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305614 08-Sep-2016 pfg

MFC r303891, r303892:
sys: replace comma with semicolon when pertinent.

Uses of commas instead of a semicolons can easily go undetected. The comma
can serve as a statement separator but this shouldn't be abused when
statements are meant to be standalone.

302408 08-Jul-2016 gjb

Copy head@r302406 to stable/11 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE cycle.
Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, as nothing has been merged
here.

Additional commits post-branch will follow.

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


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301304 04-Jun-2016 adrian

[ath_hal] add placeholders for AUDIO stomp for Kite/Kiwi.

It just stomps all; which is enough for some testing.


301042 31-May-2016 adrian

[ath_hal] add support for setting the azimuth timestamp in the outgoing TX payload.

FYI: This is an unsupported/deprecated feature of the 11n hardware.


298939 02-May-2016 pfg

dev/ath: minor spelling fixes in comments.

No functional change.

Reviewed by: adrian


297793 10-Apr-2016 pfg

Cleanup unnecessary semicolons from the kernel.

Found with devel/coccinelle.


290616 09-Nov-2015 garga

Fix kernel build, broken in r290612

Approved by: adrian


290612 09-Nov-2015 adrian

ath(4): begin fleshing out a "reset type" extension to force cold/warn resets.

Right now the only way to force a cold reset is:

* The HAL itself detects it's needed, or
* The sysctl, setting all resets to be cold.

Trouble is, cold resets take quite a bit longer than warm resets.

However, there are situations where a cold reset would be nice.
Specifically, after a stuck beacon, BB/MAC hang, stuck calibration results,
etc.

The vendor HAL has a separate method to set the reset reason (which is
how HAL_RESET_BBPANIC gets set) which informs the HAL during the reset path
why it occured. This is almost but not quite the same; I may eventually
unify both approaches in the future.

This commit just extends HAL_RESET_TYPE to include both status (eg BBPANIC)
and type (eg do COLD.) None of the HAL code uses it yet though; that'll
come later.

It also is a big no-op in each HAL - I need to go teach each of the HALs
about cold/warm reset through this path.


289099 10-Oct-2015 adrian

Flip on fast frames support for AR5416 and AR9300 series NICs.

This was off because the net80211 aggregation code was using the same
state pointers for both fast frames and ampdu tx support which led to some
pretty unfortunate panic-y behaviour.

Now that net80211 doesn't panic, let's flip this back on.

It doesn't (yet) do the horrific sounding thing of A-MPDU aggregates
of fast frames; that'll come next. It's a pre-requisite to supporting
AMSDU + AMPDU anyway, which actually speeds things up quite considerably
(think packing lots of little ACK frames into a single AMSDU.)

Tested:

* QCA955x SoC, AP mode
* AR5416, STA mode
* AR9170, STA mode (with local fast frame patches)


280828 29-Mar-2015 adrian

Move the HAL channel survey support out to be in the top-level HAL,
rathe than private in each HAL module.

Whilst here, modify ath_hal_private to always have the per-channel
noisefloor stats, rather than conditionally. This just makes
life easier in general (no strange ABI differences between different
HAL compile options.)

Add a couple of methods (clear/reset, add) rather than using
hand-rolled versions of things.


277290 17-Jan-2015 adrian

Oops; correctly reload the CCA registers with the uncapped value
in prep for the next NF calibration pass.

Totally missing braces. Damn you C.

Submitted by: Sascha Wildner <swildner@dragonflybsd.org>
MFC after: 1 week


272292 30-Sep-2014 adrian

Add initial support for the AR9485 CUS198 / CUS230 variants.

These variants have a few differences from the default AR9485 NIC,
namely:

* a non-default antenna switch config;
* slightly different RX gain table setup;
* an external XLNA hooked up to a GPIO pin;
* (and not yet done) RSSI threshold differences when
doing slow diversity.

To make this possible:

* Add the PCI device list from Linux ath9k, complete with vendor and
sub-vendor IDs for various things to be enabled;
* .. and until FreeBSD learns about a PCI device list like this,
write a search function inspired by the USB device enumeration code;
* add HAL_OPS_CONFIG to the HAL attach methods; the HAL can use this
to initialise its local driver parameters upon attach;
* copy these parameters over in the AR9300 HAL;
* don't default to override the antenna switch - only do it for
the chips that require it;
* I brought over ar9300_attenuation_apply() from ath9k which is cleaner
and easier to read for this particular NIC.

This is a work in progress. I'm worried that there's some post-AR9380
NIC out there which doesn't work without the antenna override set as
I currently haven't implemented bluetooth coexistence for the AR9380
and later HAL. But I'd rather have this code in the tree and fix it
up before 11.0-RELEASE happens versus having a set of newer NICs
in laptops be effectively RX deaf.

Tested:

* AR9380 (STA)
* AR9485 CUS198 (STA)

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros, Linux ath9k


265112 30-Apr-2014 adrian

* Only update ah_powerMode if we're setting the chip sleep state.
Some code will appear soon that is actually setting the chip powerstate
separate from the self-generated frames power state.
* Allow the AR5416 family chips to actually have the power state changed
from the self generated state change.

Tested (STA mode):

* AR5210
* AR5211
* AR5412
* AR5413
* AR5416
* AR9285


265033 27-Apr-2014 adrian

Note that the AR5416 and later hardware supports the MYBEACON RX filter.


265031 27-Apr-2014 adrian

Program the AR_TSFOOR_THRESHOLD register with a default lifted from
the QCA HAL.

This fires off an interrupt if the TSF from the AP / IBSS peer is
wildly out of range. I'll add some code to the ath(4) driver soon
which makes use of this.

TODO:

* verify this didn't break TDMA!


265030 27-Apr-2014 adrian

Fix the AR_SLEEP1 and AR_SLEEP2 definitions. Oops!

Tested:

* AR9285, STA
* AR5416, STA

Obtained from: QCA, Linux ath9k


265029 27-Apr-2014 adrian

Do a read-after-write to ensure the interrupt register update is flushed
to the hardware.

The QCA HAL has a comment noting that if this isn't done, modifications
to AR_IMR_S2 before AR_IMR is flushed may produce spurious interrupts.

Obtained from: QCA


263417 20-Mar-2014 adrian

Shuffle ah_powerMode to be in a sane spot for the given power operation.

This way the state changes from sleep->awake before the registers are poked
and from awake->sleep after the registers are poked.

This way spurious warnings aren't printed by my (to be committed)
debugging code.

Tested:

* AR5416, STA


262969 10-Mar-2014 adrian

Migrate the chip power mode status to public ath_hal, rather than the
private per-chip HAL.

This allows the ah_osdep.[ch] code to check whether the power state is
valid for doing chip programming.

It should be a no-op for normal driver work but it does require a
clean kernel/module rebuild, as the size of HAL structures have changed.

Now, this doesn't track whether the hardware is ACTUALLY awake,
as NETWORK_SLEEP wakes the chip up for a short period when traffic
is received. This doesn't actually set the power mode to AWAKE, so
we have to be careful about how we touch things.

But it's enough to start down the path of implementing station mode
chipset power savings, as a large part of the silliness is making
sure the chip is awake during periodic calibration / ANI and
random places where transmit may be occuring. I'd rather not a repeat
of debugging power save on ath9k, where races with calibration
and transmit path stuff took a couple years to shake out.

Tested:

* AR5416, STA mode


251483 07-Jun-2013 adrian

Add bluetooth fixes to the AR5416/AR92xx HAL:

* Call the bluetooth setup function during the reset path, so the bluetooth
settings are actually initialised.
* Call the AR9285 diversity functions during bluetooth setup; so the AR9285
diversity and antenna configuration registers are correctly programmed
* Misc debugging info.

Tested:

* AR9285+AR3011 bluetooth combo; this code itself doesn't enable bluetooth
coexistence but it's part of what I'm currently using.


251340 03-Jun-2013 adrian

Fix receive on the AR9285 (Kite) with only one antenna connected.

The main problem here is that fast and driver RX diversity isn't actually
configured; I need to figure out why that is. That said, this makes
the single-antenna connected AR9285 and AR2427 (AR9285 w/ no 11n) work
correctly.

PR: kern/179269


250856 21-May-2013 adrian

Fix build break - the SetCapability calls return HAL_BOOL,
not HAL_STATUS.


250841 21-May-2013 adrian

Extend the TXOP enforce capability to support checking whether it's
supported.


250346 08-May-2013 adrian

Implement STBC receive frame statistics.

The AR9280 and later can receive STBC. This adds some statistics
tracking to count these frames.

A patch to athstats will be forthcoming.


249580 17-Apr-2013 adrian

Setup needed tables for TPC on AR5416->AR9287 chips.

* Add ah_ratesArray[] to the ar5416 HAL state - this stores the maximum
values permissable per rate.
* Since different chip EEPROM formats store this value in a different place,
store the HT40 power detector increment value in the ar5416 HAL state.
* Modify the target power setup code to store the maximum values in the
ar5416 HAL state rather than using a local variable.
* Add ar5416RateToRateTable() - to convert a hardware rate code to the
ratesArray enum / index.
* Add ar5416GetTxRatePower() - which goes through the gymnastics required
to correctly calculate the target TX power:
+ Add the power detector increment for ht40;
+ Take the power offset into account for AR9280 and later;
+ Offset the TX power correctly when doing open-loop TX power control;
+ Enforce the per-rate maximum value allowable.

Note - setting a TPC value of 0x0 in the TX descriptor on (at least)
the AR9160 resulted in the TX power being very high indeed. This didn't
happen on the AR9220. I'm guessing it's a chip bug that was fixed at
some point. So for now, just assume the AR5416/AR5418 and AR9130 are
also suspect and clamp the minimum value here at 1.

Tested:

* AR5416, AR9160, AR9220 hostap, verified using (2GHz) spectrum analyser
* Looked at target TX power in TX descriptor (using athalq) as well as TX
power on the spectrum analyser.

TODO:

* The TX descriptor code sets the target TX power to 0 for AR9285 chips.
I'm not yet sure why. Disable this for TPC and ensure that the TPC
TX power is set.
* AR9280, AR9285, AR9227, AR9287 testing!
* 5GHz testing!

Quirks:

* The per-packet TPC code is only exercised when the tpc sysctl is set
to 1. (dev.ath.X.tpc=1.) This needs to be done before you bring the
interface up.
* When TPC is enabled, setting the TX power doesn't end up with a call
through to the HAL to update the maximum TX power. So ensure that
you set the TPC sysctl before you bring the interface up and configure
a lower TX power or the hardware will be clamped by the lower TX
power (at least until the next channel change.)

Thanks to Qualcomm Atheros for all the hardware, and Sam Leffler for use
of his spectrum analyser to verify the TX channel power.


249517 15-Apr-2013 adrian

Now that the register definitions are in -HEAD, enable this.


249516 15-Apr-2013 adrian

Bring over some AR9271 register definitions from the QCA HAL.

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros


248670 23-Mar-2013 adrian

CABQ calculation changes to try and fix some weird corner cases leading
to stuck beacons.

* Set the cabq readytime (ie, how long to burst for) to 50% of the total
beacon interval time
* fix the cabq adjustment calculation based on how the beacon offset is
calculated (the SWBA/DBA time offset.)

This is all still a bit magic voodoo but it does seem to have further
quietened issues with missed/stuck beacons under my local testing.
In any case, it better matches what the reference HAL implements.

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros


248129 10-Mar-2013 adrian

Add another register definition bit - whether to populate EVM or PLCP
data in the RX status descriptor.

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros


247774 04-Mar-2013 adrian

add a method to set/clear the VMF field in the TX descriptor.

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros


247287 25-Feb-2013 adrian

Part #2 of the TX chainmask changes:

* Remove ar5416UpdateChainmasks();
* Remove the TX chainmask override code from the ar5416 TX descriptor
setup routines;
* Write a driver method to calculate the current chainmask based on the
operating mode and update the driver state;
* Call the HAL chainmask method before calling ath_hal_reset();
* Use the currently configured chainmask in the TX descriptors rather than
the hardware TX chainmasks.

Tested:

* AR5416, STA/AP mode - legacy and 11n modes


247286 25-Feb-2013 adrian

Begin adding support to explicitly set the current chainmask.

Right now the only way to set the chainmask is to set the hardware
configured chainmask through capabilities. This is fine for forcing
the chainmask to be something other than what the hardware is capable
of (eg to reduce TX/RX to one connected antenna) but it does change what
the HAL hardware chainmask configuration is.

For operational mode changes, it (may?) make sense to separately control
the TX/RX chainmask.

Right now it's done as part of ar5416_reset.c - ar5416UpdateChainMasks()
calculates which TX/RX chainmasks to enable based on the operating mode.
(1 for legacy and whatever is supported for 11n operation.) But doing
this in the HAL is suboptimal - the driver needs to know the currently
configured chainmask in order to correctly enable things for each
TX descriptor. This is currently done by overriding the chainmask
config in the ar5416 TX routines but this has to disappear - the AR9300
HAL support requires the driver to dynamically set the TX chainmask based
on the TX power and TX rate in order to meet mini-PCIe slot power
requirements.

So:

* Introduce a new HAL method to set the operational chainmask variables;
* Introduce null methods for the previous generation chipsets;
* Add new driver state to record the current chainmask separate from
the hardware configured chainmask.

Part #2 of this will involve disabling ar5416UpdateChainMasks() and moving
it into the driver; as well as properly programming the TX chainmask
based on the currently configured HAL chainmask.

Tested:

* AR5416, STA mode - both legacy (11a/11bg) and 11n rates - verified
that AR_SELFGEN_MASK (the chainmask used for self-generated frames like
ACKs and RTSes) is correct, as well as the TX descriptor contents is
correct.


247145 22-Feb-2013 adrian

Add a workaround for AR5416, AR9130 and AR9160 chipsets - work around
an incorrectly calculated RTS duration value when transmitting aggregates.

These earlier 802.11n NICs incorrectly used the ACK duration time when
calculating what to put in the RTS of an aggregate frame. Instead it
should have used the block-ack time. The result is that other stations
may not reserve enough time and start transmitting _over_ the top of
the in-progress blockack field. Tsk.

This workaround is to popuate the burst duration field with the delta
between the ACK duration the hardware is using and the required duration
for the block-ack. The result is that the RTS field should now contain
the correct duration for the subsequent block-ack.

This doesn't apply for AR9280 and later NICs.

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros


247092 21-Feb-2013 adrian

Be slightly more paranoid with the TX DMA buffer maximum threshold.

Specifically - never jack the TX FIFO threshold up to the absolute
maximum; always leave enough space for two DMA transactions to
appear.

This is a paranoia from the Linux ath9k driver. It can't hurt.

Obtained from: Linux ath9k


247073 21-Feb-2013 adrian

Remove this unneeded printf(), sorry!


247033 20-Feb-2013 adrian

Configure larger TX FIFO default and maximum level values.

This has reduced the number of TX delimiter and data underruns when
doing large UDP transfers (>100mbit).

This stops any HAL_INT_TXURN interrupts from occuring, which is a good
sign!

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros


247030 20-Feb-2013 adrian

If any of the TX queues have underrun reporting enabled, enable
HAL_INT_TXURN in the interrupt mask register.

This should now allow for TXURN interrupts to be posted.


246579 09-Feb-2013 adrian

The encryption type field needs to be preserved for each descriptor
making up a frame, in both a sub-frame and for all frames in an
aggregate.

Tested:

* AR5416, STA mode


244950 02-Jan-2013 adrian

Fix the short repeat option code to not flip the option to 0 when
we call this w/ NOVAL set.


244943 02-Jan-2013 adrian

Bring over the basic spectral scan framework code from Qualcomm Atheros.

This includes the HAL routines to setup, enable/activate/disable spectral
scan and configure the relevant registers.

This still requires driver interaction to enable spectral scan reporting.
Specifically:

* call ah_spectralConfigure() to configure and enable spectral scan;
* .. there's currently no way to disable spectral scan... that will have
to follow.
* call ah_spectralStart() to force start a spectral report;
* call ah_spectralStop() to force stop an active spectral report.

The spectral scan results appear as PHY errors (type 0x5 on the AR9280,
same as radar) but with the spectral scan bit set (0x10 in the last byte
of the frame) identifying it as a spectral report rather than a radar
FFT report.

Caveats:

* It's likely quite difficult to run spectral _and_ radar at the same
time. Enabling spectral scan disables the radar thresholds but
leaves radar enabled. Thus, the driver (for now) needs to ensure
that only one or the other is enabled.

* .. it needs testing on HT40 mode.

Tested:

* AR9280 in STA mode, HT/20 only

TODO:

* Test on AR9285, AR9287;
* Test in both HT20 and HT40 modes;
* .. all the driver glue.

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros


244768 28-Dec-2012 adrian

Add the AR9280 and later spectral scan register definitions.

Obtained from: Linux ath9k, Qualcomm Atheros (datasheet)


244767 28-Dec-2012 adrian

Add radar_bin_thresh_sel (bit 24:26), which defines when
to consider the radar FFT report bins as "strong".


244529 21-Dec-2012 adrian

Note why fast frames is disabled for 802.11n NICs now.

It actually works, but net80211 handles A-MPDU and Fast frames
incorrectly; it tries enabling both in some instances, with tragic
results.


243843 04-Dec-2012 adrian

Methodise the BT diversity configuration function; so the AR9285
can correctly override it.

This was missed in the previous commit.


243840 03-Dec-2012 adrian

Add and tie in the AR5416 bluetooth coexistence methods into the HAL.


243743 01-Dec-2012 adrian

Add a new HAL capability - check and enforce whether the NIC supports
enforcing the TXOP and TBTT limits:

* Frames which will overlap with TBTT will not TX;
* Frames which will exceed TXOP will be filtered.

This is not enabled by default; it's intended to be enabled by the
TDMA code on 802.11n capable chipsets.


243472 24-Nov-2012 adrian

Add a comment which covers what's going on with the 64 bit TSF write.

After chatting with the MAC team, the TSF writes (at least on the 11n
MACs, I don't know about pre-11n MACs) are done as 64 bit writes that
can take some time. So, doing a 32 bit TSF write is definitely not
supported. Leave a comment here which explains that.

Whilst here, add a comment which outlines that after a reset or TSF
write, the TSF write may take a while (up to 50uS) to update.
A write or reset shouldn't be done whilst the previous one is in
flight. Also (and this isn't currently done) a read shouldn't
occur until the SLEEP32_TSF_WRITE_STAT is clear. Right now we're
not doing that, mostly because we haven't been doing lots of TSF
resets/writes until recently.


243424 23-Nov-2012 adrian

Implement a HAL method to set a 64 bit TSF value.

TODO: implement it (and test) for the AR5210/AR5211.


243164 16-Nov-2012 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.


242509 03-Nov-2012 adrian

HAL API changes!

* introduce a new HAL API method to pull out the TX status descriptor
contents.

* Add num_delims to the 11n first aggr method. This isn't used by the
driver at the moment so it won't affect anything.


242411 31-Oct-2012 adrian

Oops - this was incorrectly removed in a previous commit.


242408 31-Oct-2012 adrian

HAL updates!

* Add some more ANI spur immunity levels.
* For AR5111 radios attached to an AR5212, limit the 5GHz channels
that are available. A later revision of the AR5111 supports the 4.9GHz
PSB channels but right now there's no check in place for the radio
revision.

If someone wants PSB support on AR5212+AR5111 radios then please let
me know and I'll add the relevant version check.

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros


241195 04-Oct-2012 adrian

Implement the quarter rate fractional channel programming for the
AR5416 and AR9280, but leave it disabled by default.

TL;DR: don't enable this code at all unless you go through the process
of getting the NIC re-certified. This is purely to be used as a
reference and NOT a certified solution by any stretch of the imagination.

The background:

The AR5112 RF synth right up to the AR5133 RF synth (used on the AR5416,
derivative is used for the AR9130/AR9160) only implement down to 2.5MHz
channel spacing in 5GHz. Ie, the RF synth is programmed in steps of 2.5MHz
(or 5, 10, 20MHz.) So they can't represent the quarter rate channels
in the 4.9GHz PSB (which end in xxx2MHz and xxx7MHz). They support
fractional spacing in 2GHz (1MHz spacing) (or things wouldn't work,
right?)

So instead of doing this, the RF synth programming for the AR5112 and
later code will round to the nearest available frequency.

If all NICs were RF5112 or later, they'll inter-operate fine - they all
program the same. (And for reference, only the latest revision of the
RF5111 NICs do it, but the driver doesn't yet implement the programming.)

However:

* The AR5416 programming didn't at all implement the fractional synth
work around as above;
* The AR9280 programming actually programmed the accurate centre frequency
and thus wouldn't inter-operate with the legacy NICs.

So this patch:

* Implements the 4.9GHz PSB fractional synth workaround, exactly as the
RF5112 and later code does;
* Adds a very dirty workaround from me to calculate the same channel
centre "fudge" to the AR9280 code when operating on fractional frequencies
in 5GHz.

HOWEVER however:

It is disabled by default. Since the HAL didn't implement this feature,
it's highly unlikely that the AR5416 and AR928x has been tested in these
centre frequencies. There's a lot of regulatory compliance testing required
before a NIC can have this enabled - checking for centre frequency,
for drift, for synth spurs, for distortion and spectral mask compliance.
There's likely a lot of other things that need testing so please don't
treat this as an exhaustive, authoritative list. There's a perfectly good
process out there to get a NIC certified by your regulatory domain, please
go and engage someone to do that for you and pay the relevant fees.

If a company wishes to grab this work and certify existing 802.11n NICs
for work in these bands then please be my guest. The AR9280 works fine
on the correct fractional synth channels (49x2 and 49x7Mhz) so you don't
need to get certification for that. But the 500KHz offset hack may have
the above issues (spur, distortion, accuracy, etc) so you will need to
get the NIC recertified.

Please note that it's also CARD dependent. Just because the RF synth
will behave correctly doesn't at all mean that the card design will also
behave correctly. So no, I won't enable this by default if someone
verifies a specific AR5416/AR9280 NIC works. Please don't ask.

Tested:

I used the following NICs to do basic interoperability testing at
half and quarter rates. However, I only did very minimal spectrum
analyser testing (mostly "am I about to blow things up" testing;
not "certification ready" testing):

* AR5212 + AR5112 synth
* AR5413 + AR5413 synth
* AR5416 + AR5113 synth
* AR9280


240984 27-Sep-2012 adrian

Track the last ANI TX/RX sample correctly.

This doesn't specifically fix the issue(s) i'm seeing in this 2GHz
environment (where setting/increasing spur immunity causes OFDM restart
errors to skyrocket through the roof; but leaving it at 0 would leave
the environment cleaner..)

Pointy-hat-to: me, for committing this broken code in the first place.


240471 13-Sep-2012 adrian

Don't use AR_PHY_MODE to setup half/quarter rate.

I'm not sure where in the deep, distant past I found the AR_PHY_MODE
registers for half/quarter rate mode, but unfortunately that doesn't
seem to work "right" for non-AR9280 chips.

Specifically:

* don't touch AR_PHY_MODE
* set the PLL bits when configuring half/quarter rate

I've verified this on the AR9280 (5ghz fast clock) and the AR5416.

The AR9280 works in both half/quarter rate; the AR5416 unfortunately
only currently works at half rate. It fails to calibrate on quarter rate.


240448 13-Sep-2012 adrian

Flip on half/quarter rate support.

No, this isn't HT/5 and HT/10 support. This is the 11a half/quarter
rate support primarily used by the 4.9GHz and GSM band regulatory
domains.

This is definitely a work in progress.

TODO:

* everything in the last commit;
* lots more interoperability testing with the AR5212 half/quarter rate
support for the relevant chips;
* Do some interop testing on half/quarter rate support between _all_
the 11n chips - AR5416, AR9160, AR9280 (and AR9285/AR9287 when 2GHz
half/quarter rate support is coded up.)


240447 13-Sep-2012 adrian

Introduce an AR5416 flavour of the IFS and mac usec/timing configuration
used when running the chips in half/quarter rate.

This sets up some default parameters which are then overridden by the
driver (which manually configures things like slot timing at interface
start time.)

Although this is a copy-and-modify from the AR5212 HAL, I did peek
at the reference HAL and the ath9k driver to see what they did.
Ath9k in particular doesn't hard-code this - instead, their version
of ar5416InitUserSettings() does all of the relevant math.

TODO:

* do the math, not hard code things!
* fix the mac clock calculation for the AR9287; since it runs the
MAC clock at a higher rate, requiring all the duration calculations
to change;
* Do a whole lot more validation for half/quarter rates.

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros, Linux ath9k


240446 13-Sep-2012 adrian

Call the ar5212SetCoverageClass() function for now.

Some of the math is a little wrong thanks to clocks in 11a mode running
at 44MHz when in fast clock mode (rather than 40MHz, which the chips
before AR9280 ran 11a in). That'll have to be addressed in a future commit.


240445 13-Sep-2012 adrian

Add register defintions for the AR5416 TX/RX latency fields.

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros


239753 27-Aug-2012 adrian

Ensure that all firstep values are available in ANI.

The comparison assumes maxFirstepLevel is a count, rather than a maximum
value. The array is 3 entries in size however 'maxFirstepLevel' is 2.

This bug also exists in the AR5212 HAL.


239752 27-Aug-2012 adrian

Fix the debugging output to correctly log CCK errors.


239643 24-Aug-2012 adrian

Add default values for the NumTxMaps capability.


239638 24-Aug-2012 adrian

Implement an API to fetch the default DFS parameters for the given chip.

The only chip this is currently implemented for is the AR5416 HAL family.
A follow-up commit will add AR5212 support.

PR: kern/170904


239053 05-Aug-2012 adrian

Migrate the 802.11n ath_hal_chaintxdesc() API to use a buffer/segment
array, similar to what filltxdesc() uses.

This removes the last reference to ds_data in the TX path outside of
debugging statements. These need to be adjusted/fixed.

Tested:

* AR9280 STA/AP with iperf TCP traffic


239051 05-Aug-2012 adrian

Migrate the ath_hal_filltxdesc() API to take a list of buffer/seglen values.

The existing API only exposes 'seglen' (the current buffer (segment) length)
with the data buffer pointer set in 'ds_data'. This is fine for the legacy
DMA engine but it won't work for the EDMA engines.

The EDMA engine has a significantly different TX descriptor layout.

* The legacy DMA engine had a ds_data pointer at the same offset in the
descriptor for both TX and RX buffers;
* The EDMA engine has no ds_data for RX - the data is DMAed after the
descriptor;
* The EDMA engine has support for 4 TX buffer/segment pairs in the TX
DMA descriptor;
* The EDMA TX completion is in a different FIFO, and the driver will
'link' the status completion entry to a QCU by a "QCU ID".
I don't know why it's just not filled in by the hardware, alas.

So given that, here are the changes:

* Instead of directly fondling 'ds_data' in ath_desc, change the
ath_hal_filltxdesc() to take an array of buffer pointers as well
as segment len pointers;
* The EDMA TX completion status wants a descriptor and queue id.
This (for now) uses bf_state.bfs_txq and will extract the hardware QCU
ID from that.
* .. and this is ugly and wasteful; it should change to just store
the QCU in the bf_state and save 3/7 bytes in the process.

Now, the weird crap:

* The aggregate TX path was using bf_state->bfs_txq for the TXQ, rather than
taking a function argument. I've tidied that up.
* The multicast queue frames get put on a software TXQ and then that is
appended to the hardware CABQ when appropriate. So for now, make sure
that bf_state->bfs_txq points at the CABQ when adding frames to the
multicast queue.
* .. but the multicast queue TX path for now doesn't use the software
queue and instead
(a) directly sets up the descriptor contents at that point;
(b) the frames on the vap->avp_mcastq are then just appended wholesale
to the CABQ.
So for now, I don't have to worry about making the multicast path
work with aggregation or the per-TID software queue. Phew.

What's left to do:

* I need to modify the 11n ath_hal_chaintxdesc() API to do the same.
I'll do that in a subsequent commit.
* Remove bf_state.bfs_txq entirely and store the QCU as appropriate.
* .. then do the runtime "is this going on the right HWQ?" checks using
that, rather than comparing pointer values.

Tested on:

* AR9280 STA/AP
* AR5416 STA/AP


238858 28-Jul-2012 adrian

Flesh out the multi-rate retry capability.

The existing method for testing for MRR is to call the "SetupXTXDesc"
HAL method and see if it returns AH_TRUE or AH_FALSE. This capability
explicitly lists what number of multi-rate attempts are possible.

"1" means "one rate attempt supported".


238842 27-Jul-2012 adrian

Add STBC TX support for AR5416 HAL chips.

Specifically, however:

* AR9280 and later support 1-stream STBC RX;
* AR9280 and AR9287 support 1-stream STBC TX.

The STBC support isn't announced (yet) via net80211 and it isn't at all
chosen by the rate control code, so there's no real consumer of this
yet.

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros


238838 27-Jul-2012 adrian

Bring this API in line with what the reference driver and Linux ath9k
was doing.

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros, Linux ath9k


237868 01-Jul-2012 adrian

Migrate the MAC/BB hang structures out from ar5416_misc.h into the HAL.

The ar9300 HAL also uses these types, so it makes no sense to duplicate
them.


237626 27-Jun-2012 adrian

Fix a subtle corner case surrounding the handling of OFDM restart along
with AMPDU aggregate delimiters.

If there's an OFDM restart during an aggregate, the hardware ACKs
the previous frame, but communicates the RXed frame to the hardware
as having had CRC delimiter error + OFDM_RESTART phy error.
The frame however didn't have a CRC error and since the hardware ACKed
the aggregate to the sender, it thinks the frame was received.

Since I have no idea how often this occurs in the real world, add a
debug statement so trigger whenever this occurs. I'd appreciate an
email if someone finds this particular situation is triggered.


237621 27-Jun-2012 adrian

Remove duplicate entries.


237611 26-Jun-2012 adrian

Bring over the initial 802.11n bluetooth coexistence support code.

The Linux ath9k btcoex code is based off of this code.

Note this doesn't actually implement functional btcoex; there's some
driver glue and a whole lot of verification that is required.

On the other hand, I do have the AR9285+BT and AR9287+BT NICs which
this code supports..

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros, Linux ath9k


237521 24-Jun-2012 adrian

On second thought, let's just set both CRC and PHY errors together on
frames that have it and let the upper layer sort it out.

PR: kern/169362


237519 24-Jun-2012 adrian

Sometimes the AR5416 sends back radar PHY errors with both the PHY error
and the CRC error bits set. The radar payload is correct.

When this happens, the stack doesn't see them PHY error frames and
isn't interpreted as a PHY error. So, no radar detection and no radiotap
PHY error handling.

Now, this may introduce some weird issues if the MAC sends up some other
combination of CRC error + PHY error frames; this commit would break that
and mark them as PHY errors instead of CRC errors.

I may tinker with this a little more to pass radar/early radar/spectral
frames up as PHY errors if the CRC bit is set, to restore the previous
behaviour (where if CRC is set on a PHY error frame, it's marked as a CRC
error rather than PHY error.)

Tested on: AR5416, over the air, to a USRP N200 which is generating a
large number of a variety of radar pulses.
TODO: Test on AR9130, AR9160, AR9280 (and maybe radar pulses on
2GHz on AR9285/AR9287.)

PR: kern/169362


236017 25-May-2012 adrian

Add some AR5416/AR5418 WAR's for power-on and suspend/resume:

* Now that ah_configPCIE is called for both power on and suspend/resume,
make sure the right bit(s) are cleared and set when suspending and
resuming. Specifically:

+ force disable/enable the PCIe PHY upon suspend/resume;
+ reprogram the PCIe WAR register when resuming and upon power-on.

* Add a recipe which powers down any PCIe PHY hardware inside the AR5416
(which is the PCI variant) to save on power. I have (currently) no way
to test exactly how much power is saved, if any.

Tested on:

* AR5416 cardbus - although unfortunately pccard/cbb/cardbus currently
detaches the NIC upon suspend, I don't think it's a proper test case.

* AR5418 PCIe attached to expresscard - since we're not doing PCIe APSM,
it's also not likely a full/good test case.

In both instances I went through a handful of suspend/resume cycles and
ensured that the STA vap reassociated correctly.

TODO:

* Setup a laptop to simply sit in a suspend/resume loop, making sure that
the NIC always correctly comes back;

* Start doing suspend/resume tests with actual traffic going on in the
background, as I bet this process is all quite racy at the present;

* Test adhoc/hostap mode, just to be completely sure it's working correctly;

* See if I can jury rig an external power source to an AR5416 to test out
whether ah_disablePCIE() works.

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros


236009 25-May-2012 adrian

* According to the reference code, AR_WA_D3_L1_DISBABLE is bit 14.
* Add some other WAR bits (very usefully described too) in preparation for
porting over some suspend/resume fixes from ath9k/Atheros.

Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros


235972 25-May-2012 adrian

oops - ath_hal_disablepcie is actually destined for another purpose,
not to disable the PCIe PHY in prepration for reset.

Extend the enablepci method to have a "poweroff" flag, which if equal
to true means the hardware is about to go to sleep.


235957 25-May-2012 adrian

Prepare for improved (read: pcie) suspend/resume support.

* Flesh out the pcie disable method for 11n chips, as they were defaulting
to the AR5212 (empty) PCIe disable method.

* Add accessor macros for the HAL PCIe enable/disable calls.

* Call disable on ath_suspend()

* Call enable on ath_resume()

NOTE:

* This has nothing to do with the NIC sleep/run state - the NIC still
will stay in network-run state rather than supporting network-sleep
state. This is preparation work for supporting correct suspend/resume
WARs for the 11n PCIe NICs.

TODO:

* It may be feasible at this point to keep the chip powered down during
initial probe/attach and only power it up upon the first configure/reset
pass. This however would require correct (for values of "correct")
tracking of the NIC power configuration state from the driver and that
just isn't attempted at the moment.

Tested:

* AR9280 on my Lenovo T60, but with no suspend/resume pass (yet).


234873 01-May-2012 adrian

Change the MIB cycle count API to return HAL_BOOL, rather than uint32_t,
to return whether it was successful.

Add placeholder (blank) methods for previous chips, for both it and
the 11n extension channel busy call.


234774 28-Apr-2012 adrian

After thinking about this a bit more, let's not keep statistics per-channel
in the HAL. That's very memory hungry (32k just for channel statistics)
which would be better served by keeping a summary in the ANI state.

Or, later, keep a survey history in net80211.

So:

* Migrate the ah_chansurvey array to be a single entry, for the current
channel.
* Change the ioctl interface and ANI code to just reference that.
* Clear the ah_chansurvey array during channel reset, both in the AR5212
and AR5416 reset path.


234768 28-Apr-2012 adrian

Although not strictly needed, quieten a compiler warning by a user.


234752 28-Apr-2012 adrian

Extend the ANI code to implement basic channel survey support.

* Always call ar5416GetListenTime()
* Modify ar5416GetListenTime() to:
+ don't update the ANI state if there isn't any ANI state;
+ don't update the channel survey state if there's no active
channel - just to be paranoid
+ copy the channel survey results into the current sample slot
based on the current channel; then increment the sample counter
and sample history counter.
* Modify ar5416GetMIBCyclesPct() to simply return a HAL_SURVEY_SAMPLE,
rather than a set of percentages. The ANI code wasn't using the
percentages anyway.

TODO:

* Create a new function which fetches the survey results periodically
* .. then modify the ANI code to use the pre-fetched values rather than
fetching them again
* Roll the 11n ext busy function from ar5416_misc.c to update all the
counters, then do the result calculation
* .. then, modify the MIB counter routine to correctly fetch a snapshot -
freeze the counters, fetch the values, then reset the counters.


234747 28-Apr-2012 adrian

Add an AR5416 PCU DMA stop method, as a check for the AR9130 is needed.

The reference driver has a 3ms delay for the AR9130 but I'm not as yet
sure why. From what I can gather, it's likely waiting for some FIFO
flush to occur.

At some point in the future it may be worthwhile adding a WMAC
FIFO flush here, but that'd require some side-call through to the SoC
DDR flush routines.

Obtained from: Atheros


234692 26-Apr-2012 adrian

Add the BT register definitions for AR9285/AR9287 BT coexistence.

Obtained from: Linux ath9k


234664 25-Apr-2012 adrian

Add placeholder methods for WMI command access (USB, perhaps SDIO later)
which will be needed for AR7010 and AR9287 USB access.

The names differ slightly from Linux and Atheros, for the sake of
consistency.

A lot more work is required in order to convert the 11n HAL support to
fully support USB.


234450 19-Apr-2012 adrian

Stop using the hardware register value byte order swapping for now,
at least until I can root cause what's going on.

The only platform I've seen this on is the AR9220 when attached to
the AR71xx CPUs. I get immediate PCIe bus errors and all subsequent
accesses cause further MIPS bus exceptions. I don't have any other
big-endian platforms to test this on.

If I get a chance (or two), I'll try to whack this on a bus analyser
and see exactly what happens.

I'd rather leave this on, especially for slower, embedded platforms.
But the #ifdef hell is something I'm trying to avoid.


234269 14-Apr-2012 adrian

Both linux ath9k and the reference driver initialises the PLL here
during chip wakeup.

Obtained from: Linux ath9k, Atheros


234088 10-Apr-2012 adrian

Squirrel away the SYNC interrupt in case we're doing interrupt debugging.


233900 04-Apr-2012 adrian

Track and optionally log the actual sync interrupt cause.

These are involved in tracking host interface issues (ie, PCI/PCIe/AHB
interface.)


233895 04-Apr-2012 adrian

Correctly handle AR_MoreAggr when assembling multi-descriptor final frames.

Linux ath9k doesn't have this issue as it doesn't try queuing multi-
descriptor frames to the hardware.

Before, I was only setting the first and last descriptor in the final
frame correctly - and that was done by accident. The first descriptor in
the last sub-frame was being correctly updated by ath_tx_setds_11n();
the last descriptor in the last sub-frame was being correctly updated
by ath_buf_set_rate(). But both of those are "incorrect".

The correct behaviour is:

* AR_IsAggr is set for all descriptors for all subframes in an aggregate.
* AR_MoreAggr is set for all descriptors for all non-final sub-frames
in an aggregate.

Ie, all descriptors in the last sub-frame of an aggregate must have this
field set to 0.

I still need to do a couple of extra passes to ensure the pad delimiter
field is being correctly handled in all descriptors in the last sub-frame.


233885 04-Apr-2012 adrian

Disable a specific Merlin hardware workaround which may cause hangs on some
PCIe controllers.

Obtained from: Atheros / Linux


233329 22-Mar-2012 adrian

Sprinkle some style(9) things around.


231927 20-Feb-2012 adrian

Break out the radar code into a separate source file.

This mirrors the internal HAL organisation and reduces the differences
between the HAL codebases slightly.

Obtained from: Atheros


231864 17-Feb-2012 adrian

Fix the return type.

Submitted by: arundel
Found by: clang/llvm


231709 14-Feb-2012 adrian

Fix the usefir128 config bit flipping.


231708 14-Feb-2012 adrian

Improve the radar register config API.

* Fix the "enabled" flag to actually reflect whether radar detection is
enabled or not.
* Add flags for the relstep/relpwr checks.


231371 10-Feb-2012 adrian

Enforce the hardware chainmask when allowing the user to override the
chainmask.

This way a disabled radio chain can't be enabled by a user.


231368 10-Feb-2012 adrian

Extend the HAL code to allow the RX and TX chainmask to be overridden
by capabilities.

Add an ar5416SetCapability() function, which contains logic to override
the chainmask and update the relevant stream.

This is designed to be called after the attach function, which presets
the TX/RX chainmask and stream.

TODO: check the chainmask against the hardware chainmask so non-existing
chains aren't enabled.


230847 31-Jan-2012 adrian

Support AR9281/AR5B91 - a 1x2 stream device based on the AR9280.

* Override the TX/RX stream count if the EEPROM reports a single RX or
TX stream, rather than assuming the device will always be a 2x2 strea
device.

* For AR9280 devices, don't hard-code 2x2 stream. Instead, allow the
ar5416FillCapabilityInfo() routine to correctly determine things.

The latter should be done for all 11n chips now that
ar5416FillCapabilityInfo() will set the TX/RX stream count based on the
active TX/RX chainmask in the EEPROM.

Thanks to Maciej Milewski for donating some AR9281 NICs to me for
testing.


228893 26-Dec-2011 adrian

AR5416 has 14 GPIO pins, from 0->13.


228889 26-Dec-2011 adrian

Update the hardware LED blinking code to do something useful rather than
relying on what the register defaults are.

This forces the blink mode to be proportional to the TX and RX frames
which match the RX filter.

This (along with a few tweaks to if_ath_led.c to configure the correct
GPIO pins) allows my DWA-552 AR5416 NIC to blink the LEDs in a useful
fashion, however those LEDs are marked "Link" and "Act(ivity)", which
don't really map well to the "power" / "network" LED interface which
the MAC provides. Some further tinkering is needed to see what other
useful operating modes are possible.


228837 23-Dec-2011 adrian

Disable the code which hard-sets the LEDs on. This prevents the LED
state from correctly updating things.

The reference driver directly enables/disables the LED state as required,
rather than nailing it up like it currently is. That'll have to come
later by adding some further HAL methods.

Obtained from: Atheros


228836 23-Dec-2011 adrian

Port over some more GPIO fixes from the atheros reference HAL.

* Bring the AR5416 GPIO mux mask code in line with the code from the
HAL.

* Add HAL_DEBUG_GPIO debugging statements, to track what's going on.

* Add Kiwi GPIO specific changes for reading values back.

Obtained from: Atheros


228834 23-Dec-2011 adrian

Port over some GPIO and LED fixes.

* As a preparation for AR9287 GPIO support, add in the AR9287 GPIO mask.
* Fix the association mask values; these are post-shift values but were
being shifted in twice. This resulted in some garbage being written
in the wrong place and the link LED (at least on my d-link AR5416
NIC) giving totally incorrect blink patterns.


228817 22-Dec-2011 adrian

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.

Submitted by: dim


228800 22-Dec-2011 dim

Revert r228786. We'll need to work around the warnings in another way.

Requested by: adrian
MFC after: 1 week


228786 21-Dec-2011 dim

Fix enum conversion problems in sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar5212/ar5212_misc.c
and sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar5416/ar5416_misc.c:

sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar5212/ar5212_misc.c:577:24: warning: implicit conversion from enumeration type 'HAL_STATUS' to different enumeration type 'HAL_BOOL' [-Wconversion]
return HAL_EINVAL;
~~~~~~ ^~~~~~~~~~

and:

sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar5416/ar5416_misc.c:164:9: warning: implicit conversion from enumeration type 'HAL_STATUS' to different enumeration type 'HAL_BOOL' [-Wconversion]
return HAL_OK;
~~~~~~ ^~~~~~

In both cases, enums HAL_BOOL and HAL_STATUS are mixed up.

MFC after: 1 week


228517 15-Dec-2011 adrian

Add the 11n chipset RF frontends to the linker set, even though they're not
attached this way.

The AR5212 based NICs have a variety of RF frontends, so there's a linker set
which the AR5212 attach routine calls. The same framework is used for the
AR5416 and later but as there's a fixed RF frontend for each 11n NIC, it
is just directly attached.

However in the case of compiling a cut down HAL (eg _just_ AR9130 WMAC support),
the linker set ends up being empty and this causes the compile to fail.

So this is just a workaround for that - it means those users who wish an 11n
only HAL can compile the 11n chipsets and RF frontend they need, and just
"ath_ar5212" for the AR5212/AR5416 common code, and it'll just work.

Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.


228515 15-Dec-2011 adrian

Use the correct RF version probe routine.

Obtained from: Atheros
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.


227741 19-Nov-2011 adrian

Add some (totally untested!) code to correctly set the RF half/quarter
mode configuration registers. This is apparently required for correct
behaviour, but also requires the chip to actually officially support it.

Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.


227468 12-Nov-2011 adrian

Disable writing to the extension CYCPWR1 register.
This seems to make ANI behave better on the AR5416/AR5418.

Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.


227411 09-Nov-2011 adrian

Bump this up to where it used to be.

I need to investigate this a little closer, but it seems that in noisy
environments the NF load takes longer than 5 * DELAY(10) and this is
messing up future NF calibrations. (The background: NF calibrations
begin at the value programmed in after the load has completed, so
if this is never loaded in, the NF calibrations only ever start at
the currently calibrated NF value, rather than starting at something
high (say -50.)

More investigation about the effect on 11n RX and calibration results
are needed.

Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.


227410 09-Nov-2011 adrian

Introduce a work-around for issues with the AR5416 based MAC on SMP devices.

The AR5416 MAC (which shows up in the AR5008, AR9001, AR9002 devices) has
issues with PCI transactions on SMP machines. This work-around enforces
that register access is serialised through a (global for now) spinlock.

This should stop the hangs people have seen with the AR5416 PCI devices
on SMP hosts.

Obtained by: Linux, Atheros


227408 09-Nov-2011 adrian

Commit a missing fix - the AR_SREV_KIWI_10_OR_LATER() check.


227405 09-Nov-2011 adrian

Even though the HAL doesn't currently support Kiwi 1.0/1.1,
be "more correct" about the Kiwi setup.

Obtained from: Atheros


227388 09-Nov-2011 adrian

* Force the MAC to wakeup before we try resetting it, to ensure
it actually _gets_ reset properly.
* Add some more comments describing why things are done.

Obtained from: Atheros


227381 09-Nov-2011 adrian

Migrate the AR5416 ANI code to use the previously introduced method
to fetch the current channel busy statistics, rather than duplicating
it here.

This forms the (very crude) basis for doing basic channel surveying.

Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.


227380 09-Nov-2011 adrian

Disable OFDM weak signal detection by default. Leave this to be
enabled if required by STA operation.

This quietens a lot of OFDM errors seen in hostap mode, where
there are no beacon RSSI levels to tune the dynamic range of the
baseband.

This may reduce reception range at the fringes, but does increase
stability.

Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.


227379 09-Nov-2011 adrian

Use a restricted set of parameters when operating in hostap mode.

The 5ghz hostap mode (where DFS is being done) requires ANI to be disabled
or the radar detection parameters don't work as advertised (as they're based
on signal strength level, and tweaking ANI affects the signal strangth,
dynamic range and power increase the baseband is looking for in order to
detect it as a "signal".)

Obtained from: Linux, Atheros
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.


227378 09-Nov-2011 adrian

Add logic to ANI to tweak the firstep parameter when in hostap mode.
This is normally done based on the beacon RSSI but this isn't available
in hostap mode.

Obtained from: Atheros
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.


227377 09-Nov-2011 adrian

.. and add some ANI fixes missing from the last ANI commit.

Obtained from: Atheros
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.


227376 09-Nov-2011 adrian

Include some ANI fixes for the AR5416.

* If we fall through from an ANI command (eg because it's out of range,
or it's disabled) then fall through to the next ANI command rather then
being stuck there.

* Fix some off-by-one comparisons, meaning the final level in some parameters
were never tweaked.

Obtained from: Atheros
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.


227375 09-Nov-2011 adrian

Add a new HAL parameter which forces a full reset rather than warm reset.
This forces a full reset of the baseband/radio and seems needed to clear
some issues (with Merlin at least) when the baseband gets confused in a
very noisy environment.

Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.


227374 09-Nov-2011 adrian

Port over a new routine which grabs the percentage of time spent in TX frame, RX frame,
RX clear, RX extension clear.

This is useful for estimating channel business.

The same routines should be written for AR5210->AR5212 where appopriate.

Obtained from: Atheros


227372 09-Nov-2011 adrian

Try to make it more obvious when users are using the PCI or PCIe versions of
the 11n chips.


227365 08-Nov-2011 adrian

Fix the KTR option to compile by default - it was referencing
some unmerged interrupt status debugging code from my branch.

* Add ah_intrstate[8] which will have the record of the last
call to ath_hal_getintr().
* Wrap the KTR code behind ATH_KTR_INTR_DEBUG.
* Add the HAL interrupt debugging behind AH_INTERRUPT_DEBUGGING.

This is only done for the AR5416 and later NICs but it will be
trivial to add to the earlier NICs if required.

Neither are enabled by default, although to minimise HAL binary
API differences, the ah_intrstate[] array is always compiled into
the ath_hal struct.


227080 04-Nov-2011 adrian

Call the correct chipset power routine when disabling the AR5416 and later NICs.


226767 25-Oct-2011 adrian

Add in some more 11n related HAL methods.


226764 25-Oct-2011 adrian

Add some fixes to the 11n aggregation HAL calls:

* preserve AR_TxIntrReq on every descriptor in an aggregate chain,
not just the first descriptor;
* always blank out the descriptor in ar5416ChainTxDesc() when forming
aggregates - the way I'm using this in the 11n branch is to first
chain aggregates together, then use the other HAL calls to fill in
the details.


226762 25-Oct-2011 adrian

Correct/complete a partially-disabled TX interrupt mitigation configuration.

Although a previous commit disabled TX interrupt mitigation handling and
configuration, the mask register bits weren't setup correctly.


226761 25-Oct-2011 adrian

Fix an incorrect flag.

Obtained from: Atheros


226760 25-Oct-2011 adrian

Save and restore the association ID across interface resets.

Obtained from: Atheros
MFC after: 1 week


226759 25-Oct-2011 adrian

Add some 11n bits from the if_ath_tx 11n branch:

* Add the TID field in the TX status descriptor;
* Add in the 11n first/middle/last functions for fiddling
with the descriptors. These are from the Linux and the
reference driver, but I'm not (currently) using them.
* Add further AR_ISR_S5 register definitions.

Obtained from: Linux ath9k, Atheros


226758 25-Oct-2011 adrian

Reduce the NF wait timeout. When doing heavy 11n RX loads, this can actually
interfere with traffic, as the NF load can take quite a while and poking the
AGC every 10uS is just a bit silly.

Instead, just leave the baseband NF calibration where it is and just read it
back next time a longcal interval happens.


226488 18-Oct-2011 adrian

Implement the first part of the BB read workaround.

The AR5008/AR9001 series NICs have a bug where BB register reads
will occasionally be corrupted. This could cause issues with things
such as ANI, which adjust operational parameters based on the
BB radio register reads. This was introduced in the AR5008 chip
and fixed with the first released AR9002 series NIC (AR9280v2.)

A followup commit will implement the acutal WAR when reading
BB registers. I'm still not sure how I'll implement it - whether
it should be done in the osdep layer, or whether it should just
live in the AR5416 HAL. Either way, they can use this capability
bit to determine whether to implement the WAR or not.

Thankyou to various sources inside Atheros who have helped me track
down what this particular issue is.

Obtained from: Atheros


225957 04-Oct-2011 adrian

Add an AR5416 aware version of the "current RSSI" function.

Pre-11n devices and AR5416 use AR_PHY(263) for current RX RSSI.
AR9130 and later have a fourth calibration register (for doing
ADC calibration) and thus the register has moved to AR_PHY(271).

This isn't currently used by any of the active code; I'm committing
this for completeness and in case any third party code attempts to
use it for legacy reasons.


225934 03-Oct-2011 adrian

Port over the radar pulse decoding code common to the AR5416 and later chipsets.

Obtained from: Atheros


225926 02-Oct-2011 adrian

Remove an unused variable.


225925 02-Oct-2011 adrian

Various interrupt handling and RX interrupt mitigation fixes.

* The AR_ISR_RAC interrupt processing method has a subtle bug in all
the MAC revisions (including pre-11n NICs) until AR9300v2.
If you're unlucky, the clear phase clears an update to one of the
secondary registers, which includes TX status.

This shows up as a "watchdog timeout" if you're doing very low levels
of TX traffic. If you're doing a lot of non-11n TX traffic, you'll
end up receiving a TX interrupt from some later traffic anyway.

But when TX'ing 11n aggregation session traffic (which -HEAD isn't yet
doing), you may find that you're only able to TX one frame (due to
BAW restrictions) and this may end up hitting this race condition.

The only solution is to not use RAC and instead use AR_ISR and the
AR_ISR_Sx registers. The bit in AR_ISR which represents the secondary
registers are not cleared; only the AR_ISR_Sx bits are. This way
any updates which occur between the read and subsequent write will
stay asserted and (correctly) trigger a subsequent interrupt.

I've tested this on the AR5416, AR9160, AR9280. I will soon test
the AR9285 and AR9287.

* The AR_ISR TX and RX bits (and all others!) are set regardless of
whether the contents of the AR_IMR register. So if RX mitigation is
enabled, RXOK is going to be set in AR_ISR and it would normally set
HAL_INT_RX.

Fix the code to not set HAL_INT_RX when RXOK is set and RX mitigation
is compiled in. That way the RX path isn't prematurely called.

I would see:

* An interrupt would come in (eg a beacon, or TX completion) where
RXOK was set but RXINTM/RXMINT wasn't;
* ath_rx_proc() be called - completing RX frames;
* RXINTM/RXMINT would then fire;
* ath_rx_proc() would then be called again but find no frames in the
queue.

This fixes the RX mitigation behaviour to not overly call ath_rx_proc().

* Start to flesh out more correct timer interrupt handling - it isn't
kite/merlin specific. It's actually based on whether autosleep support
is enabled or not.

This is sourced from my 11n TX branch and has been tested for a few weeks.

Finally, the interrupt handling change should likely be implemented
for AR5210, AR5211 and AR5212.


225924 02-Oct-2011 adrian

Document exactly what the RX interrupt mitigation timers do.


225922 02-Oct-2011 adrian

For now (ie: until autosleep support is fully fleshed out), always clear
all of the RX status fields when initialising a new RX descriptor.


225921 02-Oct-2011 adrian

Disable TX interrupt mitigation just for the time being.

There are some timing concerns which I've yet to fully map out.
In any case, there's an existing software driven mitigation method
for TX interrupts and when TX'ing 11n frames, the whole frame itself
generates an interrupt rather then the subframes.


225883 30-Sep-2011 adrian

Fix a corner case in the HAL debugging changes, where ah was NULL.

Although I tried to fix this earlier by introducing HALDEBUG_G(), it
turns out there seem to be other cases where the pointer value is still
NULL.

* Fix DO_HALDEBUG() and the HALDEBUG macro to check whether ah is NULL
before deferencing it
* Remove HALDEBUG_G() as it's no longer needed

This is hopefully a merge candidate for 9.0-RELEASE as enabling
debugging at startup could result in a kernel panic.


225820 28-Sep-2011 adrian

Change the default CABQ time to be 70% of the beacon interval,
rather than the whole beacon interval.

The reference driver and Linux ath9k both choose 80% of the
beacon interval and they do it in the driver rather than
the HAL (Ath reference) or ath9k_hw (ath9k.)

This quietens stuck beacon conditions on my AR9220/AR9280
based NICs when a lot of burst broadcast/multicast traffic
is going on. It doesn't seem to annoy the earlier MACs as
much as the AR9280 and later one.

Obtained from: Linux ath9k, Atheros


225819 28-Sep-2011 adrian

The AR5212 setup path (also used by the AR5416 code) configures a
local variable with a beacon interval of 100 TU. This never gets modified
if the beacon interval configuration changes.

This may have been correct in earlier times, but with the advent of
staggered beacons (which default to 1 / ATH_BCBUF beacon interval, so
25 TU here) this value is incorrect.

It is used to configure the default CABQ readytime. So here, the cabq
was being configured to be much greater than the target beacon timer
(TBTT.)

The driver should be configuring a cabq readytime value rather then
leaving it to the HAL to choose sensible defaults. This should be
done in the future - I'm simply trying to ensure sensible defaults
are chosen.


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)


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)


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)


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)


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)


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)


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


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


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


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


222315 26-May-2011 adrian

Make sure only two chains are calibrated for the AR9287.


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


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.


222054 18-May-2011 adrian

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


222020 17-May-2011 adrian

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


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.


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.


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.


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


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().


221701 09-May-2011 adrian

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


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.)


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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


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.


220598 13-Apr-2011 adrian

Change this to be less noisy.


220539 11-Apr-2011 adrian

De-dup the ar5416 rates array definition.


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.


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.


220294 03-Apr-2011 adrian

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


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.


219984 25-Mar-2011 adrian

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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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().


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.


219443 10-Mar-2011 adrian

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

Obtained from: Linux ath9k


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.


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


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.


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.


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.


218690 14-Feb-2011 adrian

bring this in line with what ath9k does.


218441 08-Feb-2011 adrian

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


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


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.


218170 01-Feb-2011 adrian

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

Approved by: rpaulo@


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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


217687 21-Jan-2011 adrian

Fix some typos.


217686 21-Jan-2011 adrian

Add missing getCapability call for AR5416.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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


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.


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.


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


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


206496 12-Apr-2010 rpaulo

Remove svn:executable prop.


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


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>


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.


203750 10-Feb-2010 rpaulo

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

Pointed out by: sam


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.


201758 07-Jan-2010 mbr

Remove extraneous semicolons, no functional changes.

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


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)


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)


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


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


191909 08-May-2009 sam

kill more portability functions that are no longer useful


191864 06-May-2009 sam

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


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)


189604 09-Mar-2009 sam

remove ar9160Detach; it does nothing


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)


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>


188084 03-Feb-2009 sam

fix compilation w/ AH_DEBUG


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


187611 23-Jan-2009 sam

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


186333 19-Dec-2008 sam

add FreeBSD property


185521 01-Dec-2008 sam

import ath hal


185418 28-Nov-2008 sam

add chip+rf names for debug msgs, showing compiled-in support, etc.


185406 28-Nov-2008 sam

Replace most compile-time support options with linker sets for
chip and RF backend support:
o add OS_DATA_SET and OS_SET_DECLARE os requirements for setting
up linker sets
o add AH_CHIP macro for registering chip support (e.g. 5210)
o add AH_RF macro for registering RF support (e.g. 2413); note
this isn't required for single chip solutions where there's no
ambiguity (e.g. 5416/9160+2133) but for 5212 class parts it's
required because of the multi-chip solutions
o remove all uses of AH_SUPPORT_AR5210, AH_SUPPORT_AR5211, AH_SUPPORT_5212,
and AH_SUPPORT_AR9160; still need AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 to enable the 11n
descriptor formats and 5312 support is presently broken
o remove all uses of AH_SUPPORT_2133, AH_SUPPORT_2413, AH_SUPPORT_5111,
AH_SUPPORT_5112, AH_SUPPORT_2417, AH_SUPPORT_2425, and AH_SUPPORT_5413;
5312-related support still requires fixup

Remaining issues:
o fixup SoC attach
o ath_hal_attach uses a hack to probe w/o access to the vendorid
o fallback handling of parts w/o a macrev needs to be restored


185380 28-Nov-2008 sam

Update to later code from my repository:
o many bug fixes
o add new periodic calibration api
o break up 5416 periodic calibration code in preparation for 928x
o move get noise floor to rf backends
o 5416-specific ani (still disabled)
o modularize 5210 eeprom format a la other eeprom formats
o start cleaning up regdomain code
o prepare for proper 1/2 and 1/4 width channel support
o bring back 900MHz card support
o clean up 5212 rf version handling
o add 1/2 and 1/4 width channel support for 5212 parts
o split 5212 rfgain handling out
o improve ani debugging
o add AH_USE_INIPDGAIN compile option
o purge a bunch of dead 5212 state
o add 1/2 and 1/4 rate modes
o remove HAL_CAP_CHAN_HALFRATE and HAL_CAP_CHAN_QUARTERRATE; the
same info can now be deduced from the set of supported modes


185377 28-Nov-2008 sam

virgin import of ath hal