History log of /freebsd-9.3-release/sys/dev/ath/
Revision Date Author Comments
267654 20-Jun-2014 gjb

Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


263447 20-Mar-2014 dim

MFC r243164 (by adrian):

I'm not sure why ah_desc.h was required here, but it doesn't _need_
to be. So, just toss it.

There's no options or ah_desc fields in here.

Whilst I'm here, fix up the #ifdef and #define to mach.


249132 05-Apr-2013 mav

MFC r227293 (by ed):
Mark MALLOC_DEFINEs static that have no corresponding MALLOC_DECLAREs.

This means that their use is restricted to a single C file.


248085 09-Mar-2013 marius

MFC: r227309 (partial)

Mark all SYSCTL_NODEs static that have no corresponding SYSCTL_DECLs.

The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.


248078 09-Mar-2013 marius

MFC: r243857 (partial)

Mechanically substitute flags from historic mbuf allocator with
malloc(9) flags in sys/dev.


246069 29-Jan-2013 pfg

Clean some 'svn:executable' properties in the tree.

Submitted by: Christoph Mallon

While here, merge some other mergeinfo properties that
were left behind from my commits

/head/include:r241008,241141,241181
/head/contrib/gcc:r244776,244792
/head/cddl:r238457,238509,238558


245449 15-Jan-2013 dim

Revert the MFC to sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar9002/ar9285_attach.c again,
since it does not compile on stable/9. During testing, I had a
different local fix, so I failed to notice this did not work. Apologies
for the breakage.

Pointy hat to: dim


245429 14-Jan-2013 dim

Partial MFC of r234508 (by adrian):

"Upgrade" the AR9285 code to support PCI/ART EEPROM on flash.

I've just verified that this boots on an Atheros AP91. I haven't verified
it with traffic though, so YMMV.

(This is a prerequisite for the coming clang 3.2 upgrade.)


243261 19-Nov-2012 adrian

Merge r227468: Don't fondle this particular CCA register from extension channel.


242908 12-Nov-2012 dim

MFC r242625:

Remove duplicate const specifiers in many drivers (I hope I got all of
them, please let me know if not). Most of these are of the form:

static const struct bzzt_type {
[...list of members...]
} const bzzt_devs[] = {
[...list of initializers...]
};

The second const is unnecessary, as arrays cannot be modified anyway,
and if the elements are const, the whole thing is const automatically
(e.g. it is placed in .rodata).

I have verified this does not change the binary output of a full kernel
build (except for build timestamps embedded in the object files).

Reviewed by: yongari, marius


235743 21-May-2012 jhb

Toss bogus mergeinfo.


235738 21-May-2012 sbruno

MFC r235634

Fix and update battery status bits according to linux driver


234753 28-Apr-2012 dim

MFC r225941:
Fix an unaligned access issue; tidy up OFDM/DS rate decoding from the PLCP.

This fixes a panic on PPC.

Submitted by: novel
Obtained from: OpenBSD, sys/dev/ic/bwi.c r1.89

MFC r226181:
Update from OpenBSD: Include 0x4402 in the bbp id mapping table used on older devices.

http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/BackPlane agrees.

Obtained from: OpenBSD, sys/dev/ic/bwi.c r1.88

MFC r226182:
Fix an incorrect use of sizeof().

Obtained from: OpenBSD sys/dev/ic/bwi.c r1.87

MFC r228621:
Fix some net80211 enum nits:
- ic_vap_create() uses an ieee80211_opmode argument
- ieee80211_rate2media() takes an ieee80211_phymode argument
- ieee80211_plcp2rate() takes an ieee80211_phytype argument
- cast to enum ieee80211_protmode and ieee80211_roamingmode to silence
compiler warnings

Submitted by: arundel@


232786 10-Mar-2012 gavin

Merge r232250 from head:

Correct capitalization of "Hz" in user-visible text (manpages, printf(),
etc).


229740 06-Jan-2012 dim

MFC r228817:

Use the correct types when calling the decompression mask function.

There's currently no public code which uses this feature and the
current reference driver doesn't enable this feature at all.
It's possible it was used by a previous version of the driver and
that indeed it should return HAL_STATUS; but at this point I'm
happy to require that they complain and submit a patch.

This was found by LLVM compile-time type checking.


229733 06-Jan-2012 dim

MFC r228980:

Reapply r228785 now it has been tested by Adrian. Also add comments
with the old AR_SCR_SLE_XXX values, with a short explanation why they
were changed.

Reviewed by: adrian


229461 04-Jan-2012 eadler

MFC r227458, r226436:

- change "is is" to "is" or "it is"
- change "the the" to "the"
- other typo fixes

Approved by: lstewart


225736 23-Sep-2011 kensmith

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)


225473 11-Sep-2011 adrian

Fix the order of parameters passed to the HT frame duration calculation.

Approved by: re (kib)


225444 08-Sep-2011 adrian

Update the TSF and next-TBTT methods to work for the AR5416 and later NICs.
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)


225431 07-Sep-2011 adrian

Add a definition for ASYNC_CAUSE_CLR. It's not used yet, but the
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)


225421 06-Sep-2011 adrian

Fix 5ghz calibration logic when using AR9280 w/ fast clock.

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)


225420 06-Sep-2011 adrian

Fix the addac serial load register write for AR5416.

Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
Approved by: re (kib)


225145 24-Aug-2011 adrian

Fix a missing initialisation of bt_flags when setting up the TDMA beacon.

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)


225125 24-Aug-2011 adrian

TIM/Timer fixes for AR5416 and later:

* 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)


225111 23-Aug-2011 adrian

These timer registers are all 1uS in resolution in AR5416
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)


224734 09-Aug-2011 adrian

Remove the now unneeded references to these DFS methods.

Sorry for the noise everyone.

Approved by: re (kib, blanket)


224724 09-Aug-2011 adrian

Remove this call, now that I've solved the radar module problem without
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)


224720 08-Aug-2011 adrian

And add another missing brace. Another pointy hat moment.
This one however isn't used by any public code yet, so it
didn't break the build.

Approved by: re (kib, blanket)


224719 08-Aug-2011 adrian

Bitten again by the optional HALDEBUG compilation.

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


224718 08-Aug-2011 adrian

The older HAL code sets up the regulatory domain once; FreeBSD/net80211
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)


224716 08-Aug-2011 adrian

Introduce some more DFS related hooks, inspired both by local work
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)


224715 08-Aug-2011 adrian

.. and add a missing bracket.

Approved by: re (kib, blanket)


224714 08-Aug-2011 adrian

Fix method naming to match the reference HAL definition.

Obtained from: Atheros
Approved by: re (kib, blanket)


224709 08-Aug-2011 adrian

Add another HAL method - ah_isFastClockEnabled - which returns AH_TRUE
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)


224644 04-Aug-2011 adrian

Undo this for now. It's "right", but it means everything will rely on
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@


224634 03-Aug-2011 adrian

Add in a dirty hack that allows for AR9280/AR9285/AR9287 embedded
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)


224633 03-Aug-2011 adrian

* Fix a clash in structure naming which occurs with (closed source)
radar detection code. This is just to make porting the atheros
radar code easier.

* add a missing space.

Approved by: re (kib, blanket)


224624 03-Aug-2011 adrian

Remove the EEPROM minor >= 19 check for txgaintype; that's only needed for
Merlin / v14 eeprom formats.

Approved by: re (kib, blanket)


224588 02-Aug-2011 adrian

Fix a corner case in RXEOL handling which was likely introduced by yours
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)


224550 31-Jul-2011 adrian

Disable the RXORN/RXEOL interrupts if RXEOL occurs, preventing an
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)


224542 31-Jul-2011 adrian

Remove two debugging printf()s which snuck in during the testing of the
last commit.

Approved by: re (kib)
Pointy-hat-to: adrian@


224541 31-Jul-2011 adrian

Implement the 4KB split transaction workaround for Merlin (AR9280).

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)


224540 31-Jul-2011 adrian

Fix typo!

Approved by: re (kib)


224539 31-Jul-2011 adrian

Add extra flags for the radar event API.
(They're not used by any public code at the current time.)

Approved by: re (kib)


224538 31-Jul-2011 adrian

Add some more phyerr bits.

Obtained from: Atheros
Approved by: re (kib)


224520 30-Jul-2011 adrian

Fix incorrect error reporting during the dfs ioctl function.

Approved by: re (kib)


224519 30-Jul-2011 adrian

Introduce the FRAC_5G EEPROM parameter.

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)


224518 30-Jul-2011 adrian

Prepare for embedded use of the AR9285/AR9287.

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)


224517 30-Jul-2011 adrian

Fix AR5416 radar parameter initialisation.

* 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)


224515 30-Jul-2011 adrian

Fix the initial calibration sample count when doing ADC calibrations.

Obtained from: Atheros
Approved by: re (kib)


224514 30-Jul-2011 adrian

Fix ANI handling to work correctly when (trying) to receive radar errors.

* 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)


224512 30-Jul-2011 adrian

Bring over AR5416 specific RX filter get/set routines.

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)


224510 30-Jul-2011 adrian

I noticed that the Merlin NICs I had (AR9220, AR9280) never completed
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)


224509 30-Jul-2011 adrian

Fix the AR9280 initial AGC calibration code.

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)


224502 30-Jul-2011 adrian

Reset the NIC if ANI is enabled or disabled.

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)


224267 22-Jul-2011 adrian

Implement a basic radar parameter API in the dfs_null module.

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)


224245 21-Jul-2011 adrian

This links in the ath dfs ioctl into the driver and defines the
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)


224244 21-Jul-2011 adrian

Modify the radar API a little to be easier to "change" via run-time
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)


224243 21-Jul-2011 adrian

Break out the PLL setup into (mostly) per-chip methods, rather than
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)


224242 21-Jul-2011 adrian

This re-enables HT40 channels for use when DFS is enabled.

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)


224226 20-Jul-2011 adrian

These two are ath_hal regulatory domain updates from the Atheros
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)


224045 14-Jul-2011 adrian

Add a missing check for the global ath_hal_debug.

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.)


223671 29-Jun-2011 adrian

Fix a corner case in STA beacon processing when a CSA is received but
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.


223615 28-Jun-2011 adrian

Make sure the extended regdomain word is initialised.

As with the AR9285, the AR9287 has a default word of 0x1F which means
all the various bits in that field are set on by default.


223568 26-Jun-2011 adrian

Fix beacon transmission after a channel set.

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.


223567 26-Jun-2011 adrian

Add ATH_ENABLE_DFS which enables the DFS flag so the DFS code
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.


223525 25-Jun-2011 adrian

Commit missing piece from a couple days ago - re-add ath_hal_debug.


223524 25-Jun-2011 adrian

Small fix to bring the non-debug definitions of HALDEBUG/HALDEBUG_G in line
with the debug definitions.


223474 23-Jun-2011 adrian

add missing #define for the non-debug case.


223466 23-Jun-2011 adrian

Re-introduce a global ath_hal_debug again for now, whilst I figure out what
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.


223465 23-Jun-2011 adrian

Fix indenting issues introduced by the previous commit.


223459 23-Jun-2011 adrian

Break out most of the HAL related tweaks into a per-HAL instance,
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


223032 13-Jun-2011 adrian

Fix ath_ahb(4) bus attach and eeprom error handling.

Submitted by: Luiz Otavio O Souza <loos.br@gmail.com>


222821 07-Jun-2011 adrian

Since HAL_PHYERR_* is used in the radar code, always include ah_desc.h.


222815 07-Jun-2011 adrian

Flesh out a new HAL method to fetch the radar PHY error frame information.

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


222707 05-Jun-2011 adrian

Add a missing call to sync the DMAed buffer before the radar event data is extracted.


222672 04-Jun-2011 adrian

Commit radar detection changes missed by my previous commit.


222668 04-Jun-2011 adrian

A few changes to make radar detection implementable in a hal_dfs/
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.


222644 03-Jun-2011 adrian

Bring over the relevant registers to use when implementing the quiet time
portion of 802.11h.

The AR5212 code has been brought over as a reference, it's currently
untested.

Obtained from: Atheros


222585 01-Jun-2011 adrian

Flesh out the radar detection related operations for the ath driver.

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


222584 01-Jun-2011 adrian

Add some missing DFS chipset functionality to the FreeBSD HAL.

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


222498 30-May-2011 adrian

Enable setting the short-GI bit when TX'ing HT rates but only if the
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.


222497 30-May-2011 adrian

Set default A-MPDU density/size.


222432 29-May-2011 adrian

Teach if_ath about devices which have short-GI in 20MHz channel modes.

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.


222424 28-May-2011 adrian

Fix AR9287 operation when >1 TX chain is enabled.

I didn't pick this up with the initial commit because I was only testing
with 11bg.


222324 26-May-2011 adrian

Fix a macro name - it's currently unused in this file however, but
keep it consistent with ar9280.c.


222323 26-May-2011 adrian

Revert this erroneous commit and re-disable the AR9285 combined antenna
diversity.


222316 26-May-2011 adrian

Remove the three-chain scaled power check for the AR9287 - it isn't
needed.


222315 26-May-2011 adrian

Make sure only two chains are calibrated for the AR9287.


222314 26-May-2011 adrian

Add some open-loop TX power debugging for AR9287.


222312 26-May-2011 adrian

Bring over the AR5416 per-rate TX power code, modified to use the
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.


222310 26-May-2011 adrian

Flesh out ar9287SetTransmitPower() based on the AR9285 routine.

Hard-code the per-rate TX power at 5dBm for now so testing can be done.

This passes initial TX testing in 11g mode (but, obviously, at 5dBm.)


222308 26-May-2011 adrian

Flesh out the TX power calibration for the AR9287.

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


222305 26-May-2011 adrian

Add the AR9287 chip identification string.


222303 26-May-2011 adrian

Fix a bad merge from a previous commit.


222302 26-May-2011 adrian

Merlin -> Kiwi


222301 26-May-2011 adrian

Bring over my AR9287 work in progress.

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


222300 26-May-2011 adrian

AR9287 prep work:

* Add PCI/PCIE devids
* Add AR9287/Kiwi version check macros
* AR_SREV_9287 -> AR_SREV_KIWI

Obtained from: Atheros, ath9k


222299 26-May-2011 adrian

Add temp sense to the EEPROM variable list;
Export the temperature sense variables to ah_eeprom_9287.c


222277 25-May-2011 adrian

The current ANI capability information uses a different set of
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.


222276 25-May-2011 adrian

Tidy up the ANI API in preparation for looking to expose some more
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.


222265 24-May-2011 adrian

The ANI control for the AR5416 and later chips was calling ar5212AniControl(),
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.


222241 24-May-2011 adrian

Use the new per-series antenna and TPC definitions when setting ctl8->11.

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.)


222240 24-May-2011 adrian

Add in descriptions for TX descriptor fields ctl8-11 - these fields
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.


222157 21-May-2011 adrian

The Merlin analog register bank is from 0x7800 -> 0x78fc; fix the code
to reflect this.


222054 18-May-2011 adrian

This isn't needed any longer, it's defined in ah_internal.h.


222049 18-May-2011 adrian

Modify the sample rate control algorithm to only select/sample HT
rates for HT nodes.


222031 17-May-2011 adrian

Fix the debugging code path to correctly support HAL_DEBUG_UNMASKABLE.


222027 17-May-2011 adrian

Fix case, introduced in my previous commit.

Pointy hat goes to: adrian, for having multiple build screens
open and checking the wrong one.


222021 17-May-2011 adrian

Use the halMcastKeySrchSupport capability bit to selectively enable/disable
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.


222020 17-May-2011 adrian

Set this HAL capabilities flag correctly even though it isn't currently
being used.


221965 15-May-2011 adrian

* Add some more TX descriptor error counters; this'll be helpful when
implementing TX aggregation
* Whilst I'm there, comment some RX error counters


221944 15-May-2011 adrian

Fix NF calibration breakage introduced by me in a past commit.

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.


221897 14-May-2011 adrian

Fix the Merlin 5ghz fast-clock EEPROM fetch to return the correct value.

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>


221896 14-May-2011 adrian

Fix the eeprom set API method to return HAL_STATUS.

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>


221888 14-May-2011 adrian

Import initial EEPROM code for Kite (AR9287).

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


221878 14-May-2011 adrian

When disabling RIFS for Sowl (AR9160) and Howl (AR9130), make sure RIFS
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


221876 14-May-2011 adrian

Major fix: when doing open-loop TX power calibration, adjust
the correct CCK rates rather than adjusting the first handful.
This may have affected some AR9280 based NICs.

Minor fix: merlin check update


221875 14-May-2011 adrian

Fixes from the Atheros HAL - formatting; update Merlin checks to be consistent.
Nothing functional should change with this commit.


221869 14-May-2011 attilio

Disconnect sun4v architecture from the three.

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


221868 14-May-2011 adrian

Even though initial calibrations aren't done (yet), add this so we're
consistent with the Atheros HAL.


221837 13-May-2011 adrian

Only do open loop power control and temperature compensation
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.


221834 13-May-2011 adrian

Remove duplicate code - add a function which calculates the ratesArray[]
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.


221833 13-May-2011 adrian

Some diversity changes relating to AR9285.

* 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.


221811 12-May-2011 adrian

Now that the devices with functioning ps-poll hardware support have
been enumerated (merlin and later), flick this on.


221806 12-May-2011 adrian

Break out the AR9285 analog registers from ar5416/ar5416phy.h and put
them in a new header file, ar9002/ar9285_an.h.

Shuffle the AR9280 analog registers in ar5416/ar541phy.h into a contiguous
spot.


221801 12-May-2011 adrian

Fix the half/quater rate PLL setup for AR5416, AR9160 and
(beta?) AR9280 chips.

Note: This doesn't "fix" half/quarter rate support for these
chips; it merely fixes an oversight.

Obtained from: Atheros


221800 12-May-2011 adrian

Fixes from Atheros:

* If AR9130, give the chip extra time to reset
* If AR5416, don't shutdown the chip during reset


221779 11-May-2011 adrian

Make the NF calibration logic (hopefully!) more resistive to noisy
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


221778 11-May-2011 adrian

Always log if the NF CCA load fails; so users with debugging enabled
can see they're likely in a very noisy environment.


221777 11-May-2011 adrian

Make sure the chip is awake before writing to it to finally detach
it.

Obtained from: Atheros


221776 11-May-2011 adrian

Add a new flag - HAL_DEBUG_UNMASKABLE - which always logs a debug message
(when debug is enabled) no matter what.


221775 11-May-2011 adrian

Remove unused variable


221773 11-May-2011 adrian

Remove the initial NF completion check.

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.


221772 11-May-2011 adrian

Remove a now unneeded comment..


221766 11-May-2011 adrian

Restore the RSSI threshold after writing the board values.

This would be overwritten by the board initvals written in ah->writeIni().


221722 10-May-2011 adrian

AR9285 (Kite) fixes.

* 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


221702 09-May-2011 adrian

Disable diversity combining support until I can get a firm answer
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.


221701 09-May-2011 adrian

Fix a regression I introduced - only swap analog chains if the RX chainmask
is 0x5.


221700 09-May-2011 adrian

Disable TX STBC - it isn't used for now, but it isn't supported on Kite.


221694 09-May-2011 adrian

Import some initial Kite fixed diversity code from Atheros.

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


221693 09-May-2011 adrian

Remove an un-needed PA cal call here.


221667 08-May-2011 adrian

Fix the 5ghz fast clock logic.

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.


221666 08-May-2011 adrian

* Add AR_SREV_KITE macro for later use
* 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.)


221622 08-May-2011 adrian

These EEPROM bits actually defined whether HT/20 and HT/40 support
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.


221620 08-May-2011 adrian

Fiddle with the PLL initialisation order to match ath9k/Atheros HAL.

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


221618 08-May-2011 adrian

Properly indent the WAR code i pasted in from ath9k a few months
ago.


221617 08-May-2011 adrian

* Add in a comment about ar5416InitUserSettings() potentially
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.


221616 08-May-2011 adrian

Fiddle with the AR5416 1.0 chainmask setup.

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


221608 07-May-2011 adrian

Fix the IS_5416 checks to actually work correctly.

I've verified that my AR5416 revision 2.2 (minor revision 0x0A) now
matches the correct checks.


221603 07-May-2011 adrian

Do a HAL capabilities sync pass based on the Atheros HAL.

* 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.


221600 07-May-2011 adrian

Update the ext channel cycpwr threshold 1 register for the extension
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


221596 07-May-2011 adrian

Read in the extended regulatory domain flags so future code can use them.

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.


221582 07-May-2011 adrian

Instead of returning an unknown mac/bb signature, just return 0.


221581 07-May-2011 adrian

Add some comments about which HAL capabilities are currently FreeBSD
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


221580 07-May-2011 adrian

Some BB hang changes:

* 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


221574 07-May-2011 adrian

Change AR_SREV_OWL_{X}_OR_LATER to AR_SREV_5416_{X}_OR_LATER.

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


221573 07-May-2011 adrian

Fix the OWL revision checks.

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!


221535 06-May-2011 adrian

Add a function which enables or disables RX RIFS searching, and migrate
the code which does this into it.


221488 05-May-2011 adrian

Don't perform NF calibration for radio chains which aren't in use:

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


221483 05-May-2011 adrian

Another Howl (AR9130) fix.

I haven't seen a 5ghz AR9130 based board yet though!

Obtained from: Atheros


221480 05-May-2011 adrian

Fix up the chipset checks for the AR5416 and later silicon.

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


221479 05-May-2011 adrian

Import some HOWL (AR9130) related fixes from Atheros.

Obtained from: Atheros


221427 04-May-2011 adrian

Remove this useless bit of code for Kite. The RIFS register value is overriden
by the initvals, so disabling RIFS before calling writeIni() effectively does
nothing.


221210 29-Apr-2011 adrian

Cosmetic changes to fit 80 character screen width.


221206 29-Apr-2011 adrian

Remove some holdovers from the AR5212 origin of this code.
These aren't relevant here.


221163 28-Apr-2011 adrian

Introduce AR9130 (HOWL) WMAC support to the FreeBSD HAL.

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.


221019 25-Apr-2011 adrian

Wrap the MIMO stuff in #ifdef AH_SUPPORT_AR5416, as the channel
state doesn't have MIMO stuff in it by default.


220990 24-Apr-2011 adrian

Break out the PLL setup into an overridable method.

The only method right now is ar5416InitPLL() which handles multiple
chipsets; this can now be overridden by newer chipset HAL code.


220989 24-Apr-2011 adrian

Use the refactored ar5416WriteTxPowerRateRegisters() call in the ar9285 code.


220988 24-Apr-2011 adrian

Eliminate code duplication between AR5416/AR9160/AR9280 and AR9285.

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.


220966 23-Apr-2011 adrian

Fix a corner-case of interrupt handling which resulted in potentially
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.


220955 22-Apr-2011 adrian

Fix the merlin LNA configuration code - these are bit flags, not raw values to be
written into the registers.


220947 22-Apr-2011 adrian

The second regdomain word is a set of bitflags describing
regulatory domain behaviour. Document what the v14 EEPROM
flags are.


220946 22-Apr-2011 adrian

Bring over a pdadc calibration fix from ath9k - unused power detector
gain values should be 58, not the previous values.

Obtained From: linux ath9k


220784 18-Apr-2011 adrian

For now, only enable GTT. CST is firing very frequently during local tests;
I'll figure out what's going on before re-enabling this as it does add
to the interrupt load.


220782 18-Apr-2011 adrian

Add TX carrier sense timeout statistics.


220780 18-Apr-2011 adrian

Bump pad, I'm adding more statistics.


220779 18-Apr-2011 adrian

Rework the Global TX timeout handling to look more like ath9k.

It correctly now sets the AR_IMR BCNMISC register, along with
the GTT register in AR_IMR_S2.


220772 18-Apr-2011 adrian

Add global TX timeout handling.

The global TX timeout counter increments whenever a frame is ready
to be transmitted and the medium is busy.


220738 17-Apr-2011 adrian

Mark the PHY as inactive before the chip is reset.

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


220722 16-Apr-2011 adrian

Don't do Kite antenna switch selection this way (for now); antenna
diversity is done elsewhere now.


220718 16-Apr-2011 adrian

Disable classic-style fast diversity on the AR5416 and later.

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.


220713 16-Apr-2011 adrian

Remove some duplicate code from the AR9285 TX power configuration path.


220601 13-Apr-2011 adrian

Add in the AR9285 (Kite) diversity to if_ath, enabling TX/RX antenna
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.


220600 13-Apr-2011 adrian

Add in the last bit of the HAL support for Kite diversity.

* 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.


220599 13-Apr-2011 adrian

More kite diversity related changes.

* 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.


220598 13-Apr-2011 adrian

Change this to be less noisy.


220593 13-Apr-2011 adrian

Bring over the antenna diversity logic support for Kite.

Again, this is just the code ported from ath9k and included in the build,
it isn't yet enabled.


220590 13-Apr-2011 adrian

Port over a TX gain fix from ath9k specific to the AR9285 (Kite) and AR9271.
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.


220589 13-Apr-2011 adrian

Add new fields to the v4k EEPROM modal header.


220588 13-Apr-2011 adrian

Add OS_REG_RMW, which mirrors ath9k's REG_RMW.

This macro does a read-modify-write pass with register bits to set and clear.


220587 13-Apr-2011 adrian

Add the initial AR9285 PHY glue for supporting antenna diversity.
This code isn't currently used anywhere; it's just linked into the build.


220539 11-Apr-2011 adrian

De-dup the ar5416 rates array definition.


220444 08-Apr-2011 adrian

Fix the completely wrong types I used in the previous commit.


220443 08-Apr-2011 adrian

Begin fleshing out a public HAL routine to export the per-chain
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.


220442 08-Apr-2011 adrian

Export the per-chain ctl/ext noise floor values, raw and uncut, to the
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.


220438 08-Apr-2011 adrian

Extend the RX descriptor block to include two more EVM words.

This will be needed for later AR93xx/AR94xx 3-stream devices.


220423 07-Apr-2011 adrian

Add some more OS_MARK probes to the RX DMA setup/teardown code path.

I'm trying to debug the RX DMA path and help the ath9k guys with
"RX dma abort stuck" issue that both our drivers have.


220367 05-Apr-2011 adrian

Make the alq log path tunable


220360 05-Apr-2011 adrian

The xpaBiasLvlFreq[] fields in the modal header also need swapping
when the EEPROM contents are byte-swapped.


220325 04-Apr-2011 adrian

Commit missing bits from the last commit:

* add the hal capability flag
* make sure its disabled for the ar9280/ar9285.


220324 04-Apr-2011 adrian

Add a HAL capability bit for supporting self-linked RX descriptors and disable it for the 11n chipsets.

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.


220323 04-Apr-2011 adrian

At least set the coverage class value here; worry about populating the
register values at a later date.


220302 03-Apr-2011 adrian

I missed committing this last time - it's needed for the 5ghz fast clock calculation.


220298 03-Apr-2011 adrian

Add in the clock timing calculation when Merlin is using the 5ghz fast clock.
This is a 44mhz clock, not a 40mhz clock like normal for 5ghz operation.


220294 03-Apr-2011 adrian

Import a fix from the ath9k - reduce the TX FIFO size for Kite (AR9285.)


220293 03-Apr-2011 adrian

Add an explanation of the inivals


220259 02-Apr-2011 adrian

From ath9k - clear the RX descriptor status before recycling it.


220258 02-Apr-2011 adrian

Add some more debugging


220188 31-Mar-2011 adrian

Introduce AH_AR5416_INTERRUPT_MITIGATION which enables interrupt mitigation for
the AR5416 and later. Rename the older HAL option to use this.


220185 31-Mar-2011 adrian

Break out the ath PCI logic into a separate device/module.

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.


220132 29-Mar-2011 adrian

According to ath9k recv.c, one shouldn't be doing self-linked descriptors
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.


220098 28-Mar-2011 adrian

Add in HT protection but disable it by default.

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.


220054 27-Mar-2011 adrian

Fix typo.


220053 27-Mar-2011 adrian

Rename AH_ENABLE_11N to ATH_ENABLE_11 - the HAL supports 11n by
default but the ath driver doesn't. This is a much more consistent
name.


220035 26-Mar-2011 adrian

.. And another missed commit - add the PSPOLL capability.


220034 26-Mar-2011 adrian

This was missing from the previous HAL commit - it fixes a typo and
introduces the PS-POLL hardware support.


220033 26-Mar-2011 adrian

If 802.11n is enabled, bump the number of buffers used up to a larger
level.

This is important for AMPDU RX as each burst is multiple packets in a row.


220029 26-Mar-2011 adrian

Add in the hardware PS-POLL frame reception setting, but leave it disabled
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.


220027 26-Mar-2011 adrian

Introduce hardware PS-POLL support in the HAL.

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.


220025 26-Mar-2011 adrian

Put these two back to mirror what ath9k does.

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.


220022 26-Mar-2011 adrian

Shuffle around the HAL_RX_FILTER bits to be slightly more sensible.

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.


219985 25-Mar-2011 adrian

After discussing with Bernhard, the "right" way in net80211 to check
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.


219984 25-Mar-2011 adrian

I broke periodic adc calibrations - so restore them to working order.


219981 25-Mar-2011 adrian

Re-disable the setting of 2040/shortgi bits for now.

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.


219980 25-Mar-2011 adrian

After discussion with Felix Fietkau (nbd) about the ath9k Merlin LNA bit
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.


219979 25-Mar-2011 adrian

Flip ANI on for the AR5416 and later chips. I haven't verified it on
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.


219978 25-Mar-2011 adrian

The right commit - add a couple more AR_PCU_MISC_MODE2 register bits -
SOWL specific.


219977 25-Mar-2011 adrian

oops, commited the wrong file change.


219976 25-Mar-2011 adrian

Add some more AR_PCU_MISC_MODE2 register settings - these are SOWL or later.


219975 25-Mar-2011 adrian

Bring over interrupt mitigation changes from ath9k.

* 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.


219962 24-Mar-2011 adrian

Flip back HT/40 and Short-GI (for 40mhz operation). These are now verified to work.


219948 24-Mar-2011 adrian

Fix a completely wrong variable reference.


219942 23-Mar-2011 adrian

Make the ar2133ForceBias() call controllable at runtime.

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.)


219894 23-Mar-2011 adrian

The AR5416+ chips all have MIB counters (which the AR5416 ANI code assumes)
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.


219891 22-Mar-2011 adrian

Enable setting the MCS rate bit for ast_tx_rate.

This allows ath_stats to print the MCS rate when TX'ing.


219870 22-Mar-2011 adrian

Clean up setting the short preamble bit in the rate - this way it
is very obvious (and cleanly so) that it occurs for non-11n rates.


219869 22-Mar-2011 adrian

Flip this over to be a configurable option for people who wish to play with it.

It's still not ready for prime-time - there's some TX niggles with these 11n
cards that I'm still trying to wrap my head around, and AMPDU-TX is just not
implemented so things will come to a crashing halt if you're not careful.


219868 22-Mar-2011 adrian

This isn't actually needed any longer, A-MPDU frames work fine if only tagged for 11n nodes.


219863 22-Mar-2011 adrian

Bring over an XPA (external power amplifer) bias fix for the AR9160.

This fix modifies the const addac initval array, rather than modifying
a local copy. It means that running >1 AR9160 on a board may prove to
be unpredictable.

The AR5416 init path also does something similar, so supporting
>1 AR5416 of different revisions could cause problems.

The later fix will be to create a private copy of the Addac data
for the AR5416, AR9160 (and AR9100 when it's merged in) and then
modify that as needed.

Obtained From: Linux ath9k


219862 22-Mar-2011 adrian

Fix OFDM ANI statistics gathering for the AR5416 and later chips.

I found this when trying to figure out why the RX PHY error count
didn't match the OFDM error count ANI was using. It turns out
there was two problems:

* What this commit addresses - using the wrong mask for OFDM errors,
and
* The RX filter is set incorrectly after a channel scan (at least)
even if interference mitigation is enabled by default.

ANI is still disabled by default for the AR5416 and later chips.


219860 22-Mar-2011 adrian

Set the "right" CCA register.

Obtained From: ath9k


219855 22-Mar-2011 adrian

Break out the RF mode setup into ar5416SetRfMode(), mirroring what ath9k does.


219854 22-Mar-2011 adrian

Do a bit of spring cleaning in the board setup code, just to
bring it in line with the rest of the register initialisation.

I've verified that the 2/5ghz board values written to the
chip match what was previously written.


219853 22-Mar-2011 adrian

Bring over a few queue changes from ath9k:

* add pspoll/uapsd queue setup defaults;
* enable the exponential backoff window rather than the random
backoff window when doing TX contention management.


219852 22-Mar-2011 adrian

Even though it's very unlikely the misc mode register setting at -attach-
would be a problem, make sure it isn't overwritten by whatever is in
there at cold reset.

This brings the > ar5416 init path treatment of AR_MISC_MODE.


219851 22-Mar-2011 adrian

Remove the merlin delay workaround here, it isn't appropriate for
the analog bank writes as Merlin never does them.


219840 21-Mar-2011 adrian

Back that commit out - something's broken, and I need to figure out
what/why.


219839 21-Mar-2011 adrian

This CLKDRV workaround should only be for AR5416 v2.0/2.1;
the check was too strict and enabled it for all non AR5416-v2.2
chipsets - including later ones.


219822 21-Mar-2011 adrian

Fix static ucastrate for ath_rate_sample.

* Pull out the static rix stuff into a different function
* I know this may slightly drop performance, but check if a static
rix is needed before each packet TX.

* Whilst I'm at it, add a little extra debugging to the rate
control stuff to make it easier to follow what's going on.


219802 20-Mar-2011 adrian

Disable a check I added a while ago to ensure the initial NF cal completed.

Give it a good go (32 attempts) and then print out a warning that's
going to occur whether HAL debugging is enabled or not. Then don't
abort the radio setup; just continue merrily along.

This should fix the issue that users were having where scanning would
occasionally fail on the active channel, causing traffic to cease
until the radio scanned again.


219794 20-Mar-2011 adrian

Cave in and disable the ADC DC gain/offset calibrations if they're
not needed.

These calibrations are only applicable if the chip operating mode
engages both interleaved RX ADCs (ie, it's compensating for the
differences in DC gain and DC offset -between- the two ADCs.)
Otherwise the chip reads values of 0x0 for the secondary ADC
(as I guess it's not enabled here) and thus writes potentially
bogus info into the chip.

I've tested this on the AR9160 and AR9280; both behave themselves
in 11g mode with these calibrations disabled.


219793 20-Mar-2011 adrian

* Remove a not-needed check in the AR5416+ case
* Restore the chip default of the DCU backoff threshold to 0x2,
mirroring what ath9k does.


219792 20-Mar-2011 adrian

Bring over a copy of the AR5212 TX queue reset and setup routines, in preparation
for fixing them based on the ath9k related TXQ fixes.

I've done this so people can go over the history of the diffs to the original
AR5212 routines (which AR5416 and later chips use) to see what's changed.


219790 20-Mar-2011 adrian

Add a PSPOLL queue type, in preparation for (eventually) porting
over the TX queue setup code from ath9k for the AR5416 and later
chips.


219773 19-Mar-2011 adrian

Add in the channel survey data structures. These will be filled out
by the HAL at some point in the future.


219772 19-Mar-2011 adrian

Reserve a new diagnostic code for the channel survey code I'll add soon.


219771 19-Mar-2011 adrian

Make sure that the AR_MISC_MODE value from the initvals are properly respected.

This commit really is "fix the OFDM duration calculation to match reality when
running in 802.11g mode."

The AR5212 init vals set AR_MISC_MODE to 0x0 and all the bits that can be set are
set through code.

The AR5416 and later initvals set AR_MISC_MODE to various other values (with
the AR5212 AR_MISC_MODE options cleared), which include AR_PCU_CCK_SIFS_MODE .
This adds 6uS to SIFS on non-CCK frames when transmitting.

This fixes the issue where _DATA_ 802.11g OFDM frames were being TX'ed with
the ACK duration set to 38uS, not 44uS as on the AR5212 (and other devices.)

The AR5212 TX pathway obeys the software-programmed duration field in the packet,
but the 11n TX pathway overrides that with a hardware-calculated duration. This
was getting it wrong because of the above AR_MISC_MODE setting. I've verified
that 11g data OFDM frames are now being TXed with the correct ACK+SIFS duration
programmed in.


219770 19-Mar-2011 adrian

Use the HAL method rather than directly calling ar5212ResetTxQueue().

Since ath9k does some slightly different bit fiddling when setting up
the TX queues, it may that the TX queue setup/reset functions will need
overriding later on.


219767 19-Mar-2011 adrian

Add debugging messages to the AR5416 ANI code that's found in the AR5212 ANI code.


219628 14-Mar-2011 adrian

Fix typo that snuck in.


219627 14-Mar-2011 adrian

Bring over the AR9285 board update code from ath9k.

This does a few things in particular:

* Abstracts out the gain control settings into a separate function;
* Configure antenna diversity, LNA and antenna gain parameters;
* Configure ob/db entries - the later v4k EEPROM modal revisions have
multiple OB/DB parameters which are used for some form of
calibration. Although the radio does have defaults for each,
the EEPROM can override them.

This resolves the AR2427 related issues I've been seeing and makes
it stable at all 11g rates for both TX and RX.


219605 13-Mar-2011 adrian

Fix the nfarray offsets for the ar2133/ar5133 radio - (AR5416, AR9160, etc.)

The offsets didn't match the assumption that nfarray[] is ordered by the
chainmask bits and programmed via the register order in ar5416_cca_regs[].
This repairs that damage and ensures that chain 1 is programmed correctly.
(And extension channels will now be programmed correctly also.)

This fixes some of the stuck beacons I've been seeing on my AR9160/AR5416
setups - because Chain 1 would be programmed -80 or -85 dBm, which is
higher than the actual noise floor and thus convincing the radio that
indeed it can't ever transmit.


219588 13-Mar-2011 adrian

The number of streams is not based on the interface stream count, but the
number of streams needed for that MCS rate.


219586 13-Mar-2011 adrian

Move out some of the shared eeprom board value calculation routines into ah.c
rather than duplicating them for the v14 (ar5416+) and v4k (ar9285) codebases.

Further chipsets (eg the AR9287) have yet another EEPROM format which will use
these routines to calculate things.


219585 13-Mar-2011 adrian

* Add in some board settings debugging to log what's being written
to the TX closed-loop power control registers.
* Modify a couple of functions to take the register chain number,
rather than the regChainOffset value. This allows for the
register chain to be logged.


219481 11-Mar-2011 adrian

Port over the AR9285 PA calibration and initial calibration code from
Linux ath9k.

The ath9k ar9002_hw_init_cal() isn't entirely clear about what
is supposed to be called for what chipsets, so I'm ignoring the
rest of it and just porting the AR9285 init cal path as-is and
leaving the rest alone. Subsequent commits may also tidy up the
Merlin (AR9285) and other chipset support.

Obtained from: Linux ath9k


219480 11-Mar-2011 adrian

Introduce methods for the initial calibration and the new PA calibration
routines.

These are needed for the AR9285/AR2427 and AR9287 calibration routines
which will be introducecd in a later commit.


219479 11-Mar-2011 adrian

Remove the ar9285FillVpdTable() and just use ar5416FillVpdTable().


219475 11-Mar-2011 adrian

Bring over the same fix from the AR5416 PDADC calibration code.

The ath9k driver has a unified boundary/pdadc function, whereas
ours is split into two (one for each EEPROM type.) This is why
the AR9280 check is done here where we could safely assume it'll
always be AR9280 or later.


219474 11-Mar-2011 adrian

Don't call ar5416SetTransmitPower() directly from ar5416SetTxPowerLimit();
this is incorrect for Kite (AR9285) and any future chipsets that
override the EEPROM related routines.

It meant that a direct call to set the TX power would call the v14 EEPROM
AR5416/AR9280 calibration routines, rather than the v4k EEPROM routines
for the AR9285. It thus read the incorrect values from the EEPROM and
programmed garbage PDADC and TX power values into the hardware.


219450 10-Mar-2011 adrian

Kite is a 1x1 stream device.


219445 10-Mar-2011 adrian

Now that the power curve adjustment code is in, disable the error check
I introduced earlier, and turn it into debugging output.


219444 10-Mar-2011 adrian

Port over the v14 eeprom PDADC curve changes from ath9k.

It looks like these apply in both open and closed loop TX power control,
but the only merlin boards i have either have OL -or- a non-default power
offset, not both.


219443 10-Mar-2011 adrian

Merlin fix - first pdadc gain index is 0 - minpwr/2 .

Obtained from: Linux ath9k


219442 10-Mar-2011 adrian

Migrate the regulatory database definitions into separate header files
to both make things clearer, and to make it easier to write userland
code which pulls in these definitions without needing to pull in the
rest of the HAL.

This stuff should be deprecated at some point in the future once
the net80211 regulatory domain support encapsulates all of the
defintions here.


219441 10-Mar-2011 adrian

Introduce the Merlin PWDCLKIND workaround.

This is something bus clock related from what I can gather. It is needed for
the AR9220 based Ubiquiti SR71-12 and SR71-15 Mini-PCI NICs.

(Note: those NICs don't work right now because of earlier changes to handle
power table offset correctly. That'll be resolved in a follow-up commit.)


219419 09-Mar-2011 adrian

For chips that are full reset in ar5416ChipReset(), save and restore the TSF.

Merlin (ar9280) and later were full-reset if they're doing open-loop TX
power control but the TSF wasn't being saved/restored.

Add ar5212SetTsf64() which sets the 64 bit TSF appropriately.


219394 08-Mar-2011 adrian

Break out the ath regulatory domain structures into a separate header file.


219393 08-Mar-2011 adrian

Implement open-loop TX power control (OLC) for Merlin (AR9280) and
generally tidy up the TX power programming code.

Enforce that the TX power offset for Merlin is -5 dBm, rather than
any other value programmable in the EEPROM. This requires some
further code to be ported over from ath9k, so until that is done
and tested, fail to attach NICs whose TX power offset isn't -5
dBm.

This improves both legacy and HT transmission on my merlin board.
It allows for stable MCS TX up to MCS15.

Specifics:

* Refactor out a bunch of the TX power calibration code -
setting/obtaining the power detector / gain boundaries,
programming the PDADC
* Take the -5 dBm TX power offset into account on Merlin -
"0" in the per-rate TX power register means -5 dBm, not
0 dBm
* When doing OLC
* Enforce min (0) and max (AR5416_MAX_RATE_POWER) when fiddling
with the TX power, to avoid the TX power values from wrapping
when low.
* Implement the 1 dBm cck power offset when doing OLC
* Implement temperature compensation for 2.4ghz mode when doing OLC
* Implement an AR9280 specific TX power calibration routine which
includes the OLC twiddles, leaving the earlier chipset path
(AR5416, AR9160) alone

Whilst here, use these refactored routines for the AR9285 TX power
calibration/programming code and enforce correct overflow/underflow
handling when fiddling with TX power values.

Obtained from: linux ath9k


219318 06-Mar-2011 adrian

Add an EEPROM op that extracts out the power table offset.
It defaults to -5 dBm for eeproms earlier than v21.

This apparently only applies to Merlin (AR9280) or later,
earlier 11n chipsets have a power table offset of 0.
All the code in ath9k which checks the power table offset
and takes it into account first ensures the chip is
Merlin or later.


219315 05-Mar-2011 adrian

Change HALDEBUG() to be a macro that conditionally calls the debug output routine.

The earlier way of doing debugging would evaluate the function parameters
before calling the HALDEBUG. In the case of detailed register debugging
would mean a -lot- of unneeded register IO and other stuff was going on.

This method evaluates the ath_hal_debug variable before the function
parameters are evaluated, drastically reducing the amount of overhead
enabling HAL debugging during compilation.


219252 03-Mar-2011 adrian

The sample rate module currently does the slightly wrong thing when
determining whether to use MRR or not.

It uses the 11g protection mode when calculating 11n related stuff, rather
than checking the 11n protection mode.

Furthermore, the 11n chipsets can quite happily handle multi-rate retry w/
protection; the TX path and rate control modules need to be taught about
that.


219218 03-Mar-2011 adrian

Port over ar5416OverrideIni() from ath9k ar5008_hw_override_ini().

* change the BB gating logic to explicitly define which chips are covered;
the ath9k method isn't as clear.
* don't disable the BB gating for now, the ar5416 initvals have it, and the
ar9160 initval sets it to 0x0. Figure out why before re-enabling this.
* migrate the Merlin (ar9280) applicable WAR from the Kite (ar9285) code
(which won't get called for Merlin!) and stuff it in here.


219217 03-Mar-2011 adrian

* fix the ar5416 check macros to be slightly more correct;
* add some stubs for chipsets that we haven't yet obtained support for.


219216 03-Mar-2011 adrian

Modify the sample rate module output to be (slightly) easier to understand.

* add dot11rate_label() which returns Mb or MCS based on legacy or HT
* use it everywhere dot11rate() is used
* in the "current selection" part at the top of the debugging output,
otuput what the rate itself is rather than the rix. The rate index
(rix) has very little meaning to normal humans who don't know how
to find the PHY settings for each of the chipsets; pointing out the
rix rate and type is likely more useful.


219214 03-Mar-2011 adrian

Disable trying to do HT/40 and short-GI TX.

These flags are just plain wrong - they're the node flags from negotiation,
not the configured flags. I'll jump in later on and figure out exactly
what should be done to properly set these two flags when in both STA mode
(ie, what the AP says is possible and what's configured) and AP mode
(ie, where the AP has a configuration, but then negotiates what's possible
with each node, so per-node configuration can and will differ.)

This allows the 11n 2.4ghz/ht20 mode to associate (but perform poorly still)
and exchange MCS rates with atheros reference APs and a Cisco/Linksys
E3000 AP.


219185 02-Mar-2011 adrian

Break the keycache management functions out into if_ath_keycache.c .


219180 02-Mar-2011 adrian

Migrate the sysctl related routines (statistics, debugging, etc) out of
if_ath.c and into if_ath_sysctl.c .


218935 22-Feb-2011 adrian

Don't set the RTS/CTS enable bit per-scenario if the global RTS/CTS
flags aren't set.


218932 22-Feb-2011 adrian

Shuffle around the RTS/CTS rate/duration logic.

* Turn ath_tx_calc_ctsduration() into a function that
returns the ctsduration, or -1 for HT rates;
* add a printf() to ath_tx_calc_ctsduration() which will be
very loud if somehow that function is called with an MCS
rate;
* Add ath_tx_get_rtscts_rate() which returns the RTS/CTS
rate to use for the given data rate, incl. the short
preamble flag;
* Only call ath_tx_calc_ctsduration() for non-11n chipsets;
11n chipsets don't require the rtscts duration to be
calculated.


218931 22-Feb-2011 adrian

* Don't setup the scenario if the try count is 0
* Comment what else is going on during rate scenario setup


218925 21-Feb-2011 adrian

Fix formatting of new stat sysctls; add descriptions


218924 21-Feb-2011 adrian

Add a new counter which tracks frames TX'ed with HT protection.


218923 21-Feb-2011 adrian

Add a vocal warning to ath_hal_computetxtime() function is used for non-11n rates.

It's used to calculate:

* the initial per-rate entries for short/long preamble ACK durations;
* packet durations for TDMA slot decisions;
* RTS/CTS protection durations;
* updating the duration field in the 802.11 frame header

This way invalid durations will generate a warning, prompting for it to be
fixed.


218908 21-Feb-2011 adrian

Modify the AR5416 11na rate table to use 24mb OFDM 11a for control traffic,
rather than MCS 0.

Using MCS0 for protecting 11a rates seems a bit silly.


218907 21-Feb-2011 adrian

Implement setting the short preamble bit if it's needed for the current node.

Short preamble rates are only for legacy rates; MCS rate codes don't have a short
preamble code like this.


218779 17-Feb-2011 adrian

Just be double-sure short-gi isn't being enabled in 20mhz mode.


218778 17-Feb-2011 adrian

Disable short-GI in 20mhz mode - the hardware doesn't support this.


218764 17-Feb-2011 adrian

Add in ANI parameters for the AR9280. These aren't enabled by default
as they're likely not entirely correct, but they give people something
to toy with to compare behaviour/performance.

Disable the anti-noise part, as this apparently interferes with
RIFS. I haven't verified this.


218763 17-Feb-2011 adrian

Add a new parameter to selectively enable/disable the ANI operations.

This was inspired by ath9k, which disables ANI anti-noise immunity
parameter tweaking (but leaves the rest of the ANI operations alone.)


218762 17-Feb-2011 adrian

Call the right function.


218761 17-Feb-2011 adrian

Properly propagate whether the channel is HT40 or not when calculating
packet duration for the ath_rate_sample module.

This doesn't affect the packet TX at all; only how much time the
sample rate module attributes to a completed TX.


218708 15-Feb-2011 adrian

Disable flipping antennas for AR9280.

Flipping antennas when doing 11n would cause all kinds of strange issues.
Just don't do it for now and when it comes time to do it, don't do it here.


218690 14-Feb-2011 adrian

bring this in line with what ath9k does.


218689 14-Feb-2011 adrian

Some statistics additions - prepare for error codes > 32 (since the AR5416
error mask is > 5 bits) and add some extra CRC/HT40/ShortGI counters to
help debug 802.11n issues.


218642 13-Feb-2011 adrian

This should be TX stream, not RX stream.


218593 12-Feb-2011 adrian

The current code used the fields in ath_set11nratescenario() . Use them
correctly:

* pass in whether to allow the hardware to override the duration field
in the main data frame (durupdate_en) - PS_POLL frames in particular
don't have the duration bit overriden;
* there's no rts/cts duration here; that's done elsehwere


218566 11-Feb-2011 adrian

.. how'd this compile before I commit it and then not now?

Fixed.


218556 11-Feb-2011 adrian

The last parameter to ath_computedur_ht() is short-GI, not short-preamble.


218490 09-Feb-2011 adrian

Expose the 4k transaction workaround hooks to the driver, but don't (yet)
fix the descriptor allocation.


218488 09-Feb-2011 adrian

Add in the (very!) optional glue to flip the 11n bits for if_ath.

There's still a lot of random issues to sort out with the radio side of
things and AMPDU RX handling (and completely missing AMPDU TX handling!)
but if people wish to give this a go and assist in debugging the
issues, they can define ATH_DO_11N to enable it.

I'm just re-iterating - this is here to allow people to assist in
further 11n development; it is not any indication that the 11n support
is complete and functional.

Important notes:

* This doesn't support 1-stream cards yet - (eg AR9285) - the various bits
that negotiate TX/RX MCS don't know not to try >1 stream TX or negotiate
1-stream RX; so don't enable 11n unless you've first taught the rate
control module and the net80211 stack to negotiate 1-stream stuff;

* The only rate control module minimally 11n aware is ath_rate_sample;

* ath_rate_sample doesn't know about HT/40; so airtime will be incorrectly
calculated;

* The AR9160 and AR9280 radio code is unreliable at the higher MCS rates for
some reason; this will definitely impact 11n performance;

* AMPDU-TX isn't yet implemented;

* AMPDU-RX may be a bit buggy still and will definitely suffer from the
radio unreliability mentioned above (ie, don't expect 150/300mbit
RX just yet.)


218483 09-Feb-2011 adrian

Fix the keycache behaviour for multicast keycache search.

The correct bit to set is 0x1 in the high MAC address byte, not 0x80.
The hardware isn't programmed with that bit (which is the multicast
adress bit.)

The linux ath9k keycache code uses that bit in the MAC as a "this is
a multicast key!" and doesn't set the AR_KEYTABLE_VALID bit.
This tells the hardware the MAC isn't to be used for unicast destination
matching but it can be used for multicast bssid traffic.

This fixes some encryption problems in station mode.

PR: kern/154598


218453 08-Feb-2011 adrian

net80211 really doesn't want A_MPDU to appear on non-11n station node mbufs.
Revert back to the previous method of doing it for where a node can be
identified and it's an 11n node.

I'll have to do some further research into exactly what is being messed up
with the sequence number matching and I'll then revisit this.


218448 08-Feb-2011 adrian

Commit some missing bits to the sample rate module to (more) correctly calculate 802.11n packet duration.

This doesn't yet take into account HT40 packet durations as the node info
(needed to know if it's a HT20 or HT40 node) isn't available everywhere
it needs to be.


218441 08-Feb-2011 adrian

I missed this commit - enable 4k transaction support for the ar5416+ar9160.


218436 08-Feb-2011 adrian

There's apparently a bug with Merlin (AR9280) and later chipsets where
putting descriptors (not buffers) across a 4k page boundary can cause issues.
I've not seen it in production myself but it apparently can cause problems.

So, in preparation for addressing this workaround, (re)-expose the particular
HAL capability bit which marks whether the chipset has support for cross-4k-
boundary transactions or not.

A subsequent commit will modify the descriptor allocation to avoid allocating
descriptor entries that straddle a 4k page boundary.


218420 07-Feb-2011 adrian

Add in some AR9280 specific board configuration options.

* The existing radio config code was for the AR5416/AR9160 and missed out
on some of the AR9280 specific stuff. Include said stuff from ath9k.

* Refactor out the gain control settings into a new function, again pilfered
from ath9k.

* Use the analog register RMW macro when touching analog registers.

Obtained from: Linux ath9k


218419 07-Feb-2011 adrian

Bring over some AR9280-specific v14 additions that exist in ath9k.

Obtained from: Linux ath9k


218416 07-Feb-2011 adrian

Use analog delay macro for modifying an analog register.


218415 07-Feb-2011 adrian

Add a new RMW macro for analog register writes which implements the needed
wait period between operations.


218409 07-Feb-2011 adrian

Fix typo in SIFS setup


218402 07-Feb-2011 adrian

Add in a per phy error sysctl.


218379 06-Feb-2011 adrian

Just tag all RX packets as needing reorder processing for now.

This fixes two problems -

* All packets need to be processed here, not just aggregate ones - as any
received frames (AMPDU or otherwise) in the given TID (traffic class id)
will update the sequence number and, implied with that, update the window;
* It seems there's situations where packets aren't matching a current node but
somehow need to be tracked. Thus just tag them all for now; I'll figure out
the why later.

Whilst I'm here, bump the stats counters whilst I'm at it.

This fixes AMPDU RX in my tests; the main problems now stem from what look
like PHY level error/retransmits which are impeding general throughput, incl.
AMPDU.


218378 06-Feb-2011 adrian

Only tag packets with the A-MPDU bit if they were part of an A-MPDU RX.

Whilst I'm here, add a counter to count said packets.


218354 05-Feb-2011 adrian

Add a temporary workaround so the 11n rate scenario setup code sets a useful
TX chainmask.

since the upper layers don't (yet) know about the active TX/RX chainmasks,
it can't tell the rate scenario functions what to use. I'll eventually sort
this out; this restores functionality in the meantime.


218243 04-Feb-2011 adrian

Oops, fix newbie mistake that breaks the normal build.


218240 03-Feb-2011 adrian

Modify the TX path to set and use the 11n rate scenario bits.

This isn't strictly required to TX (at least non-agg and non-HT40,
non-short-GI) frames; but as it needs to be done anyway, just get
it done.

Linux ath9k uses the rate scenario style path for -all- packets,
legacy or otherwise. This code does much the same.

Beacon TX still uses the legacy, non-rate-scenario TX descriptor
setup. Ath9k also does this.

This 11n rate scenario path is only called for chips in the AR5416
HAL; legacy chips use the previous interface for TX'ing.


218238 03-Feb-2011 adrian

Disable the code I previously added from Rui's 802.11n branch.

A-MPDU RX interferes with packet retransmission/reordering.
In local testing, I was seeing A-MPDU being negotiated and then
not used by the AP sending frames to the STA; the STA would then
treat non A-MPDU frames that are retransmits as out of the window
and get plain confused.

The hardware RX status descriptor has a "I'm part of an aggregate"
bit; so this should eventually be tested and then punted to the
A-MPDU reorder handling only if it has this bit set.


218183 02-Feb-2011 adrian

Call the correct ANI Attach routine.


218170 01-Feb-2011 adrian

Just to be sure, make sure the MCS rates are allowed for TX.

Approved by: rpaulo@


218160 01-Feb-2011 adrian

Add a new method to the rate control modules which extract out the
three other rates and try counts.

The 11n rate scenario path wants to take a list of rate and tries,
rather than calling setupxtxdesc().


218159 01-Feb-2011 adrian

Include some preliminary TX HT rate scenario setup code.

The AR5416 and later TX descriptors have new fields for supporting
11n bits (eg 20/40mhz mode, short/long GI) and enabling/disabling
RTS/CTS protection per rate.

These functions will be responsible for initialising the TX descriptors
for the AR5416 and later chips for both HT and legacy frames.

Beacon frames will remain using the non-11n TX descriptor setup for now;
Linux ath9k does much the same.

Note that these functions aren't yet used anywhere; a few more framework
changes are needed before all of the right rate information is available
for TX.


218157 01-Feb-2011 adrian

Refator the common code which calculates the 802.11g protection duration.


218154 01-Feb-2011 adrian

* Add a rather hacky "does this speak the 11n TX descriptor format"
function; which will be later used by the TX path to determine
whether to use the extended features or not.

* Break out the descriptor chaining logic into a separate function;
again so it can be switched out later on for the 11n version when
needed.

* Refactor out the encryption-swizzling code that's common in the
raw and normal TX path.


218151 01-Feb-2011 adrian

Add TX/RX chainmask info to if_ath - this is needed for the 11n TX rate series.


218150 01-Feb-2011 adrian

Add a new capability which reports the number of spatial streams a device supports.

The higher levels (net80211, if_ath, ath_rate) need this to make correct
choices about what MCS capabilities to advertise and what MCS rates are
able to be TXed.

In summary:

* AR5416 - 2/3 antennas, 2x2 streams
* AR9160 - 2/3 antennas, 2x2 streams
* AR9220 - 2 antennas, 2x2 sstraems
* AR9280 - 2 antennas, 2x2 streams
* AR9285 - 2 antennas but with antenna diversity, 1x1 stream


218146 31-Jan-2011 adrian

Remove the now unneeded XXX.


218145 31-Jan-2011 adrian

Enable AMPDU reorder processing and receiving BAR frames when doing 802.11n.

Obtained from: rpaulo@


218131 31-Jan-2011 adrian

Don't incorrectly set the burst duration setting in the TX descriptor.

After inspecting the ath9k source, it seems the AR5416 and later MACs
don't take an explicit RTS/CTS duration. A per-scenario (ie, what multi-
rate retry became) rts/cts control flag and packet duration is provided;
the hardware then apparently fills in whatever details are required.
The per-rate sp/lpack duration calculation just isn't used anywhere
in the ath9k TX packet length calculations.

The burst duration register controls something different; it seems to
be involved with RTS/CTS protection of 11n aggregate frames and is set
via a call to ar5416Set11nBurstDuration().

I've done some light testing with rts/cts protected frames and nothing
seems to break; but this may break said RTS/CTS and CTS-to-self protection.


218069 29-Jan-2011 adrian

Avoid writing CCA threshold values for the EXT radios for non-HT40 channels.


218068 29-Jan-2011 adrian

Bring over some NF calibration changes from ath9k.

Each different radio chipset has a different "good" range of CCA
(clear channel access) parameters where, if you write something
out of range, it's possible the radio will go deaf.

Also, since apparently occasionally reading the NF calibration
returns "wrong" values, so enforce those limits on what is being
written into the CCA register.

Write a default value if there's no history available.

This isn't the case right now but it may be later on when "off-channel"
scanning occurs without init'ing or changing the NF history buffer.
(As each channel may have a different noise floor; so scanning or
other off-channel activity shouldn't affect the NF history of
the current channel.)


218067 29-Jan-2011 adrian

Fix some errors introduced w/ the last commit; fix setting RTS/CTS in the 11n rate scenario.

* I messed up a couple of things in if_athvar.h; so fix that.
* Undo some guesswork done in ar5416Set11nRateScenario() and introduce a
flags parameter which lets the caller set a few things. To begin with,
this includes whether to do RTS or CTS protection.
* If both RTS and CTS is set, only do RTS. Both RTS and CTS shouldn't be
set on a frame.


218066 29-Jan-2011 adrian

Link in the 11n specific TX methods into the HAL.


218065 29-Jan-2011 adrian

Migrate the TX path code out of if_ath and into a separate source file.

There's two reasons for this:

* the raw and non-raw TX path shares a lot of duplicate code which should be
refactored;
* the 11n-ready chip TX path needs a little reworking.


218061 29-Jan-2011 adrian

Add a check for the AR9285E; I have no idea what this is.

The only other changes in ath9k for the AR9285E revolve around sleep modes
which are not fully implemented here yet.


218058 29-Jan-2011 adrian

Break out the debug macros from if_ath.c into if_ath_debug.[ch] .

This is prep work for breaking out the TX path into a separate
set of source files.


218013 28-Jan-2011 adrian

(Mostly) teach ath_rate_sample about MCS rates.

This is just the bare minimum needed to teach ath_rate_sample to try
and handle MCS rates. It doesn't at all attempt to find the best
rate by any means - it doesn't know anything about the MCS rate
relations, TX aggregation or any of the much sexier 11n stuff
that's out there.

It's just enough to transmit 11n frames and handle TX completion.

It shouldn't affect legacy (11abg) behaviour.

Obtained from: rpaulo@


218012 28-Jan-2011 adrian

Make space for the extended 802.11n MCS rate tables.


218011 28-Jan-2011 adrian

Bring in some 802.11n packet duration calculation functions from a mix of Sam/Rui and linux ath9k .

This will eventually be used by rate control modules and by the TX
code for calculating packet duration when handling rts/cts protection.

Obtained from: sam@, rpaulo@, linux ath9k


217930 27-Jan-2011 adrian

Initialise the chainmask from the EEPROM rather than the hard-coded defaults.

The defaults enabled three chains on the AR5416 even if the card has two
chains. This restores that and ensures that only the correct TX/RX
chainmasks are used.

When HT modes are enabled, all TX chains will be correctly enabled.

This should now enable analog chain swapping with 2-chain cards.
I'm not sure if this is needed for just the AR5416 or whether
it also applies to AR9160, AR9280 and AR9287 (later on); I'll have
to get clarification.


217925 27-Jan-2011 adrian

Add missing getCapability call for AR5416.


217923 27-Jan-2011 adrian

Make a note to re-check whether that particular check is needed.


217921 27-Jan-2011 adrian

Writing to the analog registers on the AR9220 (Merlin PCI) seems to require a delay.

This, along with an initval change which will appear in a subsequent commit,
fixes bus panics that I have been seing with the AR9220 on a Routerstation Pro
(AR7161 MIPS board.)

Obtained from: Linux ath9k
PR: kern/154220


217882 26-Jan-2011 adrian

Add ar5416RestoreChainMask() which will undo any AR5416 specific chainmask
overriding after calibration.

This will get set for other two chain radios, such as AR9280 and later on,
AR9287. It should however be a nul operation.


217881 26-Jan-2011 adrian

Add an AR5416 workaround - force a different bias based on 2.4ghz channel frequency.

Obtained from: Linux ath9k


217879 26-Jan-2011 adrian

Break out the chainmask init code into a new function - ar5416InitChainMasks() .

ath9k does a few different things here during config - if it's an early
AR5416 with two chains, it enables all three chains for calibration and
then restores the chainmask to the original values after initial
calibration has completed.

The reason behind this commit is to begin breaking out the chainmask
configuration for this specific reason; follow-up commits will add
the chainmask restore in the ar5416Reset() routine.


217878 26-Jan-2011 adrian

* fix HAL_DEBUG_INTERRUPT to be a separate bit, it was overlapping with
something else
* add HAL_DEBUG_GPIO, for some GPIO related debugging I'm tinkering with
at the moment.


217814 25-Jan-2011 adrian

* Re-format the v4k header to be consistent
* Re-do the structure size/component math to make sure the struct matches
the expected size
* Just to be clear that we care about bitmask ordering, revert my previous
change and instead define that macro if we're on big-endian.


217813 25-Jan-2011 adrian

Bring over a fix from ath9k - zero some of the TX descriptors for Kite/AR9285.

Kite doesn't have per-chain control (it has one chain) or antenna control; so
don't try to set those descriptor entries.


217812 25-Jan-2011 adrian

Rename this linux-ism __BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD macro to something suitable for FreeBSD.

Warner has pointed out that FreeBSD's bit orders follow byte orders.


217811 25-Jan-2011 adrian

Commit updated AR9285 (Kite) v2 initvals from ath9k.


217809 25-Jan-2011 adrian

Fix the Atheros V4K EEPROM definitions to match those in ath9k.

It turns out that the V4K eeprom definitions (used by the AR9285 and
its derivatives) is wrong. These values are at least causing issues
on my AR2427.

With this fix (and initvals in a subsequent commit), the AR2427 behaves
a lot better.

Note - there's still significant drift between the ath9k v4k eeprom
init code (again, used by AR9285 and derivatives) and what's in this
tree. That needs to be investigated and resolved.


217790 24-Jan-2011 adrian

Remove an invalid register setup; this is likely a holdover from
the AR5212 code. It doesn't exist in ath9k and I've been told it
doesn't exist in the Atheros internal driver.


217752 23-Jan-2011 adrian

Enable the 11n PHY by default whether or not 11n is configured.

The linux ath9k driver and (from what I've been told) the atheros reference
driver does this; it then leaves discarding 11n frames to the 802.11 layer.

Whilst I'm here, merge in a fix from ath9k which maintains a turbo register
setting when enabling the 11n register; and remove an un-needed (duplicate)
flag setting.


217751 23-Jan-2011 adrian

Update the AR9280v2 inivals to match what is in Linux ath9k.

This repairs the behaviour of my AR9280 - both radio chains now seem
to correctly be receiving.


217687 21-Jan-2011 adrian

Fix some typos.


217686 21-Jan-2011 adrian

Add missing getCapability call for AR5416.


217685 21-Jan-2011 adrian

Modify the v14/v4k eeprom diag interface to return the whole eeprom.

The v1 and v3 interfaces returned the whole EEPROM but the v14/v4k
interfaces just returned the base header. There's extra information
outside of that which would also be nice to get access to.


217684 21-Jan-2011 adrian

ANI changes #1 - split out the ANI polling from the RxMonitor hook.

The rxmonitor hook is called on each received packet. This can get very,
very busy as the tx/rx/chanbusy registers are thus read each time a packet
is received.

Instead, shuffle out the true per-packet processing which is needed and move
the rest of the ANI processing into a periodic event which runs every 100ms
by default.


217641 20-Jan-2011 adrian

ar9280SetAntennaSwitch() was using the AR5416 chainmasks (3 chains)
rather than the AR9280 chainmasks (2 chains)


217634 20-Jan-2011 adrian

Only enable 11n modes if the chipset suports 11n.

Since the AR2427 doesn't allow 802.11n, it shouldn't have them
configured.


217632 20-Jan-2011 adrian

Include the device ids for the AR2427.

This is apparently an AR9285 with the 802.11n specific bits disabled.

This code is completely untested; I'm doing this in response to users
who wish to test the functionality out. It's likely as buggy as the
AR9285 support is in FreeBSD at the moment.


217631 20-Jan-2011 adrian

Push the non-AR5416 related stuff into chipset specific directories.

sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar5416/ is getting very crowded and further
commits will make it even more crowded. Now is a good time to
shuffle these files out before any more extensive work is done
on them.

Create an ar9003 directory whilst I'm here; ar9003 specific
chipset code will eventually live there.


217629 20-Jan-2011 adrian

Add a comment from my local HAL about what is actually going on here
with these ADC DC Gain/Offset calibrations.

The whole idea is to calibrate a pair of ADCs to compensate for any
differences between them.

The AR5416 returns lots of garbage, so there's no need to do the
calibration there.

The AR9160 returns 0 for secondary ADCs when calibrating 2.4ghz 20mhz
modes. It returns valid data for the secondary ADCs when calibrating
2.4ghz HT/40 and any 5ghz mode.


217628 20-Jan-2011 adrian

Migrate the sample rate module to the new ath_hal_gettxcompletionrates() API.

This removes the chipset-dependent TX DMA completion descriptor groveling.
It should now be (more) portable to other, later atheros chipsets when the
time comes.


217627 20-Jan-2011 adrian

Add in the public method to access the tx completion rates.


217624 20-Jan-2011 adrian

Include the initial support for external EEPROMs.

The AR9100 at least doesn't have an external serial EEPROM
attached to the MAC; it instead stores the calibration data
in the normal system flash.

I believe earlier parts can do something similar but I haven't
experienced it first-hand.

This commit introduces an eepromdata pointer into the API but
doesn't at all commit to using it. A future commit will
include the glue needed to allow the AR9100 support code
to use this data pointer as the EEPROM.


217623 20-Jan-2011 adrian

Port over another EEPROM option from ath9k - AR_EEP_DAC_HPWR_5G

This will be used by the temperature compensation calibration code
which will shortly make an appearance.


217622 20-Jan-2011 adrian

Add another HAL function which waits for a register for a configurable amount.

This will be used by some future code.


217621 20-Jan-2011 adrian

Add a new HAL method to retrieve the completion schedule. It sets
the completion schedule from the hardware and returns AH_TRUE if
the hardware supports multi-rate retries (AR5212 and above); and
returns AH_FALSE if the hardware doesn't support multi-rate retries.

The sample rate module directly reads the TX completion descriptor
and extracts the TX schedule information from that. It will be
updated in a future commit to instead use this method to determine
the completion schedule.


217619 20-Jan-2011 adrian

Use the now-exposed diag code, rather than a hard-coded magic number.


217618 20-Jan-2011 adrian

Break out the diagnostic codes from ah_internal.h and place them in ah_diagcodes.h.

Since we now have the source code, there's no reason to hide the diag codes
from other areas.

They live in the HAL as they form part of the HAL API and should still be treate
as "potentially flexible; don't publish as a public API." But since they're
already used as a public API (see follow-up commit), we may as well use
them in place of magic constants.


217368 13-Jan-2011 mdf

Fix up a few more sysctl(9) mis-typing found in various LINT builds.


217323 12-Jan-2011 mdf

sysctl(9) cleanup checkpoint: amd64 GENERIC builds cleanly.

Commit the rest of the devices.


211330 15-Aug-2010 adrian

Fix indenting/whitespace issues introduced by me.


211328 15-Aug-2010 adrian

The comment is misleading - that register setting seems to kick off the
initial chip NF cal.


211309 14-Aug-2010 adrian

A local addition, not imported from ath9k.

AR_PHY_CALMODE is explicitly reset on interface reset for other chipsets;
this commit also sets it for the AR9160.


211308 14-Aug-2010 adrian

* Merge in AR9160 initval updates from Linux-2.6.34.
* Grab the AR_PHY_CCA and AR_PHY_EXT_CCA initvals from Linux wireless-testing.

Obtained from: Linux-2.6.34


211307 14-Aug-2010 adrian

Merge in a fix for the power/(gain?) calculation. Apply it to both
the 5416/9160 and 9285 code paths.

Obtained from: OpenWRT r22123, 522-ath9k_pwrcal_fix.patch


211306 14-Aug-2010 adrian

Fix the calibration logic to correctly clamp the calculated coefficient.

Obtained from: OpenWRT r22123, 521-ath9k_iqcal_fix.patch


211303 14-Aug-2010 adrian

Export ath stats via snmp, rather than requiring a debugging interface
and "athstats".


211299 14-Aug-2010 adrian

Add a global counter of missed beacons.

The existing missed beacon count is reset once a beacon isn't missed.


211214 12-Aug-2010 adrian

* Fix indentation
* Restore comment erroneously deleted from the previous commit


211211 12-Aug-2010 adrian

Loading the NF CCA values may take longer than expected to occur.
If it does, don't then try reprogramming the NF "cap" values (ie
what values are the "maximum" value the NF can be) - instead,
just leave the current CCA value as the NF cap.

This was inspired by some similar work from ath9k. It isn't
a 100% complete solution (as there may be some reason where a
high NF CCA/cap is written, causing the baseband to stop thinking it
is able to transmit, leading to stuck beacon and interface reset)
which I'll investigate and look at fixing in a later commit.

Obtained from: Linux


211210 12-Aug-2010 adrian

Use ar5212IsNFCalInProgress() to check for NF calibration progress.


211209 12-Aug-2010 adrian

Fix indentation.


211208 12-Aug-2010 adrian

Ensure that the correct rxchainmask is used when doing calibration in the
AR5416 and later chipsets.

ath_hal_calibrateN() calls the HAL calibrateN function with rxchainmask=0x1.
This is not necessarily the case for AR5416 and later chipsets.


211207 12-Aug-2010 adrian

Internal NF calibration should not occur in parallel with any other
calibration. Ensure that the NF calibration completes before continuing
with the rest of the calibration setup process.


211206 12-Aug-2010 adrian

Add a couple of functions to check NF calibration progress / completion.


211136 10-Aug-2010 adrian

Don't delay updating the longcal timer - instead, update the longcal
flag immediately so it's only set once per longcal interval.

Without this, the current AR5416 code will continuously spam NF
calibrations during a periodic calibration if the longcal flag
is set. The longcal flag wouldn't be cleared until the calibration
method indicates that calibrations are "complete".

This drops the rate of NF calibration updates down from "once every
shortcal" (ie, every 100ms) during a periodic calibration, to only
once per "longcal" interval. Spamming NF calibrations every 100ms
caused some potentially horrific issues in noisy environments as
NF calibrations can take longer than 100ms and this spamming can
cause invalid NF calibration results to be read back - leading to
missed beacons, and thus leading to a stuck beacon situation.

Stuck beacons cause interface resets, which restart calibrations.
This means that the longcal calibration runs every 100ms (shortcal)
until all initial calibrations are completed. This spamming can then
cause the above issues which leads to stuck beacons, leading to
interface resets, etc, etc. Quite annoying.


211135 10-Aug-2010 adrian

Bring over ar5416 inivals from Linux-2.6.34.

Reviewed by: rpaulo@
Obtained from: Linux


211134 10-Aug-2010 adrian

Re-format the ar5416 inivals to be consistent with what
Linux ath9k uses.


209799 08-Jul-2010 adrian

Extend the ath debugging a little to log the interface name.

Some devices have >1 atheros card and the current debug prints
make it impossible to tell which interface is being unhappy.


209548 27-Jun-2010 rpaulo

Fix typo introduced in previous revision.


209541 26-Jun-2010 rpaulo

Fix the AR_SREV_MERLIN_20_OR_LATER() check.

Submitted by: Alex Kozlov <spam at rm-rf.kiev.ua>
MFC after: 2 weeks


209156 14-Jun-2010 bschmidt

sc_lastrs is also used in case the sending station is not known, for
example in a split IBSS scenario. Therefore always assign sc_lastrs.
This removes a hack I committed in r206457.

Approved by: rpaulo (mentor)


208712 01-Jun-2010 rpaulo

Rewrite ar9285SetBoardValues() to match what ath9k does and fix out of
bounds reads.

MFC after: 3 days


208711 01-Jun-2010 rpaulo

Bring in a couple of fixes from the Linux ath9k related to chip hangs.
While there, try to make the register write pattern look like what's
done by ath9k.

MFC after: 3 days


208703 01-Jun-2010 rpaulo

Fix an off by one in ar9285SetPowerCalTable().

Found with: Coverity Prevent(tm)
CID: 3979
MFC after: 3 days


208644 29-May-2010 rpaulo

Due to the way HALDEBUG() is defined, we need to add curly brackets
when using it as a sole if clause instruction.
While there, fix 'const static' typo.

Submitted by: Arnaud Lacombe <alc@FreeBSD.org>
MFC after: 1 week


208643 29-May-2010 rpaulo

Due to the way HALDEBUG() is defined, we need to add curly brackets when
using it as a sole if clause instruction.

Submitted by: Arnaud Lacombe <alc@FreeBSD.org>
MFC after: 1 week


208642 29-May-2010 rpaulo

Don't shadow the global variable 'version'.

Submitted by: Arnaud Lacombe <alc@NetBSD.org>
MFC after: 1 week


207554 03-May-2010 sobomax

Add new tunable 'net.link.ifqmaxlen' to set default send interface
queue length. The default value for this parameter is 50, which is
quite low for many of today's uses and the only way to modify this
parameter right now is to edit if_var.h file. Also add read-only
sysctl with the same name, so that it's possible to retrieve the
current value.

MFC after: 1 month


207472 01-May-2010 imp

The Atheros AR71xx CPUs, when paired with the AR5212 parts, has a bug
that generates a fatal bus trap. Normally, the chips are setup to do
128 byte DMA bursts, but when on this CPU, they can only safely due
4-byte DMA bursts due to this bug. Details of the exact nature of the
bug are sketchy, but some can be found at
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=70060 on pages 4, 5 and 6.
There's a small performance penalty associated with this workaround,
so it is only enabled when needed on the Atheros AR71xx platforms.

Unfortunately, this condition is impossible to detect at runtime
without MIPS specific ifdefs. Rather than cast an overly-broad net
like Linux/OpenWRT dues (which enables this workaround all the time on
MIPS32 platforms), we put this option in the kernel for just the
affected machines. Sam didn't like this aspect of the patch when he
reviewed it, and I'd love to hear sane proposals on how to fix it :)

Reviewed by: sam@


206496 12-Apr-2010 rpaulo

Remove svn:executable prop.


206457 10-Apr-2010 bschmidt

Add WPA-None support:
* WPA-None requires ap_scan=2:
The major difference between ap_scan=1 (default) and 2 is, that no
IEEE80211_IOC_SCAN* ioctls/functions are called, though, there is a
dependency on those. For example the call to wpa_driver_bsd_scan()
sets the interface UP, this never happens, therefore the interface
must be marked up in wpa_driver_bsd_associate(). IEEE80211_IOC_SSID
also is not called, which means that the SSID has not been set prior
to the IEEE80211_MLME_ASSOC call.
* WPA-None has no support for sequence number updates, it doesn't make
sense to check for replay violations..
* I had some crashes right after the switch to RUN state, issue is
that sc->sc_lastrs was not yet defined.

Approved by: rpaulo (mentor)
MFC after: 3 weeks


206420 09-Apr-2010 rpaulo

Setup the correct RX/TX chainmask when we play with the antenna
settings.

MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: iXsystems, inc


204645 03-Mar-2010 rpaulo

Introduce ath_hal_setInterrupts(), a macro for ah_setInterrupts().

Pointed out by: sam


204644 03-Mar-2010 rpaulo

Replace Id keyword with FreeBSD keyword and set the svn props correctly.
No functional change.


204579 02-Mar-2010 rpaulo

Couple of suggestions from Sam regarding latest commit:
o rename the new variables to comply with the naming scheme
o move the new variables to an AR5212 specific struct
o use ahp when available
o revert to previous ts_flags check


204521 01-Mar-2010 rpaulo

Properly setup the TX FIFO threshold for AR5416 based chipsets,
including the AR9285. This seems to fix some users's problems.

Submitted by: Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] <jorge at dti2.net>


204100 19-Feb-2010 deischen

Correct spelling of reseting (found while researching the "bb hang detected"
messages that are plaguing me). While I'm here, delete trailing whitespace.


203959 16-Feb-2010 rpaulo

Fix Kite and Merlin version check.


203933 15-Feb-2010 rpaulo

Fix KITE version check.

Obtained from: //depot/user/rpaulo/80211n/...


203930 15-Feb-2010 rpaulo

Bring back AR9285 support. This fixes most of the issues and should be
pretty usable.

MFC after: 1 month


203882 14-Feb-2010 rpaulo

Revert part of the 9285 support because it breaks the 9280 support. I'll
try to do the 9285 support without interfering with any other chipset
revisions support.


203751 10-Feb-2010 rpaulo

Fix typo in comment.

Pointed out by: danfe


203750 10-Feb-2010 rpaulo

't' stands for Turbo and is a valid mode, so fix previous commit.

Pointed out by: sam


203695 09-Feb-2010 avatar

Fixing compilation bustage by removing a stray comment fragment.


203683 08-Feb-2010 rpaulo

Add multicast key search support. This fixes corrupted mcast packets
when we have more than one hostap vap.

Submitted by: Russell Yount <russell.yount at gmail.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks


203682 08-Feb-2010 rpaulo

Fix TX power problems with AR9285.


203680 08-Feb-2010 rpaulo

Fix typo in comment.


203159 29-Jan-2010 rpaulo

Add support for the AR9285 chipset, which is found on many netbooks
available today.

This card is a low power 802.11bgn that only does 11n rates up to MCS 7
(that's 65 Mbps in 20Mhz mode and 135 in 40Mhz mode).
802.11n is not yet supported, but will be in the future.

The driver still has a problem regarding to the setting of txpower on
the card, so don't expect good performance yet. After fixing this
problem, an MFC is possible.

Special thanks to iXsystems and S Smirnov <tonve at yandex.ru> for help
with the purchase of a netbook with this card.

Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


203158 29-Jan-2010 rpaulo

Replace Id keyword with the FreeBSD keyword.


203156 29-Jan-2010 rpaulo

Replace Id keyword with the FreeBSD keyword.


202161 12-Jan-2010 gavin

Spell "Hz" correctly wherever it is user-visible.

PR: bin/142566
Submitted by: N.J. Mann njm njm.me.uk
Approved by: ed (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks


201758 07-Jan-2010 mbr

Remove extraneous semicolons, no functional changes.

Submitted by: Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>
MFC after: 1 week


201453 03-Jan-2010 imp

cardbus -> CardBus


199491 18-Nov-2009 rpaulo

Add WorldB SKU.

Reviewed by: sam
MFC after: 1 week


198988 06-Nov-2009 jhb

Take a step towards removing if_watchdog/if_timer. Don't explicitly set
if_watchdog/if_timer to NULL/0 when initializing an ifnet. if_alloc()
sets those members to NULL/0 already.


197948 10-Oct-2009 rpaulo

Atheros EEPROM version 4K. This version is mostly based on version 1.4.
This is needed by the upcoming AR9285 support.
Information on the layout gathered from Linux ath9k.

Not yet connected to the build.

Tested by: Eugeny Dzhurinsky


196970 08-Sep-2009 phk

Revert previous commit and add myself to the list of people who should
know better than to commit with a cat in the area.


196969 08-Sep-2009 phk

Add necessary include.


196935 07-Sep-2009 sam

remove extranous return

Submitted by: phk
MFC after: 1 week


196934 07-Sep-2009 sam

fix extraneous return that can cause a memory leak

Submitted by: phk
MFC after: 1 week


196933 07-Sep-2009 sam

correct typo that was a noop on 32-bit machines but a bug on 64-bit machines

Submitted by: phk


196717 31-Aug-2009 sam

On resume in sta mode program the beacon timers so when roaming (and
the previous ap is no longer in range) the device will deliver bmiss
interrupts and trigger the state machine. Also arrange to sync the
beacon timers on the next received beacon frame so that when we don't
roam we re-synchronize with the ap.

Tested by: trasz
MFC after: 1 week


196603 27-Aug-2009 sam

change default regdomain for thailand

Obtained from: linux-wireless@kernel.org


195809 21-Jul-2009 sam

Fix handling of AR_RX_FILTER_BSSID: write the shadow value for AR_MISC_MODE
so other register writes preserve the setting of AR_MISC_MODE_BSSID_MATCH_FORCE.

Reviewed by: rpaulo
Approved by: re (kib)


195807 21-Jul-2009 sam

track whether any mesh vaps are present to correctly setup the rx filter
when, for example, an ap vap is created first

Reviewed by: rpaulo
Approved by: re (kib)


195620 11-Jul-2009 rpaulo

Fix something bogus deletion that got it during mesh commit.

Approved by: re (implicit)


195618 11-Jul-2009 rpaulo

Implementation of the upcoming Wireless Mesh standard, 802.11s, on the
net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final next year.
This includes two main net80211 modules, ieee80211_mesh.c
which deals with peer link management, link metric calculation,
routing table control and mesh configuration and ieee80211_hwmp.c
which deals with the actually routing process on the mesh network.
HWMP is the mandatory routing protocol on by the mesh standard, but
others, such as RA-OLSR, can be implemented.

Authentication and encryption are not implemented.

There are several scripts under tools/tools/net80211/scripts that can be
used to test different mesh network topologies and they also teach you
how to setup a mesh vap (for the impatient: ifconfig wlan0 create
wlandev ... wlanmode mesh).

A new build option is available: IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH and it's enabled
by default on GENERIC kernels for i386, amd64, sparc64 and pc98.

Drivers that support mesh networks right now are: ath, ral and mwl.

More information at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh

Please note that this work is experimental. Also, please note that
bridging a mesh vap with another network interface is not yet supported.

Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project and to
Sam Leffler for his support.
Also, I would like to thank Gateworks Corporation for sending me a
Cambria board which was used during the development of this project.

Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: projects/mesh11s


195426 07-Jul-2009 sam

Fix ar5416 and later parts on big-endian platforms: setup the h/w byte
swizzler using the same technique used everywhere else.

Approved by: re (kib)


195418 06-Jul-2009 sam

Fix AR5416 and later parts when building with AH_DEBUG or similar defined:
always define OS_REG_UNSWAPPED and use it in ath_hal_reg_{read,write}.

Approved by: re (kib)


195135 28-Jun-2009 phk

Revert a local change that should not have been in the last commit.

Approved by: re (kib)


195134 28-Jun-2009 phk

There are a number of ways an application can check if there are
inbound data waiting on a filedescriptor, such as a pipe or a socket,
for instance by using select(2), poll(2), kqueue(2), ioctl(FIONREAD)
etc.

But we have no way of finding out if written data have yet to be
disposed of, for instance, transmitted (and ack'ed!) to some remote
host, or read by the applicantion at the far end of the pipe.

The closest we get, is calling shutdown(2) on a TCP socket in
non-blocking mode, but this has the undesirable sideeffect of
preventing future communication.

Add a complement to FIONREAD, called FIONWRITE, which returns the
number of bytes not yet properly disposed of. Implement it for
all sockets.

Background:

A HTTP server will want to time out connections, if no new request
arrives within a certain period after the last transmitted response
has actually been sent (and ack'ed).

For a busy HTTP server, this timeout can be subsecond duration.

In order to signal to a load-balancer that the connection is truly
dead, TCP_RST will be the preferred method, as this avoids the need
for a RTT delay for FIN handshaking, with a client which, surprisingly
often, no longer at the remote IP number.

If a slow, distant client is being served a response which is big
enough to fill the window, but small enough to fit in the socket
buffer, the write(2) call will return immediately.

If the session timeout is armed at that time, all bytes in the
response may not have been transmitted by the time it fires.

FIONWRITE allows the timeout to check that no data is outstanding
on the connection, before it TCP_RST's it.

Input & Idea from: rwatson
Approved by: re (kib)


195114 27-Jun-2009 sam

Add HAL_RX_FILTER_BSSID support (to disable bssid match):
o add HAL_CAP_BSSIDMATCH to identify parts that have the support for
disabling bssid match
o honor capability for set/get rx filter
o use HAL_CAP_BSSIDMATCH in driver to decide whether to use the bssid
match disable or fall back to promisc mode

Reviewed by: rpaulo
Approved by: re (rwatson)


195049 26-Jun-2009 rwatson

Use if_maddr_rlock()/if_maddr_runlock() rather than IF_ADDR_LOCK()/
IF_ADDR_UNLOCK() across network device drivers when accessing the
per-interface multicast address list, if_multiaddrs. This will
allow us to change the locking strategy without affecting our driver
programming interface or binary interface.

For two wireless drivers, remove unnecessary locking, since they
don't actually access the multicast address list.

Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 6 weeks


194135 13-Jun-2009 sam

purge HAL_TXSTAT_ALTRATE; you can figure this out by checking ts_finaltsi
and it cannot be used with MCS rate codes


193389 03-Jun-2009 sam

treat IEEE80211_S_CSA as a "running state"; this fixes
ap mode 11h channel switch announcements


193352 02-Jun-2009 sam

improve raw xmit failure handling


193351 02-Jun-2009 sam

count frag tx failures as an ifnet error


193350 02-Jun-2009 sam

fix comment


193349 02-Jun-2009 sam

restart tdma beacons after vap destroy


192468 20-May-2009 sam

Overhaul monitor mode handling:
o replace DLT_IEEE802_11 support in net80211 with DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO
and remove explicit bpf support from wireless drivers; drivers now
use ieee80211_radiotap_attach to setup shared data structures that
hold the radiotap header for each packet tx/rx
o remove rx timestamp from the rx path; it was used only by the tdma support
for debugging and was mostly useless due to it being 32-bits and mostly
unavailable
o track DLT_IEEE80211_RADIO bpf attachments and maintain per-vap and
per-com state when there are active taps
o track the number of monitor mode vaps
o use bpf tap and monitor mode vap state to decide when to collect radiotap
state and dispatch frames; drivers no longer explicitly directly check
bpf state or use bpf calls to tap frames
o handle radiotap state updates on channel change in net80211; drivers
should not do this (unless they bypass net80211 which is almost always
a mistake)
o update various drivers to be more consistent/correct in handling radiotap
o update ral to include TSF in radiotap'd frames
o add promisc mode callback to wi

Reviewed by: cbzimmer, rpaulo, thompsa


192401 19-May-2009 sam

correct HAL_INT_BNR comment, this bit is mapped directly the h/w now


192400 19-May-2009 sam

add TBTT interrupt support; this was added in Griffin so consumers should
check HAL_CAP_INTRMASK before using it

NB: didn't test 11n parts yet so supported only for 5212-class parts


192399 19-May-2009 sam

minor cleanup


192397 19-May-2009 sam

remove special handling for BNR; it is direct mapped to the harwdare so
can be added to HAL_INT_COMMON except on the 5210 where it doesn't exist


192396 19-May-2009 sam

add HAL_CAP_INTRMASK to return the set of interrupts supported by the device


192147 15-May-2009 imp

The module name convention is foo, not if_foo.


191909 08-May-2009 sam

kill more portability functions that are no longer useful


191908 08-May-2009 sam

kill unused OS_GETUPTIME


191866 07-May-2009 sam

optimize ath_tx_findrix: there's no need to walk the rates table as
sc_rixmap is an inverse map

NB: could eliminate the check for an invalid rate by filling in 0 for
invalid entries but the rate control modules use it to identify
bogus rates so leave it for now


191865 07-May-2009 sam

o cleanup checks for which vap combinations are permitted and what to
use for ic_opmode
o fixes the case where creating ahdemo+wds vaps caused ic_opmode to be
set to hostap


191864 06-May-2009 sam

add support for the Beacon Not Ready (BNR) interrupt
(available on 5211 and later)


191753 02-May-2009 sam

make superg/fast-frames state dynamically-allocated (and indirect off
the com structure instead of embedded); this reduces the overhead when
not configured and reduces visibility of the contents


191022 13-Apr-2009 sam

o eliminate a << in calculating the tx time for turbo mode by pre-multiplying
data in the phy tables
o correct the ctrl rate indices in the 5212 turbog phy table


191021 13-Apr-2009 sam

don't use caddr_t to match ieee80211_dump_pkt type; supplying the correct
one costs nothing


191020 13-Apr-2009 sam

o fix dynamic slave-side tdma slot length updating: we need to re-setup the
burst length in the tx q's
o remove re-config of the beaconq on update; it's not needed


191019 13-Apr-2009 sam

add a debug msg for when a fixed transmit rate is not applied because
it's not found in the sta's negotiated rate set


190986 13-Apr-2009 sam

remove reference to sc_tdmabintcnt; it was removed in r190848


190867 09-Apr-2009 sam

check the method pointer before invoking ah_eepromDetach as it can
be null if attach work fails before hooking up the eeprom support

Obtained from: madwifi


190848 08-Apr-2009 sam

remove unused struct member


190579 30-Mar-2009 sam

Hoist 802.11 encapsulation up into net80211:
o call ieee80211_encap in ieee80211_start so frames passed down to drivers
are already encapsulated
o remove ieee80211_encap calls in drivers
o fixup wi so it recreates the 802.3 head it requires from the 802.11
header contents
o move fast-frame aggregation from ath to net80211 (conditional on
IEEE80211_SUPPORT_SUPERG):
- aggregation is now done in ieee80211_start; it is enabled when the
packets/sec exceeds ieee80211_ffppsmin (net.wlan.ffppsmin) and frames
are held on a staging queue according to ieee80211_ffagemax
(net.wlan.ffagemax) to wait for a frame to combine with
- drivers must call back to age/flush the staging queue (ath does this
on tx done, at swba, and on rx according to the state of the tx queues
and/or the contents of the staging queue)
- remove fast-frame-related data structures from ath
- add ieee80211_ff_node_init and ieee80211_ff_node_cleanup to handle
per-node fast-frames state (we reuse 11n tx ampdu state)
o change ieee80211_encap calling convention to include an explicit vap
so frames coming through a WDS vap are recognized w/o setting M_WDS

With these changes any device able to tx/rx 3Kbyte+ frames can use fast-frames.

Reviewed by: thompsa, rpaulo, avatar, imp, sephe


190571 30-Mar-2009 sam

Remove ATH_SUPPORT_TDMA and use IEEE80211_SUPPORT_TDMA instead. It
doesn't make much sense to configure driver support w/o net80211.
Note this means ath now depends on opt_wlan.h.


190526 29-Mar-2009 sam

Eliminate ic_myaddr so changing the mac address of a device works correctly:
o remove ic_myaddr from ieee80211com
o change ieee80211_ifattach to take the mac address of the physical device
and use that to setup the lladdr.
o replace all references to ic_myaddr in drivers by IF_LLADDR
o related cleanups (e.g. kill dead code)

PR: kern/133178
Reviewed by: thompsa, rpaulo


190347 24-Mar-2009 sam

fix build w/ AH_DEBUG


190096 19-Mar-2009 sam

purge hal abi support; now that the hal is merged w/ the driver
we cannot be out of sync

MFC after: 1 week


189980 18-Mar-2009 sam

Minor cleanups of tdma protocol handling:
o break out version-related code to simplify rev'ing the protocol
o add parameter validation macros so checks that appear multiple places
are consistent (and easy to change)
o add protocol version check when looking for a scan candidate
o improve scan debug output format
o rewrite beacon update handling to calculate a bitmask of changed values
and pass that down through the driver callback so drivers can optimize work
o do slot bounds check before use when parsing received beacons


189747 12-Mar-2009 sam

preliminary ar9280 support:
o add 9280 attach that sets up ini, cal, etc.
o new rf backend for 9280 and later parts
o split ini setup and spur mitigation support out to methods
and provide 9280-specific support
o minor fixups to shared code to handle 9280-specific work

Obtained from: Atheros (ini values and some code)


189713 12-Mar-2009 sam

add asserts


189605 09-Mar-2009 sam

replace if_watchdog w/ private callout; probably can merge this with the
calibration work sometime in the future


189604 09-Mar-2009 sam

remove ar9160Detach; it does nothing


189575 09-Mar-2009 imp

remove now-redunant cardbus attachment.


189380 05-Mar-2009 sam

add a sysctl to ena/dis frobbing cca


188993 24-Feb-2009 sam

fix typo's


188980 24-Feb-2009 sam

move attach debug msg to the rf backend


188979 24-Feb-2009 sam

Add PCIE power control api:
o add ah_configPCIE and ah_disablePCIE for drivers to configure PCIE
power save operation (modeled after ath9k, may need changes)
o add private state flag to indicate if device is PCIE (replaces private
hack in 5212 code)
o add serdes programming ini bits for 5416 and later parts and setup
for each part (5416 and 9160 logic hand-crafted from existing routines);
5212 remains open-coded but is now hooked in via ah_configPCIE
o add PCIE workaround gunk
o add ar5416AttachPCIE for iodomatic code used by 5416 and later parts


188976 24-Feb-2009 sam

Fill in gpio support for 5416 and later parts:
o add output mux support
o gpio pin count is chip-dependent
o 9280 and 9285 do input handling different
o hookup gpio interrupts
o no need to save/restore soft led state around reset


188975 24-Feb-2009 sam

misc fixups, mostly for code not compiled yet


188974 24-Feb-2009 sam

5416 and later parts mux the gpio outputs; extend the api to include
a signal type that's used to select the appropriate mux


188973 24-Feb-2009 sam

move eeprom attach above first reset as the reset code checks the
eeprom contents for 9280 and later parts


188972 24-Feb-2009 sam

attach methods don't need to be public, make 'em static


188971 23-Feb-2009 sam

5416 and later parts get the radio rev differently; add ar5416GetRadioRev
to do it the right way


188970 23-Feb-2009 sam

remove private copies of gpio methods that were needed when the hal
was an independent entity


188968 23-Feb-2009 sam

print mac+rf part names; drop the printing 2ghz rf stuff (might come back)


188866 20-Feb-2009 sam

correct SIFS setting; there is a 2usec adjustment between the calculated
value and what the hardware requires (based on inspection of INI values)

Submitted by: Jiri Fojtasek <jiri.fojtasek@hlohovec.net>


188865 20-Feb-2009 sam

don't adjust core clk conversions for 1/2 and 1/4 rate channels; the
mac runs at full speed so doing this breaks conversion for ifs parameters

Submitted by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>


188783 19-Feb-2009 sam

remove private support for IEEE80211_MODE_HALF and IEEE80211_MODE_QUARTER
now that net80211 has them


188773 19-Feb-2009 sam

Cleanup ath_hal_computetxtime's handling of 1/2 and 1/4-width channels:
o mark phy type to indicate 1/2 or 1/4-rate operation
o use phy type instead of channel attributes to identify 1/2 and 1/4-rate
operation
o general cleanup of code including move phy constants to ah_internal.h

Eventually this code should go away and we should use the net0211 equivalents.


188771 19-Feb-2009 sam

add HAL_DIAG_SETREGS to write registers via the diag api


188770 19-Feb-2009 sam

whitespace


188557 13-Feb-2009 sam

add SIOCZATHSTATS ioctl to zero driver statistics


188555 13-Feb-2009 sam

add driver stat to count tx drops due to insufficient frag buffers


188549 13-Feb-2009 sam

Recognize AR5212_AR2317_REV2 in ar5312Probe()

Submitted by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>


188504 11-Feb-2009 sam

fix both instances of name

Pointy hat: sam


188500 11-Feb-2009 sam

fix typo in AH_CHIP definition

Submitted by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>


188499 11-Feb-2009 sam

gcc 4.3.2 examines getLowerUpperIndex() and concludes that it's not
guaranteed to initialize its two last arguments. Therefore, there is a
warning in the subsequent caller ar5416FillVpdTable(), which doesn't
initialize those arguments.

Change getLowerUpperIndex() to assign values to indexL and indexR even
in the case of assertion failure.

Submitted by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>


188465 11-Feb-2009 sam

don't do phantom beacon miss checking for s/w beacon miss handling,
this can mistakenly drop events that cause the s/w bmiss timer to
never get re-armed


188447 10-Feb-2009 sam

mark the CLR key installed for open auth stations such that it is reclaimed
when net80211 tears down station state; without this we leak keycache slots


188446 10-Feb-2009 sam

add hw.ath.bstuck to control the stuck beacon threshold


188445 10-Feb-2009 sam

on resume ah_curchan may be NULL if no channel change has been done;
workaround this by passing net80211's channel as we know it'll never
be null

Submitted by: trasz


188444 10-Feb-2009 sam

consolidate conditional code


188269 07-Feb-2009 sam

count stuck beacon events


188264 07-Feb-2009 sam

fix 11n channel construction


188263 07-Feb-2009 sam

add macro for future regulatory mods


188213 06-Feb-2009 sam

add PSB channels to the calibration list


188197 05-Feb-2009 sam

eliminate gainFCorrection; just have ar5212GetGainFCorrection return
the calculated value as it's only used in one place


188195 05-Feb-2009 sam

Minor packet drop improvements:
o change tdma packet drop msg when ack required to ATH_DEBUG_TDMA
(ATH_DEBUG_XMIT is too noisy)
o add a debug msg for raw packet drop due to interface down/invalid
o add stats for these two cases
o explain how another drop case is handled


188194 05-Feb-2009 sam

improve IQ cal debug msgs; in particular don't scare people by screaming
"MISGATED IQ CAL!" when it's not


188193 05-Feb-2009 sam

fill in ar5212ResetCalValid; reset the IQ valid flag on the channel
so IQ calibration will be started on the next periodic cal


188192 05-Feb-2009 sam

style


188191 05-Feb-2009 sam

replace r/w idiom with OS_REG_SET_BIT (to match other code)


188084 03-Feb-2009 sam

fix compilation w/ AH_DEBUG


188012 02-Feb-2009 sam

o make SAVE_CCK slightly less error prone by always writing the _flag
value used later by RESTORE_CCK
o swap arg order in RESTORE_CCK to slightly reduce cost


188011 02-Feb-2009 sam

restore variable initialization removed in r187831; this broke
the horrible SAVE/RESTORE_CCK macros used by swan/nala cards to
implement 11b using 11g


187831 28-Jan-2009 sam

Overhaul regulatory support:
o remove HAL_CHANNEL; convert the hal to use net80211 channels; this
mostly involves mechanical changes to variable names and channel
attribute macros
o gut HAL_CHANNEL_PRIVATE as most of the contents are now redundant
with the net80211 channel available
o change api for ath_hal_init_channels: no more reglass id's, no more outdoor
indication (was a noop), anM contents
o add ath_hal_getchannels to have the hal construct a channel list without
altering runtime state; this is used to retrieve the calibration list for
the device in ath_getradiocaps
o add ath_hal_set_channels to take a channel list and regulatory data from
above and construct internal state to match (maps frequencies for 900MHz
cards, setup for CTL lookups, etc)
o compact the private channel table: we keep one private channel
per frequency instead of one per HAL_CHANNEL; this gives a big
space savings and potentially improves ani and calibration by
sharing state (to be seen; didn't see anything in testing); a new config
option AH_MAXCHAN controls the table size (default to 96 which
was chosen to be ~3x the largest expected size)
o shrink ani state and change to mirror private channel table (one entry per
frequency indexed by ic_devdata)
o move ani state flags to private channel state
o remove country codes; use net80211 definitions instead
o remove GSM regulatory support; it's no longer needed now that we
pass in channel lists from above
o consolidate ADHOC_NO_11A attribute with DISALLOW_ADHOC_11A
o simplify initial channel list construction based on the EEPROM contents;
we preserve country code support for now but may want to just fallback
to a WWR sku and dispatch the discovered country code up to user space
so the channel list can be constructed using the master regdomain tables
o defer to net80211 for max antenna gain
o eliminate sorting of internal channel table; now that we use ic_devdata
as an index, table lookups are O(1)
o remove internal copy of the country code; the public one is sufficient
o remove AH_SUPPORT_11D conditional compilation; we always support 11d
o remove ath_hal_ispublicsafetysku; not needed any more
o remove ath_hal_isgsmsku; no more GSM stuff
o move Conformance Test Limit (CTL) state from private channel to a lookup
using per-band pointers cached in the private state block
o remove regulatory class id support; was unused and belongs in net80211
o fix channel list construction to set IEEE80211_CHAN_NOADHOC,
IEEE80211_CHAN_NOHOSTAP, and IEEE80211_CHAN_4MSXMIT
o remove private channel flags CHANNEL_DFS and CHANNEL_4MS_LIMIT; these are
now set in the constructed net80211 channel
o store CHANNEL_NFCREQUIRED (Noise Floor Required) channel attribute in one
of the driver-private flag bits of the net80211 channel
o move 900MHz frequency mapping into the hal; the mapped frequency is stored
in the private channel and used throughout the hal (no more mapping in the
driver and/or net80211)
o remove ath_hal_mhz2ieee; it's no longer needed as net80211 does the
calculation and available in the net80211 channel
o change noise floor calibration logic to work with compacted private channel
table setup; this may require revisiting as we no longer can distinguish
channel attributes (e.g. 11b vs 11g vs turbo) but since the data is used
only to calculate status data we can live with it for now
o change ah_getChipPowerLimits internal method to operate on a single channel
instead of all channels in the private channel table
o add ath_hal_gethwchannel to map a net80211 channel to a h/w frequency
(always the same except for 900MHz channels)
o add HAL_EEBADREG and HAL_EEBADCC status codes to better identify regulatory
problems
o remove CTRY_DEBUG and CTRY_DEFAULT enum's; these come from net80211 now
o change ath_hal_getwirelessmodes to really return wireless modes supported
by the hardware (was previously applying regulatory constraints)
o return channel interference status with IEEE80211_CHANSTATE_CWINT (should
change to a callback so hal api's can take const pointers)
o remove some #define's no longer needed with the inclusion of
<net80211/_ieee80211.h>

Sponsored by: Carlson Wireless


187800 27-Jan-2009 sam

change ic_getradiocaps driver callback to include the max # channels
so callers know the size of the array passed down


187611 23-Jan-2009 sam

fix return status handling by ar5XXXReset; this is the reason the
driver sometimes reports reset failed w/ status 0


187608 23-Jan-2009 sam

don't run the calibration code if scanning, we won't be on the home channel


187510 21-Jan-2009 sam

correct typo that left programmed sifs time in the slot time
(to be applied on subsequent resets)

Submitted by: Jiri Fojtasek <jiri.fojtasek@hlohovec.net>


187345 16-Jan-2009 sam

export PSB frequencies


187129 13-Jan-2009 sam

On some platforms touching the bb registers when the phy is powered
down will cause a fault. Check the phy power state before possibly
reading from the bb, this can happen as ar5212Reset intentionally
calls ar5212GetRfgain before bringing the bb out of reset (but we
do it here and not in the caller to guard against other possible uses).


186904 08-Jan-2009 sam

TDMA support for long distance point-to-point links using ath devices:
o add net80211 support for a tdma vap that is built on top of the
existing adhoc-demo support
o add tdma scheduling of frame transmission to the ath driver; it's
conceivable other devices might be capable of this too in which case
they can make use of the 802.11 protocol additions etc.
o add minor bits to user tools that need to know: ifconfig to setup and
configure, new statistics in athstats, and new debug mask bits

While the architecture can support >2 slots in a TDMA BSS the current
design is intended (and tested) for only 2 slots.

Sponsored by: Intel


186879 07-Jan-2009 sam

correct fixed rate handling; the rixmap was changed a while back
to be indexed by the ieee rate code


186806 06-Jan-2009 sam

remove the ath_rate module dependency; it's all bundled


186804 06-Jan-2009 sam

remove module glue, it's not used any more


186333 19-Dec-2008 sam

add FreeBSD property


186332 19-Dec-2008 sam

Correct 5212 ani support so that max noise immunity, spur immunity, and
step levels are used.

Noticed by: Jiri Fojtasek <jiri.fojtasek@hlohovec.net>
Reviewed by: rpaulo


186098 15-Dec-2008 sam

fix ini setup

Submitted by: Jiri Fojtasek <jiri.fojtasek@hlohovec.net>


186020 13-Dec-2008 sam

o remove dead code
o fix AH_RF macro expansion to be as intended (worked before unintentionally)

Obtained from: netbsd


186019 13-Dec-2008 sam

remove dead code

Obtained from: netbsd


186018 13-Dec-2008 sam

add const

Obtained from: netbsd


186017 13-Dec-2008 sam

fix static const order

Obtained from: netbsd


186016 13-Dec-2008 sam

fix static const order

Obtained from: netbsd


186015 13-Dec-2008 sam

remove duplicate case

Obtained from: netbsd


186014 13-Dec-2008 sam

remove conflicting decl

Obtained from: netbsd


185907 11-Dec-2008 sam

add missing break

Coverity ID: 4159


185906 11-Dec-2008 sam

add missing break

Coverity ID: 4151


185745 07-Dec-2008 sam

honor IEEE80211_BPF_CRYPTO for raw xmit; fixes shared key auth in sta mode

PR: kern/129022


185744 07-Dec-2008 sam

New periodic calibration scheme needed for 11n parts that have
multiple algorithms and potentially collect multiple samples.
Instead of a single calibration interval we now have short and long
intervals; the long interval roughly corresponds to the previous
single interval. The short interval is used to speedup collection
of samples and happens much quicker. We make calls using the short
interval until we're told the calibration work is complete at which
point we fallback to the long interval. In addition there is a
much longer reset interval used to flush all calibration state and
cause everthing to start anew.

With these changes you can also disable calibration entirely by
setting the long interval to zero.


185522 01-Dec-2008 sam

Switch to ath hal source code. Note this removes the ath_hal
module; the ath module now brings in the hal support. Kernel
config files are almost backwards compatible; supplying

device ath_hal

gives you the same chip support that the binary hal did but you
must also include

options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416

to enable the extended format descriptors used by 11n parts.
It is now possible to control the chip support included in a
build by specifying exactly which chips are to be supported
in the config file; consult ath_hal(4) for information.


185521 01-Dec-2008 sam

import ath hal


185490 30-Nov-2008 sam

cover up sun4v namespace pollution


185482 30-Nov-2008 sam

Major overhaul:
o eliminate private state indexed by 802.11 rate codes; use the hal's
rate tables directly to get the same info
o calculate a mask of operational rates to optimize lookups and checks
(instead of using for loops and similar)
o optimize size bin operations
o ignore rates marked as "do not use" in the hal phy tables
o fix bug that caused upshifting to break in 11g once the rate dropped
below 11Mb/s
o add more intelligent multi-rate tx schedules
o add support for 1/2 and 1/4 width channels
o add dev.ath.X.sample_stats sysctl to dump runtime statistics to the console
(needs to go up to a user app)
o export more tuning knobs via sysctls (still a couple of magic constants)


185481 30-Nov-2008 sam

sync w/ p4 branch


185480 30-Nov-2008 sam

some of the 11n parts can hang under certain conditions without
necessary workarounds, add code to detect these hangs and distinguish
them from other events; note this code is only invoked for anomalous
conditions and (at the moment) is a noop because the hang detection
code is in a new hal that's coming shortly


185479 30-Nov-2008 sam

add frequency mapping for the Zcomax GZ-901


185243 24-Nov-2008 sam

print the extended tx/rx descriptor for 5416 and later parts


185242 24-Nov-2008 sam

nuke special handling of RXORN interrupt; the hal marks the FATAL
bit in the interrupt status when RXORN is hit and the chip requires
a reset so our special handling was causing useless resets


184480 30-Oct-2008 sam

Fix checks for fast frames negotiation. ni_ath_flags holds the
capabilities reported by the ap. These need to be cross-checked
against the local configuration in the vap. Previously we were
only checking the ap capabilities which meant that if an ap reported
it was ff-capable but we were not setup to use them we'd try to do
ff aggregation and drop the frame.

There are a number of problems to be fixed here but applying this
fix immediately as the problem causes all traffic to stop (and has
not workaround).

Reported by: Ashish Shukla


184369 27-Oct-2008 sam

prepare for a new hal


184368 27-Oct-2008 sam

o With the addition of HT rates the set of h/w codes has a much wider range
making the use of sc_hwmap to do direct mapping impractical. Switch to
indexing by the rate index instead of the rate code and adjust associated
state and logic appropriately. This has several benefits including
simplification of the led code.
o fix radiotap capture of HT rates
o fix conditional compilation of HT radiotap support to be based on the
hal having 5416 support; not the ABI version as hal builds may or may
not include 5416 support


184366 27-Oct-2008 sam

prefer #define to naked constant


184365 27-Oct-2008 sam

fix handling of HT rates; these overlap legacy rates and need to be
marked as MCS in the inverse mapping table


184364 27-Oct-2008 sam

add hack to deal with Ubiquiti XR9 cards, they have a different mapping
between 900MHz and 2.4GHz frequencies than SR9 cards; they are distinguished
by different country codes


184361 27-Oct-2008 sam

install bssid for ahdemo mode too


184360 27-Oct-2008 sam

fix comment


184359 27-Oct-2008 sam

correct callback status parameter; only indicate success when an ACK was
received


184358 27-Oct-2008 sam

Fixup statistics:
o update tx rssi data only when an ACK was received
o return tx rssi from sampled data instead of the last frame
o track noise floor
o return rx rssi and noise floor (was broken)


184357 27-Oct-2008 sam

update the sta inactivity timer only if we actually received an ACK


184356 27-Oct-2008 sam

Regdomain fixups:
o pass country code, outdoor indication, and ecm mode into the hal
when requesting a channel list
o add a console msg when regulatory setup fails
o add placeholder code to map between Atheros sku's and 802.11 sku's
that handles only the debug country code used to unlock the full
channel list (to be used only for debugging)
o fix multiple instances of mismapping the 802.11 location to the
outdoor indication (anywhere may be outdoor also)


184355 27-Oct-2008 sam

add regdomain debug msgs


184354 27-Oct-2008 sam

add sys.dev.ath.X.intmit knob to enable/disable ANI
(the intmit name is historical)


184353 27-Oct-2008 sam

shuffle debug setup to simplify debugging events during attach


184351 27-Oct-2008 sam

rename bf_flags to bf_txflags in preparation for the addition of flags
separate from the tx descriptor flags currently recorded


184350 27-Oct-2008 sam

use the ic's opmode instead of our hal equivalent to check for adhoc mode;
they are always the same


184349 27-Oct-2008 sam

intercept IEEE80211_IOC_TXPOWER and service tx power changes immediately


184348 27-Oct-2008 sam

move complaints about bad rate codes up a level so we can print
the h/w rate code and other useful info


184347 27-Oct-2008 sam

remove driver-private equivalent of ni_txparms; it's now superfluous


184346 27-Oct-2008 sam

now that the new association callback is used when joining a bss we can
eliminate the ath_rate_newassoc callback and associated code


184345 27-Oct-2008 sam

o use the new association callback to notify the driver when joining a bss
in sta and adhoc modes; this should've been done forever ago as most all
drivers use this hook to set per-station transmit parameters such as for
tx rate control
o adjust drivers to remove explicit calls to the driver newassoc method


184063 19-Oct-2008 sam

fix static key wep; r183248 caused drivers to be called for keys to be
assigned to slots in the global key table but ath_key_alloc was not
updated to handle that


183248 21-Sep-2008 sam

Crypto api changes:
o don't use the key index to identify when the driver has been
asked to allocate a key slot, use an explicit flag; allows
drivers to force s/w fallback for entries in the global table
o change callback api to allocate driver resources for a crypto key:
- de-const the key parameter so drivers can muck with the flags
- on callback failure don't automatically try to setup s/w crypto;
instead the driver must now mark the key entry for s/w crypto and
the caller will re-attach the cipher module

NB: api change permits drivers more control over fallback to s/w
crypto (e.g. based on a limited number of h/w key slots)


183222 21-Sep-2008 sam

fix compilation on 64-bit platform w/ ATH_DEBUG


183221 21-Sep-2008 sam

fix memory smash on lp64 platforms; mostly noticeable in user mode
as being unable to associate


182893 09-Sep-2008 rpaulo

Update for new HAL.

Reviewed by: sam


179643 07-Jun-2008 sam

Change the calling convention for ic_node_alloc to deal with
some longstanding issues:
o pass the vap since it's now the "coin of the realm" and required
to do things like set initial tx parameters in private node
state for use prior to association
o pass the mac address as cards that maintain outboard station
tables require this to create an entry (e.g. in ibss mode)
o remove the node table reference, we only have one node table
and it's unlikely this will change so this is not needed to
find the com structure


179467 31-May-2008 sam

5416 and similar chips grew another region in the pci clock domain
where register accesses do not pass through the byte-lane hardware;
extend the register op macros to deal with this

MFC after: 1 week


179402 29-May-2008 sam

correct rx radiotap channel flags construction for 11n frames


179401 29-May-2008 sam

Cleanup power handling and fix suspend/resume:
o do not put the chip into full sleep in ath_stop as it gains
nothing and causes many parts to hang in ath_detach because we
may touch the chip during vap teardown; this may also fix issues
with unloading the module
o add a note in ath_detach to explain ath_hal_detach puts the
chip in low power mode; this is useful to know as it means
unloading the module will place a pci device in the lowest
possible power state
o leave an #ifdef notyet marker for powering down the chip when
a device is marked down; we can't do that until we handle all
the ways the driver may be entered and touch the chip
o fix resume by reloading the h/w key cache as it's been clobbered
(for pci) by the socket being powered off; for station mode we
directly stop+init the chip and then simulate a beacon miss to
get the upper layers sync'd up; for other configs we must brute
force stop+start the vaps so they go through the state machine


179400 28-May-2008 sam

close a race on detach by reordering bpfdetach and taskqueue_free


179399 28-May-2008 sam

send EAPOL frames at the same rate used for mgt frames


178957 12-May-2008 sam

Minor cleanup of vap create work:
o add IEEE80211_C_STA capability to indicate sta mode is supported
(was previously assumed) and mark drivers as capable
o add ieee80211_opcap array to map an opmode to the equivalent capability bit
o move IEEE80211_C_OPMODE definition to where capabilities are defined so it's
clear it should be kept in sync (on future additions)
o check device capabilities in clone create before trying to create a vap;
this makes driver checks unneeded
o make error codes return on failed clone request unique
o temporarily add console printfs on clone request failures to aid in
debugging; these will move under DIAGNOSTIC or similar before release


178752 03-May-2008 sam

o unbreak handling of TKIP tx-only keys for splitmic chips
o yank compat support for hal's older than 0.9.20.3; leave a
CTASSERT in place just in case


178751 03-May-2008 sam

add back sysctl's to display the regdomain and country code from eeprom;
useful for debugging


178704 01-May-2008 thompsa

Unify all the wifi *_ioctl routines
- Limit grabbing the lock to SIOCSIFFLAGS.
- Move ieee80211_start_all() to SIOCSIFFLAGS.
- Remove SIOCSIFMEDIA as it is not useful.
- Limit ether_ioctl to only SIOCGIFADDR. SIOCSIFADDR and SIOCSIFMTU have no
affect as there is no input/output path in the vap parent. The vap code
will handle the reinit of the mac address changes.
- Split off ndis_ioctl_80211 as it was getting too different to wired devices.

This fixes a copyout while locked and a lock recursion.

Reviewed by: sam


178696 30-Apr-2008 sam

remove old code to handle mcast address changes; this is all done through
net80211 and pushed into the driver through non-ioctl callbacks


178627 27-Apr-2008 sam

restore the hal's channel list when doing getradiocaps so it's in sync with
the 802.11 layer's list


178354 20-Apr-2008 sam

Multi-bss (aka vap) support for 802.11 devices.

Note this includes changes to all drivers and moves some device firmware
loading to use firmware(9) and a separate module (e.g. ral). Also there
no longer are separate wlan_scan* modules; this functionality is now
bundled into the wlan module.

Supported by: Hobnob and Marvell
Reviewed by: many
Obtained from: Atheros (some bits)


177502 22-Mar-2008 sam

(finally) add the hal status to the diagnostic generated after
a failed ath_hal_reset call

MFC after: 3 days


175414 17-Jan-2008 sam

promote ath_defrag to m_collapse (and retire private+unused
m_collapse from cxgb)

Reviewed by: pyun, jhb, kmacy
MFC after: 2 weeks


172900 23-Oct-2007 kevlo

- Use pci_enable_busmaster() to turn on busmaster.
- Don't test memory/port status and emit an error message; the PCI bus
will do this.

Reviewed by: sam


172620 13-Oct-2007 sam

revert 1.18: the negotiated rate set may not match the hal
rate tables, so using the hal's rateCodeToIndex array
will produce wrong indices for the negotiated rate set

MFC after: 3 days


172211 17-Sep-2007 sam

Update beacon handling to sync w/ vap code base:
o add driver callback to handle notification of beacon changes;
this is required for devices that manage beacon frames themselves
(devices must override the default handler which does nothing)
o move beacon update-related flags from ieee80211com to the beacon
offsets storage (or handle however a driver wants)
o expand beacon offsets structure with members needed for 11h/dfs
and appie's
o change calling convention for ieee80211_beacon_alloc and
ieee80211_beacon_update
o add overlapping bss support for 11g; requires driver to pass
beacon frames from overlapping bss up to net80211 which is not
presently done by any driver
o move HT beacon contents update to a routine in the HT code area

Reviewed by: avatar, thompsa, sephe
Approved by: re (blanket wireless)


172209 17-Sep-2007 sam

convert hardware rate codes to IEEE rate codes with a lookup table
instead of a linear search

Reviewed by: sephe, avatar
Approved by: re (blanket wireless)
MFC after: 2 weeks


172206 17-Sep-2007 sam

bandaid Dynamic Turbo A operation with old hal's: HAL_MODE_108A
does not have a rate table in older hal's so if we scan such a
channel the driver will hit an assertion or crash; for old hal's
fallback to using the static turbo rate table for this mode
(not correct but good enough for now given none of the rate
control algorithms understand how to switch between base+boost)

Approved by: re (blanket wireless)


172205 17-Sep-2007 sam

fix led blinking in RUN state: the addition of the CAC state moved
IEEE80211_S_RUN and broke the array lookup used to find the LED flags

Approved by: re (blanket wireless)


172060 05-Sep-2007 sam

Add missing bits that made bg scanning lame:
o update ic_lastdata to reflect time of last outbound frame
o outbound traffic must preempt/cancel bg scanning to avoid delays

This stuff was somehow missed in the initial import.

Reviewed by: thompsa, avatar, sephe (earlier version)
Approved by: re (blanket wireless)


171744 06-Aug-2007 rwatson

Remove the now-unused NET_{LOCK,UNLOCK,ASSERT}_GIANT() macros, which
previously conditionally acquired Giant based on debug.mpsafenet. As that
has now been removed, they are no longer required. Removing them
significantly simplifies error-handling in the socket layer, eliminated
quite a bit of unwinding of locking in error cases.

While here clean up the now unneeded opt_net.h, which previously was used
for the NET_WITH_GIANT kernel option. Clean up some related gotos for
consistency.

Reviewed by: bz, csjp
Tested by: kris
Approved by: re (kensmith)


171613 27-Jul-2007 rwatson

First in a series of changes to remove the now-unused Giant compatibility
framework for non-MPSAFE network protocols:

- Remove debug_mpsafenet variable, sysctl, and tunable.
- Remove NET_NEEDS_GIANT() and associate SYSINITSs used by it to force
debug.mpsafenet=0 if non-MPSAFE protocols are compiled into the kernel.
- Remove logic to automatically flag interrupt handlers as non-MPSAFE if
debug.mpsafenet is set for an INTR_TYPE_NET handler.
- Remove logic to automatically flag netisr handlers as non-MPSAFE if
debug.mpsafenet is set.
- Remove references in a few subsystems, including NFS and Cronyx drivers,
which keyed off debug_mpsafenet to determine various aspects of their own
locking behavior.
- Convert NET_LOCK_GIANT(), NET_UNLOCK_GIANT(), and NET_ASSERT_GIANT into
no-op's, as their entire behavior was determined by the value in
debug_mpsafenet.
- Alias NET_CALLOUT_MPSAFE to CALLOUT_MPSAFE.

Many remaining references to NET_.*_GIANT() and NET_CALLOUT_MPSAFE are still
present in subsystems, and will be removed in followup commits.

Reviewed by: bz, jhb
Approved by: re (kensmith)


171015 24-Jun-2007 sam

Process tx callbacks when draining the tx q; this fixes a problem
where a device timeout that occurs with a mgt frame on the tx q
will leave the net80211 layer w/o any way to make progress.

Reviewed by: thompsa, sephe
Approved by: re (hrs)


170530 11-Jun-2007 sam

Update 802.11 wireless support:
o major overhaul of the way channels are handled: channels are now
fully enumerated and uniquely identify the operating characteristics;
these changes are visible to user applications which require changes
o make scanning support independent of the state machine to enable
background scanning and roaming
o move scanning support into loadable modules based on the operating
mode to enable different policies and reduce the memory footprint
on systems w/ constrained resources
o add background scanning in station mode (no support for adhoc/ibss
mode yet)
o significantly speedup sta mode scanning with a variety of techniques
o add roaming support when background scanning is supported; for now
we use a simple algorithm to trigger a roam: we threshold the rssi
and tx rate, if either drops too low we try to roam to a new ap
o add tx fragmentation support
o add first cut at 802.11n support: this code works with forthcoming
drivers but is incomplete; it's included now to establish a baseline
for other drivers to be developed and for user applications
o adjust max_linkhdr et. al. to reflect 802.11 requirements; this eliminates
prepending mbufs for traffic generated locally
o add support for Atheros protocol extensions; mainly the fast frames
encapsulation (note this can be used with any card that can tx+rx
large frames correctly)
o add sta support for ap's that beacon both WPA1+2 support
o change all data types from bsd-style to posix-style
o propagate noise floor data from drivers to net80211 and on to user apps
o correct various issues in the sta mode state machine related to handling
authentication and association failures
o enable the addition of sta mode power save support for drivers that need
net80211 support (not in this commit)
o remove old WI compatibility ioctls (wicontrol is officially dead)
o change the data structures returned for get sta info and get scan
results so future additions will not break user apps
o fixed tx rate is now maintained internally as an ieee rate and not an
index into the rate set; this needs to be extended to deal with
multi-mode operation
o add extended channel specifications to radiotap to enable 11n sniffing

Drivers:
o ath: add support for bg scanning, tx fragmentation, fast frames,
dynamic turbo (lightly tested), 11n (sniffing only and needs
new hal)
o awi: compile tested only
o ndis: lightly tested
o ipw: lightly tested
o iwi: add support for bg scanning (well tested but may have some
rough edges)
o ral, ural, rum: add suppoort for bg scanning, calibrate rssi data
o wi: lightly tested

This work is based on contributions by Atheros, kmacy, sephe, thompsa,
mlaier, kevlo, and others. Much of the scanning work was supported by
Atheros. The 11n work was supported by Marvell.


170375 06-Jun-2007 sam

update copyrights to 2007 and convert to be 2-clause bsd-only


170229 03-Jun-2007 sam

disable taskqueue_drain calls on transition to INIT state; we need to
find another way to do this as we cannot hold the softc mtx across
these calls


170104 29-May-2007 sam

Drain task q items when transitioning to INIT state; this closes a
race seen on smp laptops when suspending where the rx task can be
entered after the interface is detach'd.

NB: use of taskqueue_drain while holding the softc mutex is problematic

Submitted by: ambrisko
MFC after: 1 month


170011 27-May-2007 sam

silence some compiler complaints


168967 23-Apr-2007 sam

make dev.ath.N.ledpin have an immediate effect

PR: kern/111810
Submitted by: Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk>
MFC after: 1 week


168860 19-Apr-2007 sephe

- Fix mbuf/node leakage in drivers' raw_xmit().
- For ural(4):
o Fix node leakage in ural_start(), if ural_tx_mgt() fails.
o Fix mbuf leakage in ural_tx_{mgt,data}(), if usbd_transfer() fails.
o In ural_tx_{mgt,data}(), set ural_tx_data.{m,ni} to NULL, if
usbd_transfer() fails, so they will not be freed again in ural_stop().

Approved by: sam (mentor)


168589 10-Apr-2007 rwatson

Remove unnecessary suser() check in the sysctl to set up ath_hal
logging: the sysctl framework will already have checked for privilege
if a sysctl value is being set.

Discussed a long time ago with: sam


167252 05-Mar-2007 sam

Change mtx's to use the formulated name as type so witness does not
complain on nested tx q lock acquisitions when processing the cab q.

MFC after: 2 weeks


167251 05-Mar-2007 sam

Kick tx after processing rx'd frames; this fixes latency issues
for processing frames from the power save queue when operating
in ap mode. This is especially noticeable for realtime data going
to devices like voip phones.

Submitted by: "J.R. Oldroyd" <jr@opal.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks


166955 24-Feb-2007 sam

don't call ath_reset when processing sysctl's before the device
is marked running; we don't have all the needed state in place

Noticed by: Hugo Silva <hugo@barafranca.com>
MFC after: 1 week


166954 24-Feb-2007 sam

set the antenna switch when fixing the tx antenna using the
dev.ath.X.txantenna sysctl; this is typically what folks
want but beware this has the side effect of disabling rx
diversity

MFC after: 2 weeks


166901 23-Feb-2007 piso

o break newbus api: add a new argument of type driver_filter_t to
bus_setup_intr()

o add an int return code to all fast handlers

o retire INTR_FAST/IH_FAST

For more info: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=465712+0+current/freebsd-current

Reviewed by: many
Approved by: re@


166165 21-Jan-2007 marius

Change the remainder of the drivers for DMA'ing devices enabled in the
sparc64 GENERIC and the sound device drivers known working on sparc64
to use bus_get_dma_tag() to obtain the parent DMA tag so we can get rid
of the sparc64_root_dma_tag kludge eventually. Except for ath(4), sk(4),
stge(4) and ti(4) these changes are runtime tested (unless I booted up
the wrong kernels again...).


166016 15-Jan-2007 sam

add compat shim for ath_hal_isgsmsku until the new hal gets committed


166014 15-Jan-2007 sam

save changes for handling 5416/5418 parts


166013 15-Jan-2007 sam

Add initial support for 900MHz cards like the Ubiquiti SR9:
o eliminate assumptions that half/quarter rate channels on exist in 11a
o handle frequency mapping between hal and net80211; hal gives us freq's
in the range 2422..2437 that we remap

MFC after: 1 month


165571 27-Dec-2006 sam

Add half/quarter rate 11a channel support:
o change handling of regdomain-related mib knobs so they can be set
post-attach: regdomain, countrycode, outdoor, and xchanmode; the
hal will not permit changing the regdomain but we expose it for now
o on regdomain/countrycode change recalculate the channel list and
push it to the net80211 layer (NB: looks to need more tweaking)
o setup rate tables for half/quarter rate channels
o honor half/quarter rate channel configs when changing channels
o honor half/quarter rate channel configs when setting the slot time
o use hack/nonstandard channel numbering scheme for the public safety
band to avoid overlapping 2.4G channels on dual-band cards
o remove setup of ic_sup_rates; the net80211 layer can do this for us
and it simplifies handling of half/quarter rate channels

Tested only in Public Safety Band with cards that have RF5112.


165185 13-Dec-2006 sam

Track v0.9.20.3 hal:

o no more ds_vdata in tx/rx descriptors
o split h/w tx/rx descriptor from s/w status
o as part of the descriptor split change the rate control module api
so the ath_buf is passed in to the module so it can fetch both
descriptor and status information as needed
o add some const poisoning

Also for sample rate control algorithm:

o split debug msgs (node, rate, any)
o uniformly bounds check rate indices (and in some cases correct checks)
o move array index ops to after bounds checking
o use final tsi from the status block instead of the h/w descriptor
o replace h/w descriptor struct's with proper mask+shift defs (this
doesn't belong here; everything is known by the driver and should
just be sent down so there's no h/w-specific knowledge)

MFC after: 1 month


164794 01-Dec-2006 sam

clarify shortcut return

Submitted by: cognet, kevlo
MFC after: 1 week


164598 24-Nov-2006 sam

mark tx/rx descriptors COHERENT; we do not sync changes so on
architectures like arm this is necessary

MFC after: 1 month


163187 09-Oct-2006 sam

correct diag request to fetch isr state on fatal interrupts

MFC after: 1 week


162413 18-Sep-2006 sam

o move ath hal os glue code from the hal to the driver: this code was
part of the hal distribution early on when the hal was built for
each os but it's been portable for a long time so move the os-specific
code out (and off the vendor branch)
o correct the copyright on ah_osdep.?; it was mistakenly given a
restricted license and not a dual-bsd/gpl license
o remove the module api definition as it was never used
o fixup include paths for move of ah_osdep.h

MFC after: 2 weeks


162410 18-Sep-2006 sam

Add support for newer parts that do not require separate keycache
entries for tx+rx mic keys. This requires a newer hal, but works
fine with the current hal in cvs.

MFC after: 2 weeks


162409 18-Sep-2006 sam

remove stub radar support; it's never been used and future
hal's will not include the calls (due to redesign)

MFC after: 1 week


161425 17-Aug-2006 imp

while (0); -> while (0) in multi-line macros


161187 10-Aug-2006 sam

o add noise floor to stats
o include current tx rate in stats so athstats gets a consistent
snapshot and doesn't have to make an extra ioctl
o record tx rate for raw frames

MFC after: 3 weeks


161102 08-Aug-2006 sam

check return value of ath_tx_dmasetup

Noticed by: yongari


160992 05-Aug-2006 sam

raw 802.11 packet transmit support

Joint work with: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>


160693 26-Jul-2006 sam

add missing \n's

Submitted by: avatar@
MFC after: 1 week


160692 26-Jul-2006 sam

check tim is present in the beacon before defer'ing the mcast buffer bit;
insures we don't do this when operating in adhoc mode

Submitted by: avatar@
MFC after: 1 week


159940 26-Jun-2006 sam

enable rx of control frames when in monitor mode

Submitted by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
MFC after: 1 week


159938 26-Jun-2006 sam

Close race in handling mcast traffic when operating as an ap with
stations in power save: add a new q where mcast frames are stashed
and on beacon update (at DTIM) move frames from the mcast q to the
cabq and start it. This ensures the cabq is only manipulated in
one place.

Sponsored by: Hobnob
MFC after: 2 weeks


159894 23-Jun-2006 sam

new stats

MFC after: 1 month


159383 07-Jun-2006 sam

bandaid type coercion for ia64

Submitted by: marcel


159290 05-Jun-2006 sam

move hal bus+tag externalization to the bus glue code where it belongs;
this is a noop on all current freebsd architectures

MFC after: 1 month


159183 02-Jun-2006 sam

add missed calls to bpf_peers_present


159180 02-Jun-2006 csjp

Fix the following bpf(4) race condition which can result in a panic:

(1) bpf peer attaches to interface netif0
(2) Packet is received by netif0
(3) ifp->if_bpf pointer is checked and handed off to bpf
(4) bpf peer detaches from netif0 resulting in ifp->if_bpf being
initialized to NULL.
(5) ifp->if_bpf is dereferenced by bpf machinery
(6) Kaboom

This race condition likely explains the various different kernel panics
reported around sending SIGINT to tcpdump or dhclient processes. But really
this race can result in kernel panics anywhere you have frequent bpf attach
and detach operations with high packet per second load.

Summary of changes:

- Remove the bpf interface's "driverp" member
- When we attach bpf interfaces, we now set the ifp->if_bpf member to the
bpf interface structure. Once this is done, ifp->if_bpf should never be
NULL. [1]
- Introduce bpf_peers_present function, an inline operation which will do
a lockless read bpf peer list associated with the interface. It should
be noted that the bpf code will pickup the bpf_interface lock before adding
or removing bpf peers. This should serialize the access to the bpf descriptor
list, removing the race.
- Expose the bpf_if structure in bpf.h so that the bpf_peers_present function
can use it. This also removes the struct bpf_if; hack that was there.
- Adjust all consumers of the raw if_bpf structure to use bpf_peers_present

Now what happens is:

(1) Packet is received by netif0
(2) Check to see if bpf descriptor list is empty
(3) Pickup the bpf interface lock
(4) Hand packet off to process

From the attach/detach side:

(1) Pickup the bpf interface lock
(2) Add/remove from bpf descriptor list

Now that we are storing the bpf interface structure with the ifnet, there is
is no need to walk the bpf interface list to locate the correct bpf interface.
We now simply look up the interface, and initialize the pointer. This has a
nice side effect of changing a bpf interface attach operation from O(N) (where
N is the number of bpf interfaces), to O(1).

[1] From now on, we can no longer check ifp->if_bpf to tell us whether or
not we have any bpf peers that might be interested in receiving packets.

In collaboration with: sam@
MFC after: 1 month


158366 08-May-2006 sam

quiet tindexbox complaints about passing BUS_SPACE_MAXADDR as
a bus_size_t to bus_dma_tag_create; when PAE is enabled this
does not work

Cluebat by: scottl
MFC after: 2 weeks


158341 06-May-2006 sam

force type coercion for bus tag+handle when calling ath_hal_attach
to ensure we match the type signature; we cannot assume HAL_BUS_TAG
and HAL_BUS_HANDLE correspond to bus_space_tag_t and bus_space_handle_t
(should probably do this for HAL_SOFTC too but leave that for now)

MFC after: 1 month


158298 05-May-2006 sam

correct type

MFC after: 2 weeks


158045 26-Apr-2006 sam

intercept public safety channels and do explicit mapping of freq->ieee
channel number since we're not ready at the net80211 layer to deal with them;
note this mapping has to match what's done in ieee80211_mhz2ieee

MFC after: 3 days


158035 25-Apr-2006 sam

honor fixed tx antenna when sending beacon frames

Submitted by: Michael Stevens (from netbsd)
MFC after: 1 week


157798 16-Apr-2006 sam

Improve ath_draintxq debug info: dump the packet as well
as the descriptor and handle the beacon q like other q's

MFC after: 1 month


157797 16-Apr-2006 sam

Unbreak cabq handling: check the s/w q, not the h/w q as the frames
have not been passed to the h/w yet. This remedies watchdog timeout
of buffered multicast frames in hostap mode.

While here eliminate an extraneous check; ieee80211_beacon_update sets
the tim bit based on ncabq != 0 so there's no reason to check it too.

Noticed by: Christophe Prevotaux


157438 03-Apr-2006 sam

o add opt_ath.h enable tweaking various config parameters for the driver
without modifying the source code
o default debug msgs and diag support to off

MFC after: 3 days


156463 09-Mar-2006 sam

correct ni_txrate when using a fixed rate; fixes current rate reporting

MFC after: 3 days


156073 27-Feb-2006 sam

backout 1.136 until we can resolve report that it causes output to stall


155991 24-Feb-2006 sam

fix a race whereby a tx descriptor might get reused before the hardware
is finished with it; this may only occur when the tx queue is setup as
dba-gated but since the fix is cheap apply it to all queues

while here make the queue depth signed for use in assertions

Reviewed by: apatti
MFC after: 2 weeks


155736 15-Feb-2006 sam

drop softc lock around copyin/copyout

MFC after: 2 weeks


155735 15-Feb-2006 sam

fix build w/o AR_DEBUG

MFC after: 2 weeks


155734 15-Feb-2006 sam

improve tx/rx buf printing routines

MFC after: 2 weeks


155733 15-Feb-2006 sam

add missing bit from 1.130


155732 15-Feb-2006 sam

o handle fatal errors directly instead of via the task queue
o temporarily dump some h/w state for diagnosis; this will be
removed once some issues are resolved

MFC after: 2 weeks


155731 15-Feb-2006 sam

use ath_hal_gettxintrtxqs so we only process h/w tx
queues that have an interrupt pending

MFC after: 2 weeks


155730 15-Feb-2006 sam

fixup comments


155729 15-Feb-2006 sam

close race between ath_tx_start and ath_tx_processq

Reviewed by: apatti
MFC after: 1 week


155609 13-Feb-2006 sam

fix comment and whitespace


155608 13-Feb-2006 sam

fix merge botch (duplicate processing of cabq for old cards)


155515 10-Feb-2006 sam

Update for rev 0.9.16.16 hal:
o add dfs+radar hooks; DFS is presently disabled in the hal
o channel and mode handling changes
o various api changes
o be more aggressive about iq calibration settling so ap mode
operation is better immediately after startup
o rfkill/rfsilent sysctl support
o tpc ack/cts sysctl support

MFC after: 2 weeks


155499 09-Feb-2006 sam

pad for future statistics

MFC after: 2 weeks


155498 09-Feb-2006 sam

Minor tx path cleanups:
o assume all data frames have been classified so there's no need
to check if QoS is being used, just fetch the wme priority from
the mbuf
o fix double counting of noack frames
o fix nearby comment

MFC after: 2 weeks


155497 09-Feb-2006 sam

correct handling of mbuf allocation failure when replenishing the rx list
(leave a printf for the moment, need to make a debug msg)

Obtained from: atheros
MFC after: 2 weeks


155496 09-Feb-2006 sam

Beacon timer setup fixes:
o pull nexttbtt forward in adhoc mode too
o resync beacon timers on joining a bss or ibss as the tstamp we
collected while scanning is almost certainly out of date

Note we may need to refine the ibss mode check in ath_recv_mgmt.

Reviewed by: avatar, dyoung
Obtained from: atheros
MFC after: 2 weeks


155495 09-Feb-2006 sam

only start the cab queue if there are frames to send

MFC after: 2 weeks


155494 09-Feb-2006 sam

debug fixups: reduce noise msgs, report channel flags on reset failure,
mark data+link fields in descriptor dumps

MFC after: 2 weeks


155492 09-Feb-2006 sam

Phantom beacon miss workaround: track the tsf of the last received
frame and if we get a beacon miss interrupt ignore it if we've received
a frame within the beacon miss interval. This should never trigger
and the handling at the net80211 layer should likewise deal with this
but it doesn't hurt and can suppress extranous probe request frames.
Note that we can legtimately get a bmiss when under heavy load.

MFC after: 2 weeks


155491 09-Feb-2006 sam

use a private task queue thread

MFC after: 2 weeks


155490 09-Feb-2006 sam

add adhoc demo mode support

MFC after: 2 weeks


155489 09-Feb-2006 sam

make regdomain sysctl r/w in case it's possible to do this in the future

MFC after: 2 weeks


155488 09-Feb-2006 sam

cleanup rate setup

MFC after: 2 weeks


155486 09-Feb-2006 sam

add tx99 hooks

MFC after: 2 weeks


155485 09-Feb-2006 sam

move hal statistics to softc; the per-node stats are overkill, they're
only used when operating in station mode

MFC after: 2 weeks


155484 09-Feb-2006 sam

lookup the protection tx rate index in the rate tables
instead of using a known value

MFC after: 2 weeks


155483 09-Feb-2006 sam

honor net80211 mcast tx rate

MFC after: 2 weeks


155482 09-Feb-2006 sam

craft unique names for tx q + buffer mtx's to help with interpreting ktr data

MFC after: 2 weeks


155481 09-Feb-2006 sam

allow the size of tx+rx buffer pools to be tuned

MFC after: 2 weeks


155480 09-Feb-2006 sam

lower try count on mgt (and ctl) frames to avoid clogging the tx queue
and loading the bss when operating in ap mode under load; adjust recognition
of multi-rate retry to match

MFC after: 2 weeks


155477 09-Feb-2006 sam

move mgt frame tx rate responsibility from the rate control modules
to the driver; this avoids redundant logic and will be necessary
for future additions

MFC after: 2 weeks


155476 09-Feb-2006 sam

sync with latest code in madwifi

Obtained from: madwifi
MFC after: 2 weeks


154735 23-Jan-2006 sam

track bmiss threshold change from time to frame count


154140 09-Jan-2006 sam

Update monitoring support:
o record tsf in tx+rx frames
o switch from raw rssi to dbm for signal data and record both
signal and noise floor data (hacked for now to assume a fixed
noise floor; is correct with new hal)
o add monpass sysctl to control which rx'd frames are passed
up with errors; especially useful to see frames with CRC errors
o mark 'd packets w/ a CRC error with radiotap's BADFCS flag

Also add placeholder code for calibrating the noise floor when
using newer hals.

Reviewed by: avatar
MFC after: 1 week


152448 15-Nov-2005 sam

nuke special handling to extend cts when bursting; it was race prone

MFC after: 7 days


152447 15-Nov-2005 sam

bandaid inconsistent state handling: the rate index map may be
stale when called to reset rate control state causing us to
pickup an invalid index, check for this and skip 'em (things
will eventually get fixed up so this is not harmful)


152315 11-Nov-2005 ru

- Store pointer to the link-level address right in "struct ifnet"
rather than in ifindex_table[]; all (except one) accesses are
through ifp anyway. IF_LLADDR() works faster, and all (except
one) ifaddr_byindex() users were converted to use ifp->if_addr.

- Stop storing a (pointer to) Ethernet address in "struct arpcom",
and drop the IFP2ENADDR() macro; all users have been converted
to use IF_LLADDR() instead.


150212 16-Sep-2005 ru

Fix "struct ifnet" leak on detach.


149006 12-Aug-2005 sam

correct CTS duration calculation; SIFS+ACK should use the xmit rate not
the rate for CTS

MFC after: 3 days
Obtained from: Atheros


148936 10-Aug-2005 sam

Clarify/fix handling of the current channel:
o add ic_curchan and use it uniformly for specifying the current
channel instead of overloading ic->ic_bss->ni_chan (or in some
drivers ic_ibss_chan)
o add ieee80211_scanparams structure to encapsulate scanning-related
state captured for rx frames
o move rx beacon+probe response frame handling into separate routines
o change beacon+probe response handling to treat the scan table
more like a scan cache--look for an existing entry before adding
a new one; this combined with ic_curchan use corrects handling of
stations that were previously found at a different channel
o move adhoc neighbor discovery by beacon+probe response frames to
a new ieee80211_add_neighbor routine

Reviewed by: avatar
Tested by: avatar, Michal Mertl
MFC after: 2 weeks


148887 09-Aug-2005 rwatson

Propagate rename of IFF_OACTIVE and IFF_RUNNING to IFF_DRV_OACTIVE and
IFF_DRV_RUNNING, as well as the move from ifnet.if_flags to
ifnet.if_drv_flags. Device drivers are now responsible for
synchronizing access to these flags, as they are in if_drv_flags. This
helps prevent races between the network stack and device driver in
maintaining the interface flags field.

Many __FreeBSD__ and __FreeBSD_version checks maintained and continued;
some less so.

Reviewed by: pjd, bz
MFC after: 7 days


148863 08-Aug-2005 sam

Split crypto tx+rx key indices and add a key index -> node mapping table:

Crypto changes:
o change driver/net80211 key_alloc api to return tx+rx key indices; a
driver can leave the rx key index set to IEEE80211_KEYIX_NONE or set
it to be the same as the tx key index (the former disables use of
the key index in building the keyix->node mapping table and is the
default setup for naive drivers by null_key_alloc)
o add cs_max_keyid to crypto state to specify the max h/w key index a
driver will return; this is used to allocate the key index mapping
table and to bounds check table loookups
o while here introduce ieee80211_keyix (finally) for the type of a h/w
key index
o change crypto notifiers for rx failures to pass the rx key index up
as appropriate (michael failure, replay, etc.)

Node table changes:
o optionally allocate a h/w key index to node mapping table for the
station table using the max key index setting supplied by drivers
(note the scan table does not get a map)
o defer node table allocation to lateattach so the driver has a chance
to set the max key id to size the key index map
o while here also defer the aid bitmap allocation
o add new ieee80211_find_rxnode_withkey api to find a sta/node entry
on frame receive with an optional h/w key index to use in checking
mapping table; also updates the map if it does a hash lookup and the
found node has a rx key index set in the unicast key; note this work
is separated from the old ieee80211_find_rxnode call so drivers do
not need to be aware of the new mechanism
o move some node table manipulation under the node table lock to close
a race on node delete
o add ieee80211_node_delucastkey to do the dirty work of deleting
unicast key state for a node (deletes any key and handles key map
references)

Ath driver:
o nuke private sc_keyixmap mechansim in favor of net80211 support
o update key alloc api

These changes close several race conditions for the ath driver operating
in ap mode. Other drivers should see no change. Station mode operation
for ath no longer uses the key index map but performance tests show no
noticeable change and this will be fixed when the scan table is eliminated
with the new scanning support.

Tested by: Michal Mertl, avatar, others
Reviewed by: avatar, others
MFC after: 2 weeks


148654 03-Aug-2005 rwatson

Modify device drivers supporting multicast addresses to lock if_addr_mtx
over iteration of their multicast address lists when synchronizing the
hardware address filter with the network stack-maintained list.

Problem reported by: Ed Maste (emaste at phaedrus dot sandvine dot ca>
MFC after: 1 week


148362 24-Jul-2005 sam

o fix setup of sc_diversity; the hal does not give us reliable
status after attach, only after a reset
o when setting diversity via the sysctl don't update sc_diversity
until we know the hal requested worked
o while here eliminate sc_hasdiversity and sc_hastpc; just query
the hal each time since these are the only places we need to know

MFC after: 3 days


148326 23-Jul-2005 sam

o move ath_sysctlattach down so variables it depends on are setup
o use any fixed tx antenna for beacons transmitted in adhoc mode

Submitted by: David Young
MFC after: 3 days


148307 22-Jul-2005 sam

simplify ic_newassoc callback

MFC after: 3 days


148306 22-Jul-2005 sam

simplify ieee80211_ibss_merge api

MFC after: 3 days


148290 22-Jul-2005 sam

diff reduction against p4: define IEEE80211_FIXED_RATE_NONE and use
it instead of -1


147803 07-Jul-2005 sam

only invoke ath_rate_tx_complete to update rate control state when the
frame being sent is to be ack'd and hasn't been filtered by the h/w;
this insures we don't pass in tx descriptors that have no meaningful
state (e.g. mcast/bcast frames are not acked and so have no tx retry
counts)

Approved by: re (scottl)
Obtained from: Atheros


147256 10-Jun-2005 brooks

Stop embedding struct ifnet at the top of driver softcs. Instead the
struct ifnet or the layer 2 common structure it was embedded in have
been replaced with a struct ifnet pointer to be filled by a call to the
new function, if_alloc(). The layer 2 common structure is also allocated
via if_alloc() based on the interface type. It is hung off the new
struct ifnet member, if_l2com.

This change removes the size of these structures from the kernel ABI and
will allow us to better manage them as interfaces come and go.

Other changes of note:
- Struct arpcom is no longer referenced in normal interface code.
Instead the Ethernet address is accessed via the IFP2ENADDR() macro.
To enforce this ac_enaddr has been renamed to _ac_enaddr.
- The second argument to ether_ifattach is now always the mac address
from driver private storage rather than sometimes being ac_enaddr.

Reviewed by: sobomax, sam


147153 09-Jun-2005 sam

Change station mode beacon timer setup to insure the calculated
nextTbtt is always ahead of the h/w TSF.

Reviewed by: avatar


147067 07-Jun-2005 sam

Set the correct IFS parameters for the beacon tx queue
when operating in ap and adhoc modes.


147057 06-Jun-2005 sam

Misc keycache changes:
o purge ath_initkeytable; it's not needed
o add multicast key search support for supporting multiple group keys
(disabled for now; requires updated hal)
o create keycache entry for stations using open auth so they get h/w
antenna management support
o add keycache -> node mapping table; eliminates mac-based lookup in
the net80211 layer


146885 02-Jun-2005 sam

restore led state on resume

Submitted by: markus


144961 12-Apr-2005 sam

honor new IEEE80211_KEY_GROUP key flag

Reviewed by: Tai-hwa Liang


144617 04-Apr-2005 sam

use frame type returned by ieee80211_input to drive softled code
instead of monitoring the input packet count


144547 02-Apr-2005 sam

fix size_to_bin

Obtained from: madwifi


144546 02-Apr-2005 sam

nuke unintentional use of HAL_BOOL type


144403 31-Mar-2005 sam

reclaim mbufs in failure cases

Submitted by: Tai-hwa Liang


144351 30-Mar-2005 sam

close unlikely race

Submitted by: Michael Wong


144350 30-Mar-2005 sam

correct comment


144348 30-Mar-2005 sam

o fix bug where rate wouldn't lift off lowest setting when operating as
an ap in 11g with protection enabled
o correct rate selection when operating in 11g with protection when no
packets have been sent yet (from John Bicket)
o track api change to get first descriptor and use it to collect the frame
length for calculating the state bin
o add more debugging and shuffle some existing debugging to give more info
o bump version to distinguish bug fixes


144347 30-Mar-2005 sam

rev rate control api to pass the both the first+last tx descriptors
to the rate control module for tx complete processing; this enables
rate control algorithms to extract the packet length for xmits that
require multiple descriptors


144346 30-Mar-2005 sam

o extend cts to cover packet burst when operating in 11g w/ protection
o check current channel parameters, not shadow state, for acm policy
on data frames


144315 30-Mar-2005 avatar

Fixing kernel build on amd64 machines.

Reviewed by: sam (mentor)


144309 29-Mar-2005 sam

extend the timestamp from the rx descriptor to calculate the tsf to
use when checking for an ibss merge


144308 29-Mar-2005 sam

forgot to merge this bit from p4


144307 29-Mar-2005 sam

sync rates for any associated stations or neighbors on state transition


144306 29-Mar-2005 sam

simplify callback


144305 29-Mar-2005 sam

replace m_defrag with something more suitable


143863 20-Mar-2005 sam

fix braino introduced when converting from madwifi


143862 20-Mar-2005 sam

eliminate mid-block variable decls


143853 19-Mar-2005 sam

version 1.1 (with cleanups)

Submitted by: John Bicket


143419 11-Mar-2005 avatar

Adding missing module dependency. This should fix the undefined symbol
error(ath_hal_computetxtime) during module loading.

Reviewed by: sam (mentor)


143392 11-Mar-2005 sam

SampleRate rate control algorithm for the ath driver

Submitted by: John Bicket


143299 08-Mar-2005 sam

reclaim mbuf chain when ieee80211_crypto_encap fails

Noticed by: David Young


143163 05-Mar-2005 imp

Use BUS_PROBE_DEFAULT for pci probe return value


140761 24-Jan-2005 sam

Fixup radiotap handling of FCS and QoS frames per discussion with David Young:
o mark rx frames including FCS in the payload with the
IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_F_FCS flag
o remove hack to copy 802.11 headers with padding out of line; instead mark
the frames with IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_F_DATAPAD and require applications to
do the work
o split precalculated radiotap flags into tx+rx now that they can be different

Note the full usefulness of these changes depends on updates to applications
that process radiotap data.


140759 24-Jan-2005 sam

beacon handling fixups for adhoc mode:
o don't reclaim any previous beacon state in ath_beacon_alloc; do it
explicitly in ath_newstate
o reference count the node held in the beacon frame state block
o process ibss merge more intelligently; let the state machine do the
right thing instead of explicitly setting the new bssi id
o explicitly stop tx dma before doing beacon setup to handle the ibss
merge case


140756 24-Jan-2005 sam

switch to use bus_dmamap_load_mbuf_sg


140755 24-Jan-2005 sam

o correct beacon interval calculation; the internal setting is in TU's not ms
o replace the private macro to convert MS->TU with the common one


140753 24-Jan-2005 sam

statically allocate the station/neighbor node table; the deferred
allocation scheme introduced a race condition during device state
transitions


140438 18-Jan-2005 sam

adjust tx buffer allocation based on empirical testing:
o increase the max per-frame tx descriptor count and the number of tx
buffers for forthcoming fast frame support
o correct the max scatter/gather count; it cannot be larger than the
max(tx,rx,beacon) descriptor counts


140437 18-Jan-2005 sam

add missing statistic


140436 18-Jan-2005 sam

disable interrupts when transitioning to INIT state so we don't rx frames


140435 18-Jan-2005 sam

replace hand-rolled code to compact an mbuf chain with m_defrag; this is
suboptimal but needed for fast frames which won't fit in a single cluster


140433 18-Jan-2005 sam

setup the beacon xmit queue to not interrupt; we don't use them and
they make the led's flash unnecessarily in adhoc mode


140432 18-Jan-2005 sam

better led blinking


140428 18-Jan-2005 sam

add paren's so we can supply a|b as a debug mask


140427 18-Jan-2005 sam

o disable pci retry timeout to avoid problems when operating in C3 state
(fix imported from madwifi by Takanori Watanabe)
o eliminate save/restore of pci registers handled by the system
o eliminate duplicate zero of the softc (noted by njl)
o consolidate common code

MFC after: 1 week


139530 31-Dec-2004 sam

bump copyright for 2005


139501 31-Dec-2004 sam

correct some typos

Submitted by: Tai-hwa Liang


139500 31-Dec-2004 sam

Radiotap fixups:
o catch one place where we were not using ath_chan_change to
switch channels; this fixes a problem where the channel
settings were not being correctly reported in captured packets
o return unique channel identification in the channel flags;
ethereal gets confused if you return merged flags (e.g. ofdm,
cck, and 2Ghz) (this is workaround and should be removed if
we can ever cleanup radiotap consumers)
o correct short/long preamble flag state for rx and treat tx
the same--use a new hwflags array that gives us the data
based on the h/w rate index/cookie
o add gross hack to handle radiotap capture of frames that
come in with hardware padding; should be replaced by a
flag in the radiotap header and more smarts in the apps
that decode radiotap data


139499 31-Dec-2004 sam

for parts that require split keycache entries report the
the index of the first entry on a mic error so we're
consistent with parts that don't have split keycache


139498 31-Dec-2004 sam

Correct beacon timer setup logic:
o lintval is in ms; must convert to TU's for passing to the hal
o roundup to calculate nexttbtt (should look at current tsf and pull the
calculated nextbtt forward but this'll do for now)
o don't or- in HAL_BEACON_RESET_TSF when doing station timer setup; this
is not needed and messes up the sleep timer calcs, though it's unclear
if it mattered as the hal masks these values before use

Submitted by: Thorsten von Eicken


139497 31-Dec-2004 sam

no need to sweep the tx q's for node references in ath_node_free; we know
there are none since we're only called when the ref count goes to zero


139496 31-Dec-2004 sam

cleanup some assertions


138879 15-Dec-2004 peter

Like on the ath_rate_onoe component, make this compile on amd64. Convert
pointers to an integer via uintptr_t.

Fix an apparent bug that caused a compile failure.
ieee80211_iterate_nodes() takes ic->ic_sta as its first argument on the
onoe module. It had just 'ic' here in the same context, which was a
mismatched argument.


138878 15-Dec-2004 peter

Make this amd64-clean. sizeof is long on amd64, so things that do a printf
of a sizeof, need to use %z to get the correct type on all our platforms.
Also, convert integers<->pointers via uintptr_t.

(I think Sam's instructions were for me to commit this. If I
misunderstood, then I apologize in advance.)


138570 08-Dec-2004 sam

Update with last year of work.


138569 08-Dec-2004 sam

Transmit rate control modules for the ath driver.


133330 08-Aug-2004 sam

Add missing bit of last if_start workaround: mark scan callout
MPSAFE only debug_mpsafenet is 1 so callbacks to send management
frames hold Giant; this is another bandaid on the path to removing Giant.


133240 07-Aug-2004 sam

Pickup Giant in ath_rx_proc and when handling a beacon miss in order to
satisfy the assertion in if_start.


132986 01-Aug-2004 mlaier

Second part of ALTQ driver modifications, covering:
an(4), ath(4), hme(4), ndis(4), vr(4) and wi(4)

Please help testing: http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/ALTQ_driver/

Tested by: Vaidas Damosevicius (an, ath, wi)
Roman Divacky (vr)
Submitted by: yongari (hme)


127878 05-Apr-2004 sam

use correct malloc type to allocate struct ieee80211_node's

Noticed by: phk


127784 03-Apr-2004 sam

do proper subclassing of node free+copy; the previous hack falls apart when
the 802.11 layer does useful work

Obtained from: madwifi


127782 03-Apr-2004 sam

do proper subclassing of node free+copy; the previous hack falls apart when
the 802.11 layer does useful work

Obtained from: madwifi


127781 03-Apr-2004 sam

transmit beacon frames directly instead of defering them to a swi; there
was too much delay

Obtained from: madwifi


127780 02-Apr-2004 sam

update copyright notice for 2004


127779 02-Apr-2004 sam

add new statistics

Obtained from: madwifi


127778 02-Apr-2004 sam

check more quickly (and directly) if an interrupt is pending; this reduces
work done in ath_intr when the irq is shared

Obtained from: madwifi


127777 02-Apr-2004 sam

cleanup descriptor allocation if attach fails

Obtained from: madwifi


127776 02-Apr-2004 sam

remove use IEEE80211_C_RCVMGT


127698 01-Apr-2004 sam

radiotap updates:

o force little-endian byte order for header
o pad header to 32-bit boundary to guard against applications that assume
packet data alignment


127237 20-Mar-2004 mdodd

Don't announce MAC addresses twice.
(ieee80211_ifattach() calls ether_ifattach().)


127135 17-Mar-2004 njl

Convert callers to the new bus_alloc_resource_any(9) API.

Submitted by: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>
Reviewed by: imp, dfr, bde


125510 06-Feb-2004 peter

Make this compile on amd64.

"I'll cope" by: sam


124225 07-Jan-2004 sam

When draining the tx queue reclaim any node references held in packets.
This fixes a problem when operating as an AP where clients would get
stuck in the node table because the reference count never went to zero.


124224 07-Jan-2004 sam

When ath_hal_stoptxdma returns an error dma is still likely stopped
so don't just stop trying to send a beacon frame or we'll be more likely
to lose sync. This only seems to happen on some older chips.


124223 07-Jan-2004 sam

use ath_reset instead of ath_init when recovering from a watchdog timeout:
resetting the hardware is sufficient, no need to reset the 802.11 fsm


124222 07-Jan-2004 sam

make hw.ath.debug a tunable


124221 07-Jan-2004 sam

make hw.ath.outdoor and hw.ath.countrycode tunables


124220 07-Jan-2004 sam

split debugging messages up into classes;
ah_debug is now treated as a bit vector


123928 28-Dec-2003 sam

update radiotap support to reflect recent changes:

o move tx taps from ath_start to ath_tx_start so lots more
state is available to tap
o add tx flags
o add tx rate
o add tx power (constant for the moment)
o add tx antenna state


123922 28-Dec-2003 sam

o eliminate widespread on-stack mbuf use for bpf by introducing
a new bpf_mtap2 routine that does the right thing for an mbuf
and a variable-length chunk of data that should be prepended.
o while we're sweeping the drivers, use u_int32_t uniformly when
when prepending the address family (several places were assuming
sizeof(int) was 4)
o return M_ASSERTVALID to BPF_MTAP* now that all stack-allocated
mbufs have been eliminated; this may better be moved to the bpf
routines

Reviewed by: arch@ and several others


123044 29-Nov-2003 sam

o track API change for HAL v0.9.6.1
o fix race condition when processing rx descriptors: because we use
a self-linked descriptor at the end of the rx descriptor list to
avoid rx overruns (which can easily happen for 5212 parts that enable
PHY errors) we must carefully check that a descriptor is "done" by
looking ahead to the next descriptor before believing the done bit
in the current descriptor (this is all handled in the HAL since the
rx descriptor format is chip-specific so we need to pass in two
additional parameters--the physical address of the current descriptor
and the virtual address of the next descriptor in the list)
o check copyout return status for SIOCGATHSTATS ioctl

Approved by: re (scottl)


123019 28-Nov-2003 imp

Sometimes cardbus attachments don't attach, so while we track down
this problem put these lines back in. While they should be
unnecessary, they appear to be sometimes necessary.

Reviewed in concept: dfr
Approved by: re (scottl@)


122866 17-Nov-2003 sam

move rate control change messages under ath_debug


122863 17-Nov-2003 sam

o fix WEP use in hostap mode; need to reset the pointer to the
802.11 packet header after stripping the WEP header on input


122862 17-Nov-2003 sam

on a beacon miss try to reassociate before starting a scan

Submitted by: Henry Qian


122602 13-Nov-2003 sam

Don't count PHY errors as input errors. This is important for
5212-based devices because PHY errors are used to collect data
on environmental noise that and doesn't truly reflect the state
of the communications media. The result is confused users.
Folks that want to watch PHY errors can still get the statistics
through the device ioctl (used by athstats).


121939 03-Nov-2003 dfr

Remove explicit cardbus attachments from drivers where this is identical
to the pci attachment. Cardbus is a derived class of pci so all pci
drivers are automatically available for matching against cardbus devices.

Reviewed by: imp


121840 01-Nov-2003 sam

o check hal ABI version to catch driver-HAL mismatches
o print MAC, PHY, and radio h/w revisions at attach


121816 31-Oct-2003 brooks

Replace the if_name and if_unit members of struct ifnet with new members
if_xname, if_dname, and if_dunit. if_xname is the name of the interface
and if_dname/unit are the driver name and instance.

This change paves the way for interface renaming and enhanced pseudo
device creation and configuration symantics.

Approved By: re (in principle)
Reviewed By: njl, imp
Tested On: i386, amd64, sparc64
Obtained From: NetBSD (if_xname)


121322 22-Oct-2003 sam

terminate the rx descriptor list with a self-linked entry
so high phy error rates on a 5212 don't cause rx overruns


121177 17-Oct-2003 sam

o consolidate rx filter calculations in one place
o enable beacon reception when operating in adhoc mode
so the 802.11 layer can use them to create nodes for peers


121175 17-Oct-2003 sam

indicate device receives all management frames


121138 16-Oct-2003 sam

o correct handling of a frame that has too many segments to fit in the
tx descriptor array
o while here fix a whitespace nit

Obtained from: NetBSD


121100 14-Oct-2003 sam

o convert mutex calls to #defines for portability, etc.
o destroy mutex's on detach (was missing)


121063 13-Oct-2003 sam

remove dangling mtx_unlock orphaned by rev 1.21 change


121059 13-Oct-2003 sam

Reduce per-packet overhead when using WEP by using an advancing IV
seeded with arc4random rather than calling arc4random for each
packet. Note this is the same algorithm used to select the IV when
doing WEP on the host.


121058 13-Oct-2003 sam

Must reset the pointer to the 802.11 header after prepending
for WEP in case the prepend addes a new mbuf. This fixes WEP.


121057 13-Oct-2003 sam

MFp4:

o don't grab the mutex at the top of ath_detach; it does nothing
useful
o deal with entry to ath_ioctl during detach to disable promiscuous
mode as a result of calling bpfdetach2: cannot call ath_init when
the device is marked invalid as the code isn't prepared to deal
with it (in particular by that time the hal reference may have
been yanked)


121056 13-Oct-2003 sam

MFp4:

change ath_rate_ctl_reset to handle transition from station
mode to adhoc mode; was not resetting the initial xmit rate
causing outbound frames to be dicarded


120826 06-Oct-2003 sam

include the DS element in beacons


120105 15-Sep-2003 sam

Maintain a history of data associated with received frames and use this to
calculate smoothed signal quality data for each node.

o add a 16-deep history buffer to each driver-private node storage that
holds rssi and antenna info for received frames
o override the default per-node "get rssi" method to return an average
rssi value based on samples collected over the last second
o enable beacon reception so even idle systems maintain a running history
of signal quality

This data may also be useful for improving the rate control algorithm.
Based on work by Tom Marshall <tommy@home.tig-grr.com> for MADWIFI.


120100 15-Sep-2003 sam

o do not filter received frames based on type or length; pass 'em all up
to the 802.11 layer if they are at least IEEE80211_MIN_LEN
o mask off interrupt status bits that we don't care about so we don't do
the wrong thing; this fixes a problem where the beacon miss interrupt status
bit is delivered together with other status bits when operating in monitor
mode (we would post a beacon miss swi and then do the wrong thing)


120075 14-Sep-2003 sam

must also check for 5Ghz channels when marking short preamble capability in
the beacon frames

Reminded by: Stephane Laroche <stephane.laroche@colubris.com>


120071 14-Sep-2003 sam

o mark the device capable of short preamble (meaningless for the 5210 but
safe since the 802.11 layer does the right thing for 11a operation)
o select short preamble operation based on the negotiated capabilities; not
just the local state/capability
o fillin the duration field in the 802.11 header as appropriate
o remove detection of 11g support; no longer needed

Obtained from: MADWIFI (with modifications)


119783 05-Sep-2003 sam

Add support for the experimental radiotap capture format. With this
we no longer need the debugging code to dump packets.


119629 01-Sep-2003 sam

Explicitly enable probe request frame reception when not in station mode;
this is needed for the 5212 which a separate filter bit for these frames.

Submitted by: Stephane Laroche <stephane.laroche@colubris.com>


119150 19-Aug-2003 sam

MFp4 changes to fix locking issues and correct reference
count handling of station entries in hostap mode:

Input path:

o driver is now expected to find the node associated with the
sender of a received frame; use ic_bss if none is located
o driver passes the (referenced) node into ieee80211_input for
use within the wlan module and is responsible for cleaning up
on return
o the antenna state is no longer passed up with each frame; this
is now considered driver-private state and drivers are responsible
for keeping it in the driver-private part of a node

Output path:

Revamp output path for management frames to eliminate redundant
locking that causes problems and to correct reference counting
bogosity that occurs when stations are timed out due to inactivity
(in AP mode). On output the refcnt'd node is stashed in the pkthdr's
recvif field (yech) and retrieved by the driver. This eliminates
an unref/ref scenario and related node table unlock/lock due to the
driver looking up the node. This is particularly important when
stations are timed out as this causes a lock order reversal that
can result in a deadlock. As a byproduct we also reduce the overhead
for sending management frames (minimal). Additional fallout from
this is a change to ieee80211_encap to return a refcn't node for
tieing to the outbound frame. Node refcnts are not reclaimed until
after a frame is completely processed (e.g. in the tx interrupt
handler). This is especially important for timed out stations as
this deref will be the final one causing the node entry to be
reclaimed.

Additional semi-related changes:
o replace m_copym use with m_copypacket (optimization)
o add assert to verify ic_bss is never free'd during normal operation
o add comments explaining calling conventions by drivers for frames
going in each direction
o remove extraneous code that "cannot be executed" (e.g. because
pointers may never be null)


119147 19-Aug-2003 sam

o pass control frames up the stack when in monitor mode (the 802.11 layer will
quietly discard them; this just permits them to be collected with bpf)
o add a counter for the number of rate control frames discarded when not in
monitor mode
o move the rx "too short" statistic in the stat structure so non-error rx stats
are together (NB: ABI change to apps that collect stats via driver ioctl)


119145 19-Aug-2003 sam

o correct beacon frame length calculation and add an assert to catch any future
mistakes (this mistake was not an issue because the length is only used to
decide whether or not to allocate a cluster)
o while here, move a beacon length comment to the "right place"


119144 19-Aug-2003 sam

maintain a table for mapping hardware rate codes to 802.11 rates for
calculating the rate for each rx'd frame


119143 19-Aug-2003 sam

mark the scan and calibrate callouts MPSAFE


119142 19-Aug-2003 sam

remove unneeded include files


118884 13-Aug-2003 sam

Close a race where ath_intr is installed and may be called before
the HAL is setup: use sc_invalid to discard such entries into
ath_intr. This can easily happen if the device is assigned a shared IRQ.


118342 02-Aug-2003 sam

o remove bmisshack no longer needed with the BSSID fix in v0.9.5.2 of the hal
o add monitor mode support
o fix short preamble handling in beacon setup (noop)
o correct resume handling


117812 20-Jul-2003 sam

track changes to 802.11 code:

o override new_state method per new model
o use ieee80211_state_name instead of private copy


117516 13-Jul-2003 sam

o add read-only sysctls to view regulatory domain, country code, and
outdoor use controls
o use sysctl-visible values in setting up channel list


117126 01-Jul-2003 scottl

Mega busdma API commit.

Add two new arguments to bus_dma_tag_create(): lockfunc and lockfuncarg.
Lockfunc allows a driver to provide a function for managing its locking
semantics while using busdma. At the moment, this is used for the
asynchronous busdma_swi and callback mechanism. Two lockfunc implementations
are provided: busdma_lock_mutex() performs standard mutex operations on the
mutex that is specified from lockfuncarg. dftl_lock() is a panic
implementation and is defaulted to when NULL, NULL are passed to
bus_dma_tag_create(). The only time that NULL, NULL should ever be used is
when the driver ensures that bus_dmamap_load() will not be deferred.
Drivers that do not provide their own locking can pass
busdma_lock_mutex,&Giant args in order to preserve the former behaviour.

sparc64 and powerpc do not provide real busdma_swi functions, so this is
largely a noop on those platforms. The busdma_swi on is64 is not properly
locked yet, so warnings will be emitted on this platform when busdma
callback deferrals happen.

If anyone gets panics or warnings from dflt_lock() being called, please
let me know right away.

Reviewed by: tmm, gibbs


117055 30-Jun-2003 sam

acknowledge the contribution of Atsushi Onoe


116743 23-Jun-2003 sam

Atheros 802.11 driver. Requires Atheros Hardware Access Lay (HAL).

Supported by: Atheros Comunications