iwlwifi is the driver of all Intel wifi devices since 2008.
Since then, the hardware has changed a lot, but the firmware
API has changed even more. The need to keep one driver that
supports all those different APIs led us to introduce a new
architecture circa 2012 which allowed us to keep the same
interface to the hardware (DMAs, Tx queues, etc...) with a
new layer to implement the mid-layer between mac80211 and
the firmware. The first component is called the 'transport'
and the latter is called 'operation_mode' a.k.a op_mode.
In 2013 we took advantage of the new architecture to
introduce iwlmvm which allowed us to implement the, then,
new firmware API. This op_mode supports 7260 and up, those
devices supports support at least VHT.
Since then, wifi evolved and so did the firmware. It became
much bigger and took a lot of functionality from the driver.
It became increasingly hard to keep the same op_mode for the
newest devices and we experienced frequent regressions on
older devices. In order to avoid those regressions and keep
the code maintainable, we decided it was about time to start
a new op_mode.
iwlmld is a new op_mode that supports BE200 or newer if the
firmware being used is 97.ucode or newer. If the user has
an older devices or BE200 with .96.ucode, iwlmvm will be
loaded. Of course, this op_mode selection is seamless.
All the features supported in iwlmvm are supported in
iwlmld besides a few seldom used use cases: injection and
Hotspot 2.0. Those are under work.
A few points about the implementation:
* iwlmld doesn't have any mutexes, it relies on the
wiphy_lock
* iwlmld is more "resource oriented": stations, links and
interfaces are allocated and freed only after all the
relevant flows are completed.
* Firmware notifications' sizes are validated in a more
structured way.
We would love to see this new op_mode merged in 6.15. The
firmware for this new driver (.97.ucode) is not yet publicly
available but it'll be sent very soon.
People eager to get an early version of this firmware can
contact Emmanuel at:
emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com
I've listed the people who directly contributed
code, but many others from various teams have
contributed in other ways.
Co-developed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Gabay <daniel.gabay@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gabay <daniel.gabay@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Anjaneyulu <pagadala.yesu.anjaneyulu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anjaneyulu <pagadala.yesu.anjaneyulu@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Yedidya Benshimol <yedidya.ben.shimol@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yedidya Benshimol <yedidya.ben.shimol@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20250216094321.537988-1-miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com/
[fix Kconfig, fix api/phy.h includes, SPDX tag and coding
style issues, duplicated includes per 0-day robot]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fix all the prototype mismatch and "wrong kernel-doc identifier"
warnings, due to typos in or misformatting of the kernel-doc.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240625194805.6ec65cf9b88c.I7804114d7369f352e80a0e8430f7119af8e210de@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Send AP_TX_POWER_CONSTRAINTS_CMD with no local maximum transmit
power constraint to FW and FW will update the TPE element with
required tx power limits.
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Sisodiya <mukesh.sisodiya@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240416134215.b6af4ecfcfe8.I07e8db349190e0c58c468c18477d8551288ac069@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
When this code was implemented, there was no official FW API
description yet, so a placeholder name was used (GEO_TX_POWER_LIMIT).
But then the command became actually called
PER_CHAIN_LIMIT_OFFSET_CMD. Rename the command (and change related
comments) to PER_CHAIN_LIMIT_OFFSET_CMD to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20211024181719.672fa727ef75.I6572df5d1e3441a0214993a59985da9a9431f3e5@changeid
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
New API for temperature measurement (DTS_MEASUREMENT_TRIGGER)
involves getting an immediate response from FW, and not waiting
for a notification like in previous APIs. Support new API while
keeping backwards compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Gil Adam <gil.adam@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20200930161256.b4893554d8e7.Ia4d7f389d4ac3256fcfe3ce6144e924dd6dbf6eb@changeid
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
TX power limits as defined in the OTP assume the worst case scenario
in terms of the platform's atenna gain, but most platforms are below
that value so they can use more TX power without passing the regulatory
limit. If the platform indicates in the BIOS that it indeed has lower
gain, and the geographic location allows it, higher TX power can be
used. The driver reads the PPAG (Per-Platform Antenna Gain) data from
BIOS (if it exists), validates it and sends the appropriate command to
the FW. This flow happens once at FW init, in case of suspend/resume
there is no need to read again from BIOS as we save those values during
init, so just send the PPAG command again to FW.
Signed-off-by: Gil Adam <gil.adam@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Apart from DVM, all firmware uses the same base API, and there's
code outside iwlmvm that needs to interact with it. Reflect this
in the source better and reorganize the firmware API to a new
fw/api/ directory.
While at it, split the already pretty large fw-api.h file into a
number of smaller files, going from almost 3k lines in there to
a maximum number of lines less than 1k.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
