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Originally in order to read partial registers from large area, we write
a range value stored into a static variable and read registers according
to the static variable.
However, if we install more than one adapters supported by this driver,
the static variables will be overwritten by latter adapters. To resolve
the problem, move the static variables to struct rtw_dev for each adapter.
With changes, smatch spends too much time to parse rtw_debugfs_init():
debug.c:1289 rtw_debugfs_init() parse error: turning off implications
after 60 seconds
Move stuffs of adding debugfs entries to three rtw_debugfs_add_xxx()
functions.
Reported-by: Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/cd6a2acf3c2c36d938b40140b52a779516f446a9.camel@realtek.com/T/#m27662022c70d9f893ba96f6c6a8dd8fce2434dfe
Tested-by: Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240718064155.38955-1-pkshih@realtek.com
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The Realtek wifi 5 devices which support USB 3 are weird: when first
plugged in, they pretend to be USB 2. The driver needs to send some
commands to the device, which make it disappear and come back as a
USB 3 device.
Implement the required commands in rtw88.
When a USB 3 device is plugged into a USB 2 port, rtw88 will try to
switch it to USB 3 mode only once. The device will disappear and come
back still in USB 2 mode, of course.
Some people experience heavy interference in the 2.4 GHz band in
USB 3 mode, so add a module parameter switch_usb_mode with the
default value 1 to let people disable the switching.
Signed-off-by: Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/77906c62-5674-426f-bde1-1b2a12a0339d@gmail.com
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Driver throws messages when scanning with a lot of traffic, because packets
in TX buffer can not be transmitted in time. Since this is a common
occurrence, change them to debug message with special debug mask that
developers can turn on this mask by default for further analysis.
Cc: Lewis Robbins <lewis.robbins2@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Lewis Robbins <lewis.robbins2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240418002916.5965-1-pkshih@realtek.com
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Remove unnecessary wrapper of rtw_dbg(), and just call it directly.
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231122061429.34487-1-pkshih@realtek.com
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The coming dump function for FW malfunction will add a function to
dump registers to reflect status. However, if we are not debugging
the mechanism, we don't print anything, so avoid reading registers by
checking debug mask to reduce IO.
Signed-off-by: Chin-Yen Lee <timlee@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231016053554.744180-2-pkshih@realtek.com
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Add a sub-driver for SDIO based chipsets which implements the following
functionality:
- register accessors for 8, 16 and 32 bits for all states of the card
(including usage of 4x 8 bit access for one 32 bit buffer if the card
is not fully powered on yet - or if it's fully powered on then 1x 32
bit access is used)
- checking whether there's space in the TX FIFO queue to transmit data
- transfers from the host to the device for actual network traffic,
reserved pages (for firmware download) and H2C (host-to-card)
transfers
- receiving data from the device
- deep power saving state
The transmit path is optimized so DMA-capable SDIO host controllers can
directly use the buffers provided because the buffer's physical
addresses are 8 byte aligned.
The receive path is prepared to support RX aggregation where the
chipset combines multiple MAC frames into one bigger buffer to reduce
SDIO transfer overhead.
Co-developed-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230405200729.632435-3-martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com
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Larry reported funny log entries [1] when he used rtl8821ce. These
messages are not harmless, but not useful for users, so change them to
rtw_dbg() level. By the way, I review all rtw_info() and change others
to rtw_warn().
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/c356d5ae-a7b3-3065-1121-64c446e70333@lwfinger.net/
Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220218035527.9835-1-pkshih@realtek.com
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Declare this function allows us to use customized scanning policy.
By doing so we can be more time efficient on each scan. In order to
make existing coex mechanism work as usual, firmware notifies driver
on each channel switch event, then decide antenna ownership based on
the current channel/band. Do note that this new mechanism affects
throughput more than the sw_scan we used to have, but the overall
average throughput is not affected since each scan take less time.
Since the firmware size is limited, we only support probe requests
with custom IEs length under 128 bytes for now, if any user space
tools requires more than that, we'll introduce related changes
afterwards. For backward compatibility, we fallback to sw_scan when
using older firmware that does not support this feature.
Signed-off-by: Po-Hao Huang <phhuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211221085010.39421-1-pkshih@realtek.com
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Current adaptivity mechanism is achieved in driver, by periodically
referencing the IGI value and then updating related registers.
But we find that this way may halt TX activity too long if huge
and temporary energy is detected frequently. So we move the mechanism
to firmware for immediately reacting this case to recover TX rapidly.
Signed-off-by: Chin-Yen Lee <timlee@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210830072014.12250-5-pkshih@realtek.com
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This feature chooses to transmit with antenna that has better signal
strength periodically under 1ss rate.
It can benefit connection quality in the following cases:
1. User is far away from the AP.
2. The far-field pattern of the antenna showed significant signal
strength difference.
Signed-off-by: Po-Hao Huang <phhuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210426013252.5665-2-pkshih@realtek.com
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Add CFO tracking, which stands for central frequency offset tracking, to
adjust oscillator to align central frequency of connected AP. Then, it can
yield better performance.
Signed-off-by: Po-Hao Huang <phhuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210416030901.7099-1-pkshih@realtek.com
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Add message for debugging usage and the program flow is no change.
Add a variable reserved for WLAN firmware synchronize.
Add a group of variable to save BT packet counter, it will be
assigned as mechanism judgment in the future. Now it is just for
debug usage.
Signed-off-by: Ching-Te Ku <ku920601@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126021059.11981-3-pkshih@realtek.com
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Wake on WLAN(wowlan) is a feature which allows devices
to be woken up from suspend state through wlan events.
When user enables wowlan feature and then let the device
enter suspend state, wowlan firmware will be loaded by
the driver and periodically monitors wifi packets.
Power consumption of wifi chip will be reduced in this
state.
If wowlan firmware detects that specific wlan event
happens, it will issue wakeup signal to trigger resume
process. Driver will load normal firmware and let wifi
chip return to the original state.
Currently supported wlan events include receiving magic packet,
rekey packet and deauth packet, and disconnecting from AP.
Signed-off-by: Chin-Yen Lee <timlee@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Enable MU-MIMO transmit beamformee support for chipset 8822b and 8822c.
If the driver is in station mode and associated with an AP, and the
capabilities of both meet the requirement of beamforming, driver will
run as a beamformee and the corresponding chip settings will be set.
In addition, module parameter support_bf is added to enable or disable
beamforming. Sometimes driver will need to disable for inter-operate
issues, and it would be easier for driver to debug.
Signed-off-by: Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Deep power save allows firmware/hardware to operate in a
lower power state. And the deep power save mode depends on
LPS mode. So, before entering deep PS, driver must first
enter LPS mode.
Under Deep PS, most of hardware functions are shutdown,
driver will not be able to read/write registers and transfer
data to the device. Hence TX path must be protected by each
interface. Take PCI for example, DMA engine should be idle,
and no nore activities on the PCI bus.
If driver wants to operate on the device, such as register
read/write, it must first acquire the mutex lock and wake
up from Deep PS, otherwise the behavior is undefined.
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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This is a new mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips.
rtw88 now supports RTL8822BE/RTL8822CE now, with basic station mode
functionalities. The firmware for both can be found at linux-firmware.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
For RTL8822BE: rtw88/rtw8822b_fw.bin
For RTL8822CE: rtw88/rtw8822c_fw.bin
And for now, only PCI buses (RTL8xxxE) are supported. We will add support
for USB and SDIO in the future. The bus interface abstraction can be seen
in this driver such as hci.h. Most of the hardware setting are the same
except for some TRX path or probing setup should be separated.
Supported:
* Basic STA/AP/ADHOC mode, and TDLS (STA is well tested)
Missing feature:
* WOW/PNO
* USB & SDIO bus (such as RTL8xxxU/RTL8xxxS)
* BT coexistence (8822B/8822C are combo ICs)
* Multiple interfaces (for now single STA is better supported)
* Dynamic hardware calibrations (to improve/stabilize performance)
Potential problems:
* static calibration spends too much time, and it is painful for
driver to leave IDLE state. And slows down associate process.
But reload function are under development, will be added soon!
* TRX statictics misleading, as we are not reporting status correctly,
or say, not reporting for "every" packet.
The next patch set should have BT coexistence code since RTL8822B/C are
combo ICs, and the driver for BT can be found after Linux Kernel v4.20.
So it is better to add it first to make WiFi + BT work concurrently.
Although now rtw88 is simple but we are developing more features for it.
Even we want to add support for more chips such as RTL8821C/RTL8814B.
Finally, rtw88 has many authors, listed alphabetically:
Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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