The bulk of the driver code now lives in the 'dde_linux' repository,
which is available on all platforms, from where it can be referenced by
other repositories.
The 'wifi_drv' binary was delegated to a generic harness that includes
all configuration and management functionality shared by all wireless
device driver components, e.g., the wpa_supplicant. The code of the
device driver emulation environment is located in 'src/lib/wifi'. It
is referenced by the platform-specific driver library that resides in
the corresponding platform repository. The runtime configuration needs
to point the driver to proper driver library.
The platform-specific library is in charge of orchestrating the contrib
source utilized by the driver as well as providing the 'source.list'
and 'dep.list' files. It must include the generic library snippet
'repos/dde_linux/lib/wifi.inc' that deals with managing the emulation
environment code.
The 'repos/dde_linux/src/drivers/wifi/README' file contains more
detailed information on how to deploy the driver.
Issue #4861.
The wifi VFS plugin is solely there to provide a hook for calling
'Lx_kit::initialize()' prior to the static ctors. As the corresponding
symbol can be resolved at run-time there is no need to add the
library as a build-time dependency.
Issue #4813
The device-tree binary is normally required on ARM-based platforms
where as on x86 it is omitted. The platform-specific DTB helper
provides a generic interface for accssing the DTB and needs to be
implemented on each platform.
Issue #4813
This commit introduces support for building the WLAN driver for ARM
platforms. It makes the WPA supplicant and its support libraries
available for all platforms. It also seperates the PCI parts to
accommodate platforms where other bus protocols are used.
Issue #4813
The driver was only tested with an "Atheros AR9462 Rev:2" [168c:0034]
device using the 'wifi.run' run script.
Note: for it to work MSI may not be used as otherwise interrupts do not
work. Using an IOMMU leads to the following fault:
[ 0] IOMMU:0xffffffff817eb0b0 FRR:0 FR:0x22 BDF:4:0:0 FI:0xb0000000000000 (0)
Issue #4813
Implement udelay for all architectures within common lx_emul code,
remove driver-specific version.
Always do busy looping in udelay and use cpu_relax()
like the original Linux code. Thereby, we profit from architecture specific
instructions (cpu cool down), and jiffies are updated if irqs are on.
Ref genodelabs/genode#4778
Due to lacking hardware access the driver was test with one RTL8188EE
based device, namely [10ec:8179] (rev 01), only. As the access to the
PCI config space is restricted the driver loads the non power-saving
FW and the driver port is therefor only tested with that. The
accesses are documented should we choose to support them one way or
another later on.
The 'wifi.run' run script as well as Sculpt served as testing ground
where the driver worked fine so far.
Fixes#4714.
* Remove wrapper for legacy x86 platform API
* Move PCI configuration space quirks to corresponding driver
(pc_usb_host_drv, pc_wifi_drv, pc_intel_fb_drv)
* Adapt driver test run-scripts to changed configuration
Ref genodelabs/genode#4578
* Move common SMP and NO_HZ_IDLE variables and functions into
generic lx_emul shadow implementations, and integrate them
into the common lx_emul import rules
* Enable SMP and NO_HZ_IDLE within virt_linux kernel configuration
* Adapt pc drivers and wireguard accordingly
* Use original Linux softirq implementation in wireguard
* Remove erroneous softirq shadow implementation
Ref genodelabs/genode#4540
Ref genodelabs/genode#4562
Enables symetric-multi-processor support in the Linux kernel configuration
used as base for the driver ports for PC. This is done to be compliant with
common usage of x86 drivers today.
Moreover, this commit uses the original kernel source for softirq/tasklet
implementation to get rid of the insufficient shadow implementation
in the lx_emul sources.
Ref genodelabs/genode#4562
Use common implementation used by wifi and (not merged) audio driver.
Avoid usage of lib/delay.c since lpj and loop_for_jiffies are not calibrated
for the ported drivers as done on native Linux during boot and leads to wrong
delays for usb and intel_fb.
Issue #4540
Both the Wifi driver and the WireGuard port used local implementations for
their source of randomness. Wifi used a Xoroshiro128+ PRNG for rapid generation
of random values but initialized this PRNG always with the same static seed
value. WireGuard, in contrast, requested each random byte directly from the
jitterentropy lib, which is considered to be very time intensive.
This commit removes the local variants of random.cc and introduces a new
centralized lx_emul/random.cc . The new variant combines the former approaches,
so, that jitterentropy is accessed only in order to generate a random seed for
a Xoroshiro128+ PRNG. Front-end requests for random values are then fulfilled
efficiently via the PRNG.
:Warning:
The output of the Xoroshiro128+ PRNG that is used in the new implementation of
the lx_emul randomness functions has known statistical problems (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoroshiro128%2B#Statistical_Quality).
Furthermore, the integration of Xoroshir128+ with the lx_emul code was not
reviewed/audited for its security-related properties, so far, and has the
known deficiency of seeding the PRNG only once during initialization. Thus,
we strongly advise against the use of the lx_emul randomness functions for
security-critical purposes.
Ref #4397
This commit de-duplicates the redundant dummy implementations and
to some degree also the 'lx_emul.c' implementations while also
decluttering the various 'dep.list' files.
The code is moved into 'src/lib/pc/lx_emul' where it becomes part
of the 'pc_lx_emul' library.
Fixes#4500.
Instead of each driver providing its own header file use a central
header as the initcall order header should cover _all_ provided
initcalls resulting from the used 'pc_linux' kernel config.
Note that the 'pc_linux' configuration was extended with the
'USB_USBNET' option because the module's initcall is needed for the
Genode C API for USB glue-code and the 'PACKET' option needed by
the wireless lan driver.
The lack of theses options was not noticed as each driver used its
own initcall header so far that stemmed from the initial porting
effort.
Issue #4500.
The driver falls in line with the previous 'legacy_wifi_drv' component
where the ported wireless LAN stack and device driver is encapsulated
in a library. This library in return is used by the 'Libc::Component'
providing the necessary environment for the 'wpa_supplicant'.
In constrast to the old driver a 'wifi' VFS plugin is in charge of
initalizing the 'Lx_kit::Env' prior to executing any static
constructors.
Fixes#4455.
.SHELLFLAGS is extended by option pipefail to make pipes fail if any pipe
element fails. As .SHELLFLAGS is exported into sub-make instances it
must be unexported before calling third-party build systems recursively.
* Drivers have to use lx_kit/memory_dma.cc
* Protocol-stacks use lx_kit/memory_non_dma.cc
* Moreover the device-dependent lx_emul parts get removed
from the common lx_emul import rules
Fix#4443
This commit contains:
* Minimal Linux kernel target: pc_linux
* Library to generate a Linux build directory, config, generated headers
* API depot package
The actual work was provided by Josef Soentgen.
Ref genodelabs/genode#4416
