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.
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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
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.
