Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless cards.
This driver requires microcode which is available in FreeBSD ports:
net/urtwn-firmware-kmod.
Hiren ported the urtwn(4) man page from OpenBSD and Glen just commited a port
for the firmware.
TODO:
- 802.11n support
- Stability fixes - the driver can sustain lots of traffic but has trouble
coping with simultaneous iperf sessions.
- fix debugging
MFC after: 2 months
Tested by: kevlo, hiren, gjb
1) Only multi-TD isochronous transfers should use NORMAL
type after specific type as per XHCI specification.
2) BEI bit is only available in NORMAL and ISOCHRONOUS
TRB types. Don't use this bit for other types to avoid
hardware asserts. Reserved bits should be don't care
though ...
MFC after: 1 week
PR: usb/179342
the regular interrupt handler is not working properly or
in case of MSI interrupts which are not yet supported.
Remove interrupt setup code for FreeBSD versions older
than 700031.
MFC after: 1 week
PR: usb/179342
for the WB195 combo NIC - an AR9285 w/ an AR3011 USB bluetooth NIC.
The AR3011 is wired up using a 3-wire coexistence scheme to the AR9285.
The code in if_ath_btcoex.c sets up the initial hardware mapping
and coexistence configuration. There's nothing special about it -
it's static; it doesn't try to configure bluetooth / MAC traffic priorities
or try to figure out what's actually going on. It's enough to stop basic
bluetooth traffic from causing traffic stalls and diassociation from
the wireless network.
To use this code, you must have the above NIC. No, it won't work
for the AR9287+AR3012, nor the AR9485, AR9462 or AR955x combo cards.
Then you set a kernel hint before boot or before kldload, where 'X'
is the unit number of your AR9285 NIC:
# kenv hint.ath.X.btcoex_profile=wb195
This will then appear in your boot messages:
[100482] athX: Enabling WB195 BTCOEX
This code is going to evolve pretty quickly (well, depending upon my
spare time) so don't assume the btcoex API is going to stay stable.
In order to use the bluetooth side, you must also load in firmware using
ath3kfw and the binary firmware file (ath3k-1.fw in my case.)
Tested:
* AR9280, no interference
* WB195 - AR9285 + AR3011 combo; STA mode; basic bluetooth inquiries
were enough to cause traffic stalls and disassociations. This has
stopped with the btcoex profile code.
TODO:
* Importantly - the AR9285 needs ASPM disabled if bluetooth coexistence
is enabled. No, I don't know why. It's likely some kind of bug to do
with the AR3011 sending bluetooth coexistence signals whilst the device
is asleep. Since we don't actually sleep the MAC just yet, it shouldn't
be a problem. That said, to be totally correct:
+ ASPM should be disabled - upon attach and wakeup
+ The PCIe powersave HAL code should never be called
Look at what the ath9k driver does for inspiration.
* Add WB197 (AR9287+AR3012) support
* Add support for the AR9485, which is another combo like the AR9285
* The later NICs have a different signaling mechanism between the MAC
and the bluetooth device; I haven't even begun to experiment with
making that HAL code work. But it should be a lot more automatic.
* The hardware can do much more interesting traffic weighting with
bluetooth and wifi traffic. None of this is currently used.
Ideally someone would code up something to watch the bluetooth traffic
GPIO (via an interrupt) and then watch it go high/low; then figure out
what the bluetooth traffic is and adjust things appropriately.
* If I get the time I may add in some code to at least track this stuff
and expose statistics. But it's up to someone else to experiment with
the bluetooth coexistence support and add the interesting stuff (like
"real" detection of bulk, audio, etc bluetooth traffic patterns and
change wifi parameters appropriately - eg, maximum aggregate length,
transmit power, using quiet time to control TX duty cycle, etc.)
* 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.
implemented as a 10 bits linear feedback shift register so only
lower 10 bits are valid.
Because this register is used to initialize random backoff interval
register only when resolved duplex is half-duplex, it wouldn't have
caused issues in these days.
Submitted by: Masanobu SAITOH <msaitoh@NetBSD.org>
Reporting link status in driver has a side-effect that makes mii(4)
check current link status. mii(4) will call link status change
callback when it sees link state change. Normally this wouldn't
have problems. However, ASF/IPMI firmware can actively access PHY
regardless of driver's running state such that reporting link
status for not-running interface can generate meaningless link
UP/DOWN messages.
This change also makes dhclient think driver got a valid link
regardless of link establishment so it will bypass dhclient's
initial link status check. I think that wouldn't be issue
though.
Tested by: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Now that I understand what's going on - and the RX antenna array maps
to what the receive LNA configuration actually is - I feel comfortable
in enabling this.
If people do have issues with this, there's enough debugging now available
that we have a chance to diagnose it without writing it up as 'weird
crap.'
Tested:
* AR9285 STA w/ diversity combining enabled in EEPROM
TODO:
* (More) testing in hostap mode
and controlling this form of antenna diversity) - print out the AR9285
antenna diversity configuration at attach time.
This will help track down and diagose if/when people have connectivity
issues on cards (eg if they connect a single antenna to LNA1, yet the
card has RX configured to only occur on LNA2.)
Tested:
* AR9285 w/ antenna diversity enabled in EEPROM;
* AR9285 w/ antenna diversity disabled in EEPROM; mapping only to a
single antenna (LNA1.)
from each batch flowing on the VALE switch
- feature: add glue for 'indirect' buffers on the sender side:
if a slot has NS_INDIRECT set, the netmap buffer contains pointer(s)
to the actual userspace buffers, which are accessed with copyin().
The feature is not finalised yet, as it will likely need to deal
with some iovec variant for proper scatter/gather support.
This will save one copy for clients (e.g. qemu) that cannot
use the netmap buffer directly.
A curiosity: on amd64 copyin() appears to be 10-15% faster than pkt_copy()
or bcopy() at least for sizes of 256 and greater.
the RX antenna field.
The AR9285/AR9485 use an LNA mixer to determine how to combine the signals
from the two antennas. This is encoded in the RSSI fields (ctl/ext) for
chain 2. So, let's use that here.
This maps RX antennas 0->3 to the RX mixer configuration used to
receive a frame. There's more that can be done but this is good enough
to diagnose if the hardware is doing "odd" things like trying to
receive frames on LNA2 (ie, antenna 2 or "alt" antenna) when there's
only one antenna connected.
Tested:
* AR9285, STA mode
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
sys/dev/mps/mps_user.c
Fix uninitialized memory reference in mps_read_config_page. It was
referencing a field (params->hdr.Ext.ExtPageType) that would only be
set when reading an Extended config page. The symptom was that
MPSIO_READ_CFG_PAGE ioctls would randomly fail with
MPI2_IOCSTATUS_CONFIG_INVALID_PAGE errors. The solution is to
determine whether an extended or an ordinary config page is requested
by looking at the PageType field, which should be available regardless.
Similarly, mps_user_read_extcfg_header and mps_user_read_extcfg_page,
which call mps_read_config_page, had to be fixed to always set the
PageType field. They were implicitly assuming that
mps_read_config_page always operated on Extended pages.
Reviewed by: ken
Approved by: ken (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
* Grab the reset lock first, so any subsequent interrupt, TX, RX work
will fail
* Then shut down interrupts
* Then wait for TX/RX to finish running
At this point no further work will be running, so it's safe to do the
reset path code.
PR: kern/179232
The main problem here is that fast and driver RX diversity isn't actually
configured; I need to figure out why that is. That said, this makes
the single-antenna connected AR9285 and AR2427 (AR9285 w/ no 11n) work
correctly.
PR: kern/179269
Xen host side can handle after defragmentation.
This prevents the driver from throwing away too long TSO chains and
improves the performance on Amazon AWS instances with 10GigE virtual
interfaces to the normally expected throughput.
Submitted by: cperciva (earlier version)
Reviewed by: cperciva
Tested by: cperciva
MFC after: 1 week
Remove local, and incorrect, definition for the value of an invalid
grant reference.
Extract ring cleanup code into xbd_free_ring() function for
symetry with xbd_alloc_ring(). This process also eliminated
an initialized but unused variable.
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
MFC after: 1 week
o Group functions by by their functionality.
o Remove superfluous declarations.
o Remove more unused (#ifdef'd out) code.
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
o This driver is the "xbd" driver, not the "blkfront", "blkif", "xbf", or
"xb" driver. Use the "xbd_" naming conventions for all functions,
structures, and constants.
o The prevailing convention for structure fields in this driver is to
prefix them with an abreviation of the structure type. Update
"recently added" fields to match this style.
o Remove unused data structures.
o Remove superfluous casts.
o Make a pass over the whole driver and bring it closer to
style(9) conformance.
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
MFC after: 1 week
