History log of /freebsd-current/sys/dev/bwi/bwiphy.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 685dc743 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line .c pattern

Remove /^[\s*]*__FBSDID\("\$FreeBSD\$"\);?\s*\n/


# 93b628b9 01-Sep-2020 Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org>

bwi: clean up empty lines in .c and .h files


# 7282444b 20-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/dev: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.


# d6166def 21-Sep-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

net80211 & wireless drivers: remove duplicate defines (noop)

* IEEE80211_DIR_DSTODS(wh) -> IEEE80211_IS_DSTODS(wh).
* N(a) -> nitems(a).
* Remove LE_READ_2(p)/LE_READ_4(p) definitions (and include ieee80211_input.h instead).
* <drvname>_TXOP_TO_US(txop) -> IEEE80211_TXOP_TO_US(txop).
* Put IEEE80211_RV(v) into ieee80211_proto.h and remove local RV(v) definitions.

Submitted by: Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios@gmail.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3705


# 7a79cebf 27-Aug-2015 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Replay r286410. Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless
connectivity interact with the net80211 stack.

Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.

Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:

- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.

Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.

Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to pluknet@, Oliver Hartmann,
Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@, op@ and lev@, who also participated in
testing.

Reviewed by: adrian
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.


# ba2c1fbc 07-Aug-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Revert the wifi ifnet changes until things are more baked and tested.

* 286410
* 286413
* 286416

The initial commit broke a variety of debug and features that aren't
in the GENERIC kernels but are enabled in other platforms.


# 79d2c5e8 07-Aug-2015 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless connectivity interact
with the net80211 stack.

Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.

Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:

- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.

Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.

Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@,
op@ and lev@, who also participated in testing. Details here:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/projects/ifnet/net80211

Still, drivers: ndis, wtap, mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt, uath were not
tested. Changes to mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt are trivial and chances
of problems are low. The wtap wasn't compilable even before this change.
But the ndis driver is complex, and it is likely to be broken with this
commit. Help with testing and debugging it is appreciated.

Differential Revision: D2655, D2740
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix


# 76039bc8 26-Oct-2013 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

The r48589 promised to remove implicit inclusion of if_var.h soon. Prepare
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h

Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.


# 60807f5b 12-May-2012 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Add opt_wlan.h includes, so IEEE80211_* configuration changes are
correctly picked up.

Noticed by: Justin Hibbits, whilst debugging @ BSDCan


# 3c5ebcdc 09-Oct-2011 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Fix an incorrect use of sizeof().

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


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# f4fcd5dd 18-May-2009 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove unnecessary comments. 11A read/write is the same: its just the
classic indirect register dance.

Submitted by: ddkprog at yahoo not com


# b16a8a58 18-May-2009 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Fix a typo from the original driver. We need to write ctrl2 into RF
register 0x52, not ctrl1. This appears to be a mistake in the bcm
reverse engineering page, and has been corrected there. Tracing
through the code, this is more in keeping with the "documented"
register. Sephe thinks it looks interesting and may be worth
fixing. :)

Submitted by: ddkprog at yahoo com
Reviewed by: Sepherosa Ziehau


# 8553eea5 13-May-2009 Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>

Add a comment to motivate my last change.

Suggested by: sam, imp


# 0a594d9e 13-May-2009 Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>

Add a short delay after programming PHY registers to give some time for
the engine to catch up. This prevents a machine check exception from
illegal memory requests with a BCM4318.


# 12e36acb 02-May-2009 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Bring in Andrew Thompson's port of Sepherosa Ziehau's bwi driver for
Broadcom BCM43xx chipsets. This driver uses the v3 firmware that
needs to be fetched separately. A port will be committed to create
the bwi firmware module.

The driver matches the following chips: Broadcom BCM4301, BCM4307,
BCM4306, BCM4309, BCM4311, BCM4312, BCM4318, BCM4319

The driver works for 802.11b and 802.11g.

Limitations:
This doesn't support the 802.11a or 802.11n portion of radios.
Some BCM4306 and BCM4309 cards don't work with Channel 1, 2 or 3.
Documenation for this firmware is reverse engineered from
http://bcm.sipsolutions.net/
V4 of the firmware is needed for 11a or 11n support
http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/
Firmware needs to be fetched from a third party, port to be committed

# I've tested this with a BCM4319 mini-pci and a BCM4318 CardBus card, and
# not connected it to the build until the firmware port is committed.

Obtained from: DragonFlyBSD, //depot/projects/vap
Reviewed by: sam@, thompsa@