Although I added the reset type field to ath_hal_reset() years ago,
I never finished adding it both throughout the HALs and in if_ath.c.
This will eventually deprecate the ath_hal force_full_reset option
because it can be requested at the driver layer.
So:
* Teach ar5416ChipReset() and ar9300_chip_reset() about the HAL type
* Use it in ar5416Reset() and ar9300_reset() when doing a full chip reset
* Extend ath_reset() to include the HAL_RESET_TYPE parameter added in the above functions
* Use HAL_RESET_NORMAL in most calls to ath_reset()
* .. but use HAL_RESET_BBPANIC for the BB panics, and HAL_RESET_FORCE_COLD during fatal, beacon miss and other hardware related hangs.
This should be a glorified no-op outside of actual hardware issues.
I've tested things with ath_hal force_full_reset set to 1 for years now,
so I know that feature and a full reset works (albeit much slower than
a warm reset!) and it does unwedge hardware.
The eventual aim is to use this for all the places where the driver
detects a potential hang as well as if long calibration - ie, noise floor
calibration - fails to complete. That's one of the big hardware related
things that causes station mode operation to hang without easy recovery.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24981
Yes, people shouldn't use bitfields in C for structure parsing.
If someone ever wants a cleanup task then it'd be great to remove them
from this vendor code and other places in the ar9285/ar9287 HALs.
Alas, here we are.
AH_BYTE_ORDER wasn't defined and neither were the two values it could be.
So when compiling ath_ee_print_9300 it'd default to the big endian struct
layout and get a WHOLE lot of stuff wrong.
So:
* move AH_BYTE_ORDER into ath_hal/ah.h where it can be used by everyone.
* ensure that AH_BYTE_ORDER is actually defined before using it!
This should work on both big and little endian platforms.
Ok, yeah, the commit title is a bit misleading.
This has to do with CDD (cyclic delay diversity) - how this and later
wifi hardware transmits lower rates over more antennas. Eg, if you're
transmitting legacy 11abg rates on 2 or 3 antennas, you COULD just
send them all at the same time or you could delay each by tens/hundreds
of nanoseconds to try and get some better diversity characteristics.
However, this has a fun side effect - the antenna pattern is no longer
a bunch of interacting dipoles, but are a bunch of interacting dipoles
plus a bunch of changing phases. And it's frequency dependent - 50-200nS
is not exactly the same fraction of a wavelength across all of 2GHz or 5GHz!
Thus the power spectral density and maximum directional gain that you're
effectively getting is not .. well, as flat as it once was.
For more information, look up FCC/OET 13TR1003 in the FCC technical report
database. It has pretty graphics and everything.
Anyway, the problem lies thusly - the CDD code just subtracts another 3dB
or 5dB for the lower rates based on transmit antenna configuration.
However, it's not done based on operating configuration and it doesn't
take into account how far from any regulatory limits the hardware is at.
It also doesn't let us do things like transmit legacy rates and frames
on a single antenna without losing up to 5dB when we absolutely don't
need to in that case (there's no CDD used when one antenna is used!)
This shows up as the hardware behaving even worse for longer distance links
at 20MHz because, well, those are the exact rates losing a bunch more
transmit power.
* For lower power NICs (ie the majority of what is out there!) it's highly
unlikely we're going to hit anywhere near the PSD limits.
* It's doing it based on the existing limits from the CTL table (conformance
testing limits) - this isn't the regulatory max! It's what the NIC is
allowed to put out in each frequency and rate configuration! So things like
band edges, power amplifier behaviour and maximum current draw apply here.
Blindly subtracting 3 to 5dB from /this/ value is /very/ conservative..
* /and/ ath9k just plainly doesn't do any of this at all.
So, for now disable it and get the TX power back, thus matching what ath9k
in Linux is doing. If/once I get some more cycles I'll look at making it
a bit more adaptive and really only kick in if we're a few dB away from
hard regulatory limits.
Tested:
* AR9344 (2GHz + SoC, 2x2 configuration) - AP and STA modes
* QCA9580 (5GHz 2x2 and 3x3 configurations) - AP and STA modes
Disable ar9300_swap_tx_desc() for the moment. It is an unused
function only tried to compile on big endian systems.
Found by: s390x buildkernel
MFC after: 3 months
One of the fun issues with scanning has been how the existing
ANI values were programmed into the hardware when channels were
changed. If you're on a really crappy channel and ANI has made
you deaf then when you scan you continue to be deaf on all channels.
This code passes in a flag to startpcureceive which in AR5416 and later
is also used to enable ANI. This allows it to know if it's a normal
operation or a scan operation.
This fixes my situation at home where a temporary spot of a device
going deaf due to interference starts scanning and .. can't hear
anything until I restart.
Now, this isn't the full fix - ideally:
(a) all the ANI config and per-channel information would be migrated
to the shared HAL stuff and enabled for all of the NICs;
(b) when a station reassociates and some other error conditions
(like missed beacons, NF calibration failures, etc) a knob
to reset ANI parameters would likely help recovery.
But hey, I'm committing bits of code again! woo!
Tested:
* AR9344 (2G), STA operation
If we fail noise floor calibration then we may end up with a deaf NIC
which we can't recover without a full chip reset.
Earlier chips seem to get less stuck in this condition versus AR9280/later
and AR9300/later, but whilst here just fix up the AR5212 era chips to also
return NF calibration failures.
This HAL routine would only return failure if the channel was not configured.
This is a no-op until the driver side code for doing resets and the HAL
code for being told about the reset type (and then handling it!) is
implemented.
Tested:
* AR9280, STA mode
* AR2425, STA mode
* AR9380, STA mode
I'm in the process of reworking how the reset path works with an eye
to better recovery when the chips hang and/or go RF/PHY deaf.
This is the first step in a lot of unification and API changes.
It turns out that this is useful on hornet and wasp SoCs but it isn't
enabled in ye olde HAL /unless/ you were using a version from one of the
business units building USB targetted devices. It eventually got fixed
for all of them as people started wanting to use the USB ports on their
SoCs (eg for flash storage, bluetooth, 4G/LTE widgets, etc.)
This is actually a fix from ath9k but I'm merging it with the available-but-
disabled code in the QCA reference HAL.
Tested:
* AR9331 SoC
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
* flesh out a "get default DFS parameters" routine
* remove the stub that returns NULL
* fix up the enable DFS method to do what FreeBSD does - specifically, allow pe_enabled
to be set/cleared.
This allows the radar pulse reporting code to function, but it doesn't yet
do anything useful.
* add debugging
* disable the manual noise floor calibration and tracking done by the HAL;
this interferes with the normal calibration path and will lock up the RX
side
* don't program short report / priority if they're provided as NOVAL.
* add support to read the timer and capability
* add support to enable/disable the location timer.
On AR9380 at least, enabling the location timer is required to make
the timer tick, otherwise location packets return a timestamp of 0.
However, it then makes /all/ RX packets use the RX location timestamp
instead of the TSF timestamp.
So, unless I find another magical way to do location timestamping,
we will have to dynamically switch things on/off and ensure the
TX/RX path handles the "different" timestamps correctly.
Tested:
* AR9380, STA mode
* LOC_INFO is mostly just "did this packet come with a locationing
timestamp instead of TSF";
* Decode not-sounding, uploaded-data, data-valid, data type and
number of extension spatial streams.
* If fast_ts is set then the TX timestamp is the fast timestamp, not
normal TSF.
* If the TX descriptor has the position bit set then request locationing
and clear sounding-disable. This way we (a) get the response with
the TX timestamp from the location side of things, and (b) we get
a CSI dump of the response ACK, which we will eventually use in the
locationing path.
* the code already stored the length of the RX desc, which I never used.
So, use that and retire the new flag I introduced a while ago.
* Introduce a TX timestamp length field and capability.
Among other things, this introduces the idea of DBA-gated queues that
aren't the CABQ. The TDMA support requires this.
Tested:
* AR9580 (hostap mode)
* AR9380 (sta mode)
Approved by: re (gjb)
This is in preparation for some other TDMA fixes which will hopefully
end with having working TDMA.
But, it does avoid lots of read/modify/writes in the txq setup path.
* Allow readyTime to just be programmed in directly
* The beacon interval and all of the beacon timing sysctl's are in TU,
not TSF. So, we were doing the wrong math on the CAB programming
in the first place.
This seems to make 5G work better.
It doesn't fix powersave handling though, that still sees the PHY get
stuck during initial calibration and everything goes pear shaped.
I'll look into that later.
Tested:
* QCAFN222 NIC, STA mode, 5GHz
Obtained from: Linux ath9k
Turns out I wasn't even initialising or programming a lot of stuff
for the AR9462 2.1 chip. Oops.
This mostly gets it working. powersave scan results in some pretty
hilarious NFcal hangs and I don't see beacons reliably.
There are still some xlna gain tables missing that ath9k has; I'll
follow up with some fixes and then see if the QCAFN222 NIC I have
tests this path.
Tested:
* QCAFN222 NIC, STA mode, 2GHz and 5GHz
These are apparently conditional on there being a shared PA/LNA, which
at least on AR9462/QCA9535 devices I have isn't a thing.
I'm .. not yet sure which devices it /is/ a thing, so I'll come back
to that.
Tested:
* QCA9565 STA + bluetooth
Obtained from: Linux ath9k
* Add extra debugging - the weights debugging is really useful to ensure
things are programmed into the wlan coexistence table. The weights are
what traffic priority each of the various modes get (tx, tx-high-priority,
rx-beacon, etc) if they're all zero, things work very poorly.
* Add in coex init routines from ath9k for AR9462 and QCA9565 1ANT and 2ANT.
This control things like beacon stomping, ACK handling, antennas, PA/LNA
shared, etc.
* Some ancillary bits.
TODO:
* There's some conditional stuff around MCI_ANT_ARCH_PA_LNA_SHARED() in ath9k
which doesn't always enable force-on LNA. That'll have to be examined
and merged in as appropriate.
Obtained from: linux ath9k
Notably, this also sets AR_BTCOEX_WL_LNADIV to FORCE_ON, so LNA diversity
is always enabled and under control of the wifi chip.
Tested:
* QCA9565, STA + bluetooth mode
Obtained from: Linux ath9k
This configures the LNA antenna diversity control, which should be on
if wlan owns the LNA for bluetooth coexistence. Otherwise, make sure
it's off.
I think this is eventually intended to allow 1-antenna bluetooth +
wifi setups for QCA9565, but I'm not sure where that's actually configured
in ath9k.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k
It turns out that the srev checks can't be done in the early attach
in ar9300_freebsd.c, because the poweron and srev check hasn't yet
happened.
So:
* Re-add the MCI overrides in attach
* Add QCA9565 (Aphrodite) check for the LNA diversity stuff.
Tested:
* QCA9565, STA mode + bluetooth
