This commit streamlines the interaction between the Wifi::Manager
and the wpa_supplicant's CTRL interface.
As user-facing changes it alters some default settings and introduces
new features:
* Every configured network now needs to explicitly have its
'auto_connect' (to be considered an option for joining) attribute
set to 'true' whereas this was previously the default value if the
attribute was not set at all.
* The 'log_level' attribute is added and configures the supplicant's
verbosity. Valid values correspond to levels used by the supplicant
and are as follows 'excessive', 'msgdump', 'debug', 'info', 'warning'
and 'error'. The default value is 'error' and configures the least
amount of verbosity.
* The 'bgscan' attribute may be used to configure the way the
supplicant performs background-scanning to steer or rather optimize
roaming decision within the same network. The default value is set
to 'simple:30:-70:600'. It can be disabled by specifying an empty
value, e.g. 'bgscan=""'.
* The 'verbose_state' attribute was removed alltogether and similar
functionality is now coverted by 'verbose' attribute.
Implementation-wise the internals changed significantly and are
outlined in the following paragraphs.
Formerly the interaction between the manager and the supplicant
was handled in an apparent way where the internal state of each
interaction was in plain sight. This made the flow cumbersome to
follow and therefor each interaction is now confined to its own
'Action' object that encapsulates the ping-pong of commands and
responses between the manager and the supplicant. All actions are
processed in an sequential way and thus there is no longer any
need to defer pending actions depending on the interal state of
the current interaction. Configuration changes as well as events
issued by the supplicant where new actions can be created are
handled in this fashion. Of note are both signal-handlers,
'_handle_cmds' and '_handle_events' respectively.
The state report, which provides the information about the current
state of connectivity to a given wireless network, was dealt with
in the same vein and its handling was spread across the manager
implementation. Again, to make it easier to follow, the generation
of the state report is now purely driven by the 'Join_state' object.
This object encapsulates the state of connectivity and is normally
updated by events issued from the supplicant (see '_handle_events').
It is also incorporated when handling command responses (see
'_handle_cmds').
Handling of timed-actions, like scan and signal quality
update requests, was done by setting a timeout at the Timer session
directly and thus only one timed-action could be pending at any time.
This excluded dealing with timed-actions like connected-scanning
and signal quality polling concurrently. This was changed and now
a One_shot_timeout is used to programm each concurrent timed-action.
For implementing the communication channel for the CTRL interface the
manager and supplicant use a shared memory buffer, the Msg_buffer.
Since the CTRL interface for Genode was implemented using C, some
shenanigans were performed to access the memory buffer. Now the
CTRL interface implementation uses C++ and only exports the functions
required by the supplicant as C. This simplifies the usage of the
Msg_buffer and allows for removing the global functions needed for
synchronizing the Msg_buffer access as those are now part of the
object itself via the 'Notify_interface'.
Fixes#5341.
This commit adds the firmware image for the AX200 device as found
in the Tuxedo Pulse 15 Gen1, the 9560 as found in the Starlite and
the for devices found in the T430/T530.
Fixes#5282.
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM is a 'def_bool y' and gets re-enabled by
'make olddefconfig'. The PPRO version contains text relocations which we cannot
have in binaries (e.g., 'lea 45f(%ebx ...).').
issue #5104
USB devio splits large transaction into 16 KiB buffers in scatter-gather
lists. Unfortunately, this mechanism seems unreliable most certainly because
of issue #4809 "DDE Linux struct page object aliasing".
Issue #5036
Remove 'usb_hid', 'usb_net', 'usb_modem' from dde_linux port. These
versions have been updated to Linux 6.1.20 which uses the 'linux.port'
file.
issue #4958
NCM tries to batch TX packets using timeouts (500us) and does not send packets
before 3 packets are in the submit queue. Timeouts take milliseconds on
dde_linux which leads to delayed ACKs and poor performance for the RX case.
Therefore, we send small packets (<100 Bytes) immediately without batching (it
might be an ACK or last packet of a larger transfer).
issue #4958
The PinePhone Modems' CDC Ethernet Interface does not respond if RX/TX queue size
is greater 12 (experimentally determined), the default would be 60, meaning 60
RX Bulk URBs are sent at once to the device.
issue #4958
The supplicant is updated to the current release and is now downloaded
as archive rather than pulled from git. For the time being 'libnl' is
still kept at 3.2.25 as the current 3.7.0 release relies on more Linux
infrastructure that our integration does not provide.
Issue #4861.
This commit changes the firmware handling from requesting each
firmware file as a ROM module that is checked against a list of
known images (including their size) to requesting each file via
the local VFS of the 'wifi_drv'. This allows for using the original
probing mechanism that tries to select a matching firmware version.
The 'repos/dde_linux/src/drivers/wifi/README' file contains more
detailed information on how to configure the driver.
Issue #4861.
This commit updates the used firmware images for the iwlwifi device
to latest available ones (supported by the current 6.1.x driver).
It also removes old firmware images that by now are not used anymore.
Fixes#4807.
Recent devices are configured with 4096 RX pages that lead to an
increased memory usage. For the moment lower the amount to 2048
and treat in potientially lower throughput for more conservative
memory consumption.
Fixes#4801.
Linux kernel static functions usb_string_sub() and usb_get_langid() were
made accessible to implement robust string rerieval.
Fixes#4756Fixes#4757Fixes#4772
Workers are only summoned by the manager or when there are no workers on
a work queue. In case a work in front of a work queue depends on a work
behind it, a deadlock may occur. To solve this Linux spawns a rescue
worker using timers. Timing of Linux based drivers is currently reworked
and not reliable. Therefore, we increase the number of workers that are
spawned from 1 to 3 per work queue in order to resolve possible
deadlocks.
Fixes#4762
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.
Lack of MSI-X support in DDE Linux causes a timeout when the Intel AX211
tries to call back into the driver while loading the PNVM file while
interrupts are still disabled.
With the patch picked up from QubesOS the card works on an X1 Nano G2:
5fcfe0f19e
Issue #4663
Move 'linux-firmware' portion from 'dde_linux' into its own port,
while it is used by the upcoming new WLAN driver keep it in place
for the legacy one.
Issue #4455.
This commit contains a backport of commit [1] that deals with updating
the event ring dequeue pointer more often to prevent unnecessary
'Event Ring Full' errors.
[1] 'usb: host: xhci: update event ring dequeue pointer on purpose'
(dc0ffbea5729a3abafa577ebfce87f18b79e294b)
Fixes#4296.
Unfortunately, our current implementation of 'wmb()' doesn't seem to do what we
want it to do. On base-hw + imx6q_sabrelite, the write of bdp->cbd_sc seems to
get re-ordered after the write to txq->bd.reg_desc_active in the transmission
path of the contrib code. Due to this, the transmission of the packet is only
triggered the next time a packet is sent. However, we only quick-fix it by
enforcing the execution of the write with a volatile global read as we will
soon update the FEC NIC port with a new DDE approach anyway.
Fixes#4010
