On 6 June 2016 at 21:22, Zach Sherin <[email protected]> wrote: > That's what I thought. Thanks for confirming, and thanks again for > your time and help! > BTW, check google: ath10k smart antenna Seems 10.2 support this.
BR Janusz > 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 _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k
