[PATCHv3 2/2] ath10k: Allow setting coverage class

[Ben Greear]

On 10/16/2017 12:12 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> hiya,
>
> I'd honestly rather see firmware changes for wave 2 chips, as I know
> there's a lot more MAC changes messing up this stuff ..

For wave-1, it appears to be quite simple to modify the firmware to set
the ack-cts register to a specific value (and re-set it after scanning,
etc).

Is the wave-2 stuff that much different?  I've recently hooked in my
CT firmware for wave-1 to support the driver's ack/cts calculations
(but without needing all the manual register twiddling).  I could probably
do the same for 9984 if it mattered.  But, that still doesn't help stock
driver/firmware users.

Thanks,
Ben

>
>
>
> -adrian
>
>
> On 16 October 2017 at 12:10, Sebastian Gottschall
> <s.gottschall at dd-wrt.com> wrote:
>> Am 16.10.2017 um 19:59 schrieb Adrian Chadd:
>>>
>>> On 16 October 2017 at 10:57, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 08/25/2016 06:25 AM, Benjamin Berg wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately ath10k does not generally allow modifying the coverage
>>>>> class
>>>>> with the stock firmware and Qualcomm has so far refused to implement
>>>>> this
>>>>> feature so that it can be properly supported in ath10k. If we however
>>>>> know
>>>>> the registers that need to be modified for proper operation with a
>>>>> higher
>>>>> coverage class, then we can do these modifications from the driver.
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch implements this hack for first generation cards which are
>>>>> based
>>>>> on a core that is similar to ath9k. The registers are modified in place
>>>>> and
>>>>> need to be re-written every time the firmware sets them. To achieve this
>>>>> the register status is verified after certain WMI events from the
>>>>> firmware.
>>>>>
>>>>> The coverage class may not be modified temporarily right after the card
>>>>> re-initializes the registers. This is for example the case during
>>>>> scanning.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks to Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall at dd-wrt.com> for initially
>>>>> working on a userspace support for this. This patch wouldn't have been
>>>>> possible without this documentation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Do you happen to know the maximum distance that can work with this
>>>> patch enabled?  The register value maximum seems to be 0x3FFF, but I
>>>> am not sure of the units (nor how exactly that applies to distance).
>>>
>>> It's in MAC clocks still, right? So it depends on how fast the MAC
>>> clock timer runs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -adrian
>>
>>
>> if someone is interested i can provide a patch witch works as well for 998x
>> and 9984 and usually other newer chipsets too.
>>
>> but clock parameters need to be adjusted for these newer ones. the only
>> problem is that its based on unoffical registers which arent documented and
>> the patch for the 99xx chipsets is very different from 988x
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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