That's what I thought. Thanks for confirming, and thanks again for your time and help!
Have a good one, Zach On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Ben Greear <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/06/2016 11:48 AM, Zach Sherin wrote: >> >> Interesting. Could I ask if there's somewhere I should start digging? >> If it's not obvious I'm a driver/kernel newbie, but I'm happy to >> learn. Should I start by going through ath10k's documentation/code >> until I find the relevant bits? > > > Unfortunately, without firmware source, you have probably no chance > to do this. And, you also probably have about no chance of getting > firmware source. > > Thanks, > Ben > > >> >> Thanks, >> Zach >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I bet the ruckus mode shift stuff is in the ath10k hardware and is >>> configurable per TX descriptor. >>> >>> a >>> >>> On Jun 6, 2016 11:03 AM, "Ben Greear" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 06/06/2016 10:59 AM, Zach Sherin wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I was aiming to run this off a serial interface on the general board, >>>>> not on the ath10k NIC. I have a consumer QCA9880 PCI board in an >>>>> Archer C7 router. It would be awesome if I could steal a GPIO or >>>>> something from the atheros chip to output, but I was assuming I >>>>> couldn't. The main reason I was looking at the ath10k driver was to >>>>> get as close to when the packets are transmitted as possible, to leave >>>>> as little room for error in the switching as possible. >>>>> >>>>> However, it's possible that I'm hoping for too much there. I'd be >>>>> interested to hear your thoughts on it. If I can't pull it off, I'll >>>>> move to an approach outside ath10k. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The driver just sends pkts to the firmware, it is the firmware that >>>> knows when a pkt is to be transmitted, so I think you would have to have >>>> some >>>> hooks low in the firmware tx logic to do what you want. And you would >>>> need some >>>> hardware output from the NIC. >>>> >>>> I am guessing it would require quite a bit of changes to the firmware, >>>> possibly very tricky/hacky ones, and hardware output on your NIC. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Ben >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Ben Greear <[email protected]> >>>> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> ath10k mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k >> >> > > > -- > Ben Greear <[email protected]> > Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k
