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
This patch takes advantage of block transfer interrupts on Intel XHCI
controllers which is used during isochronous transfers. Because of a bug
in hardware (see usb_host_isoc_bei.patch header), this feature has been
disabled for Intel leading to up to 8000 interrupts/s for isochronous
transfer causing severe CPU consumption on Genode. With this commit we
lower host driver consumption to normal levels.
issue #4149
This commit backports the Linux upstream commit (d4a6106) [*]
that introduces a check to prevent the sglist from being used
unconditionally.
[*] 'xhci: fix bounce buffer usage for non-sg list case'
Fixes#4116.
Thise driver supports USB LTE modems for Huawais' ME906s through MBIM
and provides a traditional Nic session. The "control" interface is a
Terminal session, which can be used via libmbim/mbimcli.
issue #3822
Move button-event reporting behind pointer-position update.
This is just a quickfix to restore correct pointer emulation with
dde_linux usb_drv. It does not change usb_hid_drv because the approach
is a questionable workaround of the current input event handling, which
reports events promptly on occurrence of inputs events and ignores
synchronization events completely. The original contrib code reported
the button press before absolute x and y positioning followed by a sync
event.
Issue #3019
