so it shouldn't be declared as returning HAL_BOOL.
This commit was brought to you by the Clang compiler.
Submitted by: Matthew Fleming <mdf356@gmail.com>
I've tested this locally and it does indeed read and attach to an AR9287
EEPROM. But a lot more code needs to be ported over to the HAL before
the AR9287 is functional.
I'm importing this separate from the rest of the codebase (and unlinked from
the build for now) in case someone wishes to begin fiddling with porting
the rest of the code over from Linux ath9k.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k
is totally disabled.
The Atheros HAL code does this for Sowl/Howl but not for Owl (AR5416) where
RIFS is disabled by default.
This seems to quieten the occasional baseband hang I've been seeing with
the AR9160 in STA mode under constant heavy traffic load.
Obtained from: Atheros
Some files keep the SUN4V tags as a code reference, for the future,
if any rewamped sun4v support wants to be added again.
Reviewed by: marius
Tested by: sbruno
Approved by: re
for the AR9280 based NICs if it's actually enabled.
Some of the OLC code was erroneously called during setup
and calibration. This may have caused some incorrect behaviour.
table which contains the per-rate target TX power.
This code is shared between the v14 eeprom board setup (AR5416, AR9160,
AR9280) and will also be used by the upcoming Kite (AR9287) support.
* grab the main, alt and selected LNA config
* add some optional / disabled logging code
* add a check to reject packets with an invalid main rssi too,
in case the alt is the active receive chain and main is -ve.
Note: The software-controlled combined diversity code is still disabled.
environments.
In setups where NF calibration can take a while, don't load the CCA
and kick off a new NF calibration if the previous one hasn't yet
completed. This shouldn't happen unless the environment is noisy but
those exist (hi phk!).
Here, if the previous NF hasn't completed when ar5416LoadNf() is run
(which reads the NF), it skips updating the history buffer, loading
the NF CCA array and kicking off the next NF cal. It's hoped it'll
occur in the next long calibration interval.
Obtained from: Atheros, ath9k, my local HAL
This is taking quite a while for some people in some situations
(eg AR5418 in phk's Abusive Radio Environment).
Instead, the rest of the calibration related code should
ensure that a NF calibration has occured before reading NF
values and kicking off another NF calibration.
The channel should also likely be marked as "noisy" (CWINT)
if the NF calibration takes too long.
* Correct some of the silicon revision checks to match what
the Atheros HAL does. (See [1] below.)
* Move the PA cal and init cal method assignment to -after-
the mac version/revision IDs are stored. The AR9285 init
cal was never being called.
* Enable ANI.
Note Kite 1.0 and 1.1 were prototypes that shouldn't be seen
in the wild. Linux ath9k simply removed the prototype code from
their codebase. I'm going to leave it in there for now but
make it conditionally compilable in the future.
Obtained from: Atheros
from Atheros as to what/when this is supposed to be enabled.
Using the default RX fast diversity settings seems to help quite
a bit.
Whilst I'm here, change the prototype to return HAL_BOOL rather than int.
For now, the diversity settings are controlled by 'txantenna',
-not- rxantenna. This is because the earlier chipsets had
controllable TX diversity; the RX antenna setting twiddles
the default antenna register. I'll try sort that stuff out at
some point.
Call the antenna switch function from the board setup function
so scans, channel changes, mode changes, etc don't set the
diversity back to a default state too far from what's intended.
Things to todo:
* Squirrel away the last antenna diversity/combining parameters
and restore them during board setup if HAL_ANT_VARIABLE is
defined. That way scans, etc don't reset the diversity settings.
* Add some more public facing statistics, rather than what's
simply logged under HAL_DEBUG_DIVERSITY.
For now, the fixed antenna settings behave better than variable
settings for me. I have some further fiddling to do..
Obtained from: Atheros
The macro which I incorrectly copied into ah_internal.h assumed
that it'd be called with an AR_SREV_MERLIN_20() check to ensure
it was only enabled for Merlin (AR9280) silicon revision 2.0 or
later.
Trouble is, the 5GHz fast clock EEPROM flag is only valid for
EEPROM revision 16 or greater; it's assumed to be enabled
by default for Merlin rev >= 2.0. This meant it'd be incorrectly
set for AR5416 and AR9160 in 5GHz mode.
This would have affected non-default clock timings such as SIFS,
ACK and slot time. The incorrect slot time was very likely wrong
for 5ghz mode.
* Modify AR_SREV_MERLIN_20() to match the Atheros/Linux ath9k behaviour -
its supposed to match Merlin 2.0 and later Merlin chips.
AR_SREV_MERLIN_20_OR_LATER() matches AR9280 2.0 and later chips
(AR9285, AR9287, etc.)
for the given channel is available.
It isn't used yet; ar5416GetWirelessModes() needs to be taught
about this rather than assuming HT20/HT40 is available.
This seems to make the AR9160 behave better during heavy scanning,
where before it'd hang and require a hard reset to recover.
Obtained From: Linux ath9k, Atheros
modifying AR_DIAG_SW.
There's a hardware workaround which sets disabling some errors
early at startup and clears said bits before the PCU begins
receiving - it does this to avoid RX descriptor status errors.
It's possible these bits aren't being completely properly twiddled
in all instances; but in particular if the diag_reg HAL variable
is set it won't be setting these bits correctly. I'll review this
at some point.
* Disable multicast search on mac address and key id - the driver
doesn't use it at the moment and thus adhoc may be broken for
merlin and later.
* Change this to be for Merlin 1.0 (which from what I understand
wasn't ever publicly released) to be more correct.
Apparently all three RX chains need to be enabled before initial calibration
is done, even if only two are configured.
Reorder the alt chain swap bit to match what the Atheros HAL is doing.
Obtained From: ath9k, Atheros
* Shuffle some of the capability numbers around to match the
Atheros HAL capability IDs, just for consistency.
* Add some new capabilities to FreeBSD from the Atheros
HAL which will be be shortly used when new chipsets are added
(HAL SGI-20 support is for Kiwi/AR9287 support); for
TX aggregation (MBSSID aggregate support, WDS aggregation
support); CST/GTT support for carrier sense/TX timeout.
channel when the channel is HT/40.
The new ANI code (primarily for the AR9300/AR9400) in ath9k sets this
register but the ANI code for the previous 11n chips didn't set this.
Unlike ath9k, only set this for HT/40 channels.
Obtained From: ath9k
These describe FCC/Japan channel and DFS behaviour.
The AR9285 and later chips don't set these bits in the eeprom, the correct
behaviour is to just assume all five bits are enabled.
specific.
The Atheros HAL and FreeBSD HAL share the same capabilities up
until HAL_CAP_11D, where things begin to diverge.
I'll look at tidying these up soon.
Obtained from: Atheros
* Add Howl (ar9130) to the list of chips that have DFS/BB/MAC hangs
* Don't treat unknown BB hangs as fatal; ath9k/Atheros HAL don't
treat it as such.
* Add HAL_DEBUG_DFS to the debug fields in ath_hal/ah_debug.h
The BB hang check simply loops over an observation register checking
for a stuck state engine, but it can happen under high traffic
conditions. Ath9k and the Atheros HAL simply log a debug message and
continue.
Private to FreeBSD:
* Add HAL_DEBUG_HANG to the debug fields
* Change the hang debugging to HAL_DEBUG_HANG rather than HAL_DEBUG_DFS
like in the Atheros HAL.
Obtained from: Atheros
For now, these are equivalent macros. AR_SREV_OWL{X}_OR_LATER
will later change to exclude Howl (AR9130) in line with what
the Atheros HAL does.
This should not functionally change anything.
Obtained from: Atheros
A quick story, which is partially documented in the commit.
The silicon revision in Linux ath9k and the Atheros HAL use an
AR_SREV_REVISION mask of 0x07.
FreeBSD's HAL uses the AR5212 AR_SREV_REVISION mask of 0x0F.
Thus the OWL silicon revisions were coming through as 0xA, 0xB,
0xC, rather than 0x0, 0x1 and 0x2.
My ath9k-sourced AR_SREV_OWL_<X> macros were thus using the wrong
silicon revision values and wouldn't correctly match.
This commit does a few things:
* Change the AR_SREV_OWL_<x> macros to use the AR_SREV_REVISION_OWL_*
values, not AR_XSREV_REVISION_OWL macros;
* Disable AR_XSREV_REVISION_OWL_* values;
* Modify the IS_5416 to properly check the MAC is OWL, rather than
potentially matching on non-OWL revisions (which shouldn't happen
unless there's a silicon revision of higher than 0x9 in a later
chip..)
* Add a couple more macros from the Atheros HAL for compatibility.
The main difference now is that the Atheros HAL defines
AR_SREV_OWL_{20,22}_OR_LATER subtly differently - it fails on all HOWL
silicon. The AR_SREV_5416_*_OR_LATER macros match on the relevant OWL
version -and- all HOWL versions, along with subsequent versions.
A subsequent commit is going to migrate the uses of AR_SREV_OWL_X_OR_LATER
to AR_SREV_5416_X_OR_LATER to match what's going on in the Atheros HAL.
There's only two uses of AR_SREV_OWL_X_OR_LATER which currently don't
apply to FreeBSD but it may do in the future.
Yes, it's all confusing!
Quoting the ath9k commit message:
At present the noise floor calibration is processed in supported
control and extension chains rather than required chains.
Unnccesarily doing nfcal in all supported chains leads to
invalid nf readings on extn chains and these invalid values
got updated into history buffer. While loading those values
from history buffer is moving the chip to deaf state.
This issue was observed in AR9002/AR9003 chips while doing
associate/dissociate in HT40 mode and interface up/down
in iterative manner. After some iterations, the chip was moved
to deaf state. Somehow the pci devices are recovered by poll work
after chip reset. Raading the nf values in all supported extension chains
when the hw is not yet configured in HT40 mode results invalid values.
Reference: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/753862/
Obtained from: Linux ath9k
The checks should function as follows:
* AR_SREV_<silicon> : check macVersion matches that version id
* AR_SREV_<silicon>_<revision> : check macVersion and macRevision match
the version / revision respectively
* AR_SREV_<silicon>_<revision>_OR_LATER: check that
+ if the chip silicon version == macVersion, enforce revision >= macRevision
+ if the chip silicon version > macVersion, allow it.
For example, AR_SREV_MERLIN() only matches AR9280 (any revision),
AR_SREV_MERLIN_10() would only match AR9280 version 1.0, but
AR_SREV_MERLIN_20_OR_LATER() matches AR9280 version >= 2.0 _AND_
any subsequent MAC (So AR9285, AR9287, etc.)
The specific fixes which may impact users:
* if there is Merlin hardware > revision 2.0, it'll now be correctly
matched by AR_SREV_MERLIN_20_OR_LATER() - the older code simply
would match on either Merlin 2.0 or a subsequent MAC (AR9285, AR9287, etc.)
* Kite version 1.1/1.2 should now correctly match. As these macros
are used in the AR9285 reset/attach path, and it's assumed that the
hardware is kite anyway, the behaviour shouldn't change. It'll only
change if these macros are used in other codepaths shared with
older silicon.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k, Atheros
The AR9130 is an AR9160/AR5416 family WMAC which is glued directly
to the AR913x SoC peripheral bus (APB) rather than via a PCI/PCIe
bridge.
The specifics:
* A new build option is required to use the AR9130 - AH_SUPPORT_AR9130.
This is needed due to the different location the RTC registers live
with this chip; hopefully this will be undone in the future.
This does currently mean that enabling this option will break non-AR9130
builds, so don't enable it unless you're specifically building an image
for the AR913x SoC.
* Add the new probe, attach, EEPROM and PLL methods specific to Howl.
* Add a work-around to ah_eeprom_v14.c which disables some of the checks
for endian-ness and magic in the EEPROM image if an eepromdata block
is provided. This'll be fixed at a later stage by porting the ath9k
probe code and making sure it doesn't break in other setups (which
my previous attempt at this did.)
* Sprinkle Howl modifications throughput the interrupt path - it doesn't
implement the SYNC interrupt registers, so ignore those.
* Sprinkle Howl chip powerup/down throughout the reset path; the RTC methods
were
* Sprinkle some other Howl workarounds in the reset path.
* Hard-code an alternative setup for the AR_CFG register for Howl, that
sets up things suitable for Big-Endian MIPS (which is the only platform
this chip is glued to.)
This has been tested on the AR913x based TP-Link WR-1043nd mode, in
legacy, HT/20 and HT/40 modes.
Caveats:
* 2ghz has only been tested. I've not seen any 5ghz radios glued to this
chipset so I can't test it.
* AR5416_INTERRUPT_MITIGATION is not supported on the AR9130. At least,
it isn't implemented in ath9k. Please don't enable this.
* This hasn't been tested in MBSS mode or in RX/TX block-aggregation mode.
Writing the TX power registers is the same between all of these chips
and later NICs (AR9287, AR9271 USB, etc.) so this will reduce code
duplication when those NICs are added to the HAL.
spurious (and fatal) interrupt errors.
One user reported seeing this:
Apr 22 18:04:24 ceres kernel: ar5416GetPendingInterrupts: fatal error,
ISR_RAC 0x0 SYNC_CAUSE 0x2000
SYNC_CAUSE of 0x2000 is AR_INTR_SYNC_LOCAL_TIMEOUT which is a bus timeout;
this shouldn't cause HAL_INT_FATAL to be set.
After checking out ath9k, ath9k_ar9002_hw_get_isr() clears (*masked)
before continuing, regardless of whether any bits in the ISR registers
are set. So if AR_INTR_SYNC_CAUSE is set to something that isn't
treated as fatal, and AR_ISR isn't read or is read and is 0, then
(*masked) wouldn't be cleared. Thus any of the existing bits set
that were passed in would be preserved in the output.
The caller in if_ath - ath_intr() - wasn't setting the masked value
to 0 before calling ath_hal_getisr(), so anything that was present
in that uninitialised variable would be preserved in the case above
of AR_ISR=0, AR_INTR_SYNC_CAUSE != 0; and if the HAL_INT_FATAL bit
was set, a fatal condition would be interpreted and the chip was
reset.
This patch does the following:
* ath_intr() - set masked to 0 before calling ath_hal_getisr();
* ar5416GetPendingInterrupts() - clear (*masked) before processing
continues; so if the interrupt source is AR_INTR_SYNC_CAUSE
and it isn't fatal, the hardware isn't reset via returning
HAL_INT_FATAL.
This doesn't fix any underlying errors which trigger
AR_INTR_SYNC_LOCAL_TIMEOUT - which is a bus timeout of some
sort - so that likely should be further investigated.
It's also marked inactive by the initvals, and enabled after
the baseband/PLL has been configured, but before the RF
registers have been programmed.
The origin and reason for this particular change is currently unknown.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k
Antenna diversity on the >= AR5416 is implemented differently than the
AR5212 and previous chips. So for now, and not to confuse things, just
disable it for now.
diversity.
This is bit dirty and likely should be revised at a later date,
with an eye to unifying/tidying up the whole diversity setup
and allowing developers to do "tricky stuff" as they desire.
For now, this works.
* add a new method, specifically for doing per-RX packet
antenna diversity
* set that HAL method only if it's Kite and a Kite chip that
does diversity.
* add a diversity flag to the HAL debugging section
* add a check to make sure the kite diversity code doesn't run
on boards that don't require it, as not all Kite chips will
implement it.
* add some debug statements when the diversity code makes
changes to the antenna diversity/combining setup.
Note: this HAL currently only supports the AR9285.
From Linux ath9k:
The problem is that when the attenuation is increased,
the rate will start to drop from MCS7 -> MCS6, and finally
will see MCS1 -> CCK_11Mbps. When the rate is changed b/w
CCK and OFDM, it will use register desired_scale to calculate
how much tx gain need to change.
The output power with the same tx gain for CCK and OFDM modulated
signals are different. This difference is constant for AR9280
but not AR9285/AR9271. It has different PA architecture
a constant. So it should be calibrated against this PA
characteristic.
The driver has to read the calibrated values from EEPROM and set
the tx power registers accordingly.
ctl/ext noise floor values.
This routine doesn't check to see whether the radio is MIMO
capable - instead, it simply returns either the raw values,
the "nominal" values if the raw values aren't yet available
or are invalid, or '0' values if there's no valid channel/
no valid MIMO values.
Callers are expected to verify the radio is a MIMO radio
(which for now means it's an 11n chipset, there are non-11n
MIMO chipsets out there but I don't think we support them,
at least in MIMO mode) before exporting the MIMO values.
upper-level HAL.
Right now the per-chain noise floor values aren't used anywhere in
the upper-level HAL, so the driver currently has no real reference
to compare the per-chain RSSI values to.
This is needed before per-chain RSSI values (for ctl and ext radios)
are can be thrown upstairs to the net80211 code.
From the ath9k source:
==
11N: we can no longer afford to self link the last descriptor.
MAC acknowledges BA status as long as it copies frames to host
buffer (or rx fifo). This can incorrectly acknowledge packets
to a sender if last desc is self-linked.
==
Since this is useful for pre-AR5416 chips that communicate PHY errors
via error frames rather than by on-chip counters, leave the support
in there, but disable it for AR5416 and later.
Introduce the AHB glue for Atheros embedded systems. Right now it's
hard-coded for the AR9130 chip whose support isn't yet in this HAL;
it'll be added in a subsequent commit.
Kernel configuration files now need both 'ath' and 'ath_pci' devices; both
modules need to be loaded for the ath device to work.
in the RX path when doing 11n and block-ack'ed frames. Apparently, the MAC
will loop over that self-linked descriptor and treat it as "good enough"
for (incorrectly!) ACKing the frames in the block-ack.
Until I figure out how to work around this issue in the future, this counter
will tell me if packet RX processing ever gets to the point where it's
touching the self-linked descriptor. If there's ever enough packets to get
to that point, BA's will be invalid and likely very unhappy.
I'll clear how it's supposed to work with Bernhard and then look
at enabling this in the correct situations.
But this -does- enable HT RTS protection (using the appropriate legacy
rates) if this bit of code is enabled.
by default.
Adventourous souls with an AR9220/AR9280 or later and who have a device
that sends PS-POLL frames may wish to try tinkering with this option and
get back to me.
Linux ath9k only enables this for AR9280 and later NICs; so
create a capability for it so it isn't enabled for earlier
NICs.
Enabling hardware PS-POLL support will come in a later commit
and will be disabled by default.
Even though they map to setting the error filter register,
ath9k also writes them untouched to AR_RX_FILTER.
The Force-BSSID match bit can stay high, as it maps to a
misc mode register setting rather than an RX filter bit.
The phyerr, radar and bssid-match bits aren't real bits, they map
to enabling bits in other registers. Move those out of the way of
valid RX filter bits.
Add a few new fields from ath9k - compba, ps-poll, mcast-bcast-all.
the channel width is ni->ni_chw, which is set to the negotiated channel
width. ni->ni_htflags is the capability, rather than the negotiated
value.
Teach both the TX path and the sample rate module about this.
This seems to work fine for STA but not HT/20 AP mode.
Further discussion with net80211 people will need to take place
to ensure that the right flags are set based on the negotiated
capabilities of the remote peer, rather than whatever the local
parameters are.
Sending short-gi frames in 20mhz may work on some chips but
it certainly isn't supported on anything currently supported
by the HAL; and sending HT40 frames in HT20 mode just plain
won't work.
settings, it seems that our defines are backwards and don't match what
is in the EEPROM documentation or internal driver.
The ath9k code used to have a bitfield here, rather than a uint8_t, and
there were #defines used to swap the order based on the endian of the
platform - this wasn't because of nybble or bit ordering of the
underlying host but because of what the compiler was doing.
This may be the reason for the backwards field numbers, as ath9k had
similar issues.
the AR9285 so I'll leave it off for that.
Ath9k sources indiciate that one of the ANI modes interferes with
RIFS detection, so match ath9k and disable that.
* The existing interrupt mitigation code didn't mitigate anything - the
per-packet TX/RX interrupts are still occuring. It's possible this
worked for the AR5416 but not any later chipsets; I'll investigate and
update as needed.
* Set both the RX and TX threshold registers whilst I'm at it.
This is verified to work on the AR9220 and AR9160. I'm leaving it off
by default in case it's truely broken, but I need to have it enabled
when doing 11n testing or interrupt loads exceed 10,000 interrupts/sec.
At least one AR5416 user has reported measurable throughput drops
with this option. For now, disable it and make it a run-time
twiddle. It won't take affect until the next radio programming
trip though (eg channel scan, channel change.)
so there's no need to enable the RX of invalid frames just to do ANI.
The if_ath code and AR5212 ANI code setup the RX filter bits to enable
receiving OFDM/CCK errors if the device doesn't have the hardware
MIB counters. It isn't initialising it for the AR5416+ because all of
those chips have hardware MIB counters.
This fixes the odd (and performance affecting!) situation where if ani
is enabled (via sysctl dev.ath.X.intmit) then suddenly there's be a very
large volume of phy errors - which is good to track, but not what was
intended. Since each PHY error is a received (0 length) frame, it can
significantly tie up the RX side of things.
