From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail2.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.173]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.87 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1cZN7Z-0007rD-Jn for ath10k@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:32:44 +0000 Subject: Re: 9984 VHT References: <87y3xtrmn2.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <44480bab-0cf7-f4e3-7612-b1cf5d4c040f@dd-wrt.com> <1a58440c-80c9-0a86-aae9-213edc5b0019@candelatech.com> <8bcf2ea6-802f-f249-8e2d-96ec03553a9b@candelatech.com> <23b1bd75-a7f9-08e7-5d7b-f67081b89e1b@candelatech.com> <5e23ea91-429e-eff6-7443-e4d4f5981735@dd-wrt.com> <785bdbc1-fcf5-921b-2092-6142d51aa0ce@candelatech.com> <14bd9f40-a79c-5032-778f-2f2ae92afccc@dd-wrt.com> <53e8f5d9-9f0d-7386-4de2-46f6e1b26c36@dd-wrt.com> From: Ben Greear Message-ID: <941cc332-782e-897b-ba77-4e6682836f68@candelatech.com> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 11:32:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <53e8f5d9-9f0d-7386-4de2-46f6e1b26c36@dd-wrt.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "ath10k" Errors-To: ath10k-bounces+kvalo=adurom.com@lists.infradead.org To: Sebastian Gottschall , "Valo, Kalle" Cc: "ath10k@lists.infradead.org" On 02/02/2017 11:29 AM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote: > Am 02.02.2017 um 20:18 schrieb Ben Greear: >> On 02/02/2017 11:08 AM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote: >>> Am 02.02.2017 um 20:05 schrieb Ben Greear: >>>> On 02/02/2017 10:42 AM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote: >>>>> Am 02.02.2017 um 19:24 schrieb Ben Greear: >>>>>> On 02/02/2017 08:18 AM, Ben Greear wrote: >>>>>>> On 02/01/2017 10:45 AM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote: >>>>>>>> Am 01.02.2017 um 17:48 schrieb Ben Greear: >>>>>>>>> On 01/30/2017 02:28 AM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Hello >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> with recent 9984 firmares vht160 seem to crash the firmware itself for no reason i see. >>>>>>>>>> is there any internal structure change in these newer firmwares we need to consider? >>>>>>>>>> i also tested the even more recent firmware firmware-5.bin_10.4-3.4-00068 from codeaurora. this one doesnt crash but the vdev_start returns with a error >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> i compared the more recent wmi headers from the qca drivers, but wasnt able to find anything which could explain the behaviour >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Sebastian >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hello Sebastian, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Could you share the hostapd/supplicant config file you are using? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> And, what kernel (or backports kernel) are you using? I'd like to >>>>>>>>> see how 160Mhz works on my firmware.... >>>>>>>> always state of art for sure >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Using a somewhat hacked 4.9.2+ kernel and my CT firmware, I get failure to start CAC: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1486052184.818710: Mode: IEEE 802.11a Channel: 100 Frequency: 5500 MHz >>>>>>> 1486052184.818714: DFS 8 channels required radar detection >>>>>>> 1486052184.818717: DFS all channels available, (SKIP CAC): no >>>>>>> 1486052184.818719: DFS 0 chans unavailable - choose other channel: no >>>>>>> 1486052184.818722: vap0: interface state COUNTRY_UPDATE->DFS >>>>>>> 1486052184.818725: DFS start CAC on 5500 MHz >>>>>>> 1486052184.818733: vap0: DFS-CAC-START freq=5500 chan=100 sec_chan=1, width=2, seg0=114, seg1=0, cac_time=60s >>>>>>> 1486052184.818737: nl80211: Start radar detection (CAC) 5500 MHz (ht_enabled=1, vht_enabled=1, bandwidth=160 MHz, cf1=5570 MHz, cf2=0 MHz) >>>>>>> 1486052184.818742: * freq=5500 >>>>>>> 1486052184.818745: * vht_enabled=1 >>>>>>> 1486052184.818747: * ht_enabled=1 >>>>>>> 1486052184.818749: * bandwidth=160 >>>>>>> 1486052184.818751: * channel_width=5 >>>>>>> 1486052184.818754: * center_freq1=5570 >>>>>>> 1486052184.818756: * center_freq2=0 >>>>>>> 1486052184.823437: nl80211: Failed to start radar detection: -16 (Device or resource busy) >>>>>>> 1486052184.823444: DFS start_dfs_cac() failed, -1 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'll go dig around to see if I can figure out why... >>>>>> >>>>>> I hacked ath10k to enable radar detection on 160Mhz bandwidths. Now hostapd >>>>>> starts. >>>>>> >>>>>> I can reproduce the FW failure. It is because FW 3.3-25 release started asserting >>>>>> if the freq2 was zero in VHT160 mode. It seems to use both freq1 and freq2, and not >>>>>> how the driver or linux seems to normally use them. >>>>> its even worse. starting from 3.3 it uses freq2 instead of freq1. but i made a patch for it. but it still wont work. vdev_start still fails >>>> >>>> Well it would have been helpful from the start to have known about this patch. >>> i wasnt sure about it at that time. since it did not work >>>> >>>> Could you post it? >>> --- wmi.c (revision 3267) >>> +++ wmi.c (working copy) >>> @@ -1637,11 +1637,12 @@ >>> flags |= WMI_CHAN_FLAG_DFS; >>> >>> ch->mhz = __cpu_to_le32(arg->freq); >>> + ch->band_center_freq2 = 0; >>> ch->band_center_freq1 = __cpu_to_le32(arg->band_center_freq1); >>> if (arg->mode == MODE_11AC_VHT80_80) >>> ch->band_center_freq2 = __cpu_to_le32(arg->band_center_freq2); >>> - else >>> - ch->band_center_freq2 = 0; >>> + if (arg->mode == MODE_11AC_VHT160) >>> + ch->band_center_freq2 = __cpu_to_le32(arg->band_center_freq1); >>> ch->min_power = arg->min_power; >>> ch->max_power = arg->max_power; >>> ch->reg_power = arg->max_reg_power; >> >> That would not appear to work with my FW, but, my FW's comments don't seem to match >> it's code, so I am not sure where all the bugs lie. Maybe re-check the source of this >> patch above to make sure you got it right? > its right if you already applied the vht160 patch which is in git already since a while (wireless-next) > in openwrt the staging tree of nbd contains the same source which which fits to this patch > but if it wont apply to you you have to update your whole wireless source to latest version since you did not have the required vht160 patches I mean the content of the patch is invalid, not a merge issue. Try setting freq1 to center-freq of the primary 80Mhz channel. And set freq2 to center-freq of the 160Mhz channel. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list ath10k@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k