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Date:      Tue, 03 Oct 2017 00:59:06 +0300
From:      "Andriy Voskoboinyk" <s3erios@gmail.com>
To:        "Farhan Khan" <khanzf@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Register Address Size Mismatch
Message-ID:  <op.y7h4osswiew4ia@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <9b0976c3-ad31-0558-a3f4-0177b91fb7e6@gmail.com>
References:  <293228d3-c777-d928-8476-ee23ba487c72@gmail.com> <op.y7fd5mltiew4ia@thinkpad-x220> <3f760297-d8dd-a2e0-9fda-e09bff06b11c@gmail.com> <op.y7f2bgwfiew4ia@thinkpad-x220> <9b0976c3-ad31-0558-a3f4-0177b91fb7e6@gmail.com>

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I have not seen any (except generic chipset description) documents in  
public
(only references to them in the driver); most of information was retrieved
by reading vendor driver code / experimenting with devices.

> Thank you! That is in the Linux driver here:
> http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/linux-master/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/phy.c#_rtl8188e_config_rf_reg
>
> As a matter of completion, is this information publicly available such
> as in a chipset document or something you came across from reading the
> driver code? I am currently essentially doing replay without fully
> understanding how the device works.
>
> On 10/01/2017 03:12 PM, Andriy Voskoboinyk wrote:
>> Do you mean 0xFFE address? In vendor driver such 'addresses' are used
>> for delay between writes (50 ms for RTL8812A).
>>
>>> The issue is in the assignment, not the write/read part. rtwn_rf_prog
>>> wants a * uint8_t list, whereas the register size from Linux is a
>>> uint32_t (but can cleanly fit into a uint16_t and might just be the
>>> default register size on Linux). How do I reconcile those two? I hope I
>>> was clearer there.
>>>
>>> The first column are the Linux registers in question:
>>> http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/linux-master/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/table.c#316
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for your continued assistance.
>>>
>>> On 10/01/2017 06:30 AM, Andriy Voskoboinyk wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> RF registers are using indirect addressing; you should use
>>>> rtwn_rf_write() / rtwn_rf_read() instead.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I am working on porting over a Linux Realtek driver to FreeBSD. I ran
>>>>> into a register-size issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> FreeBSD's PCI-write function is defined as follows:
>>>>> rtwn_pci_write_4(struct rtwn_softc *sc, uint16_t addr)
>>>>>
>>>>> Notice that the second parameter is of type uint16_t.
>>>>>
>>>>> During initialization, the rtwn driver uses the rtwn_rf_prog  
>>>>> structure
>>>>> to write a pre-defined list of data to a pre-defined list of  
>>>>> registers.
>>>>> The structure to hold both lists is defined here:
>>>>> http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/freebsd-head/sys/dev/rtwn/if_rtwnreg.h#150.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Notice how the second parameter 'reg' is a uint8_t.
>>>>>
>>>>> The rtwn_pci_write_4's addr is uint16_t, the rtwn_rf_prog's addr is a
>>>>> uint8_t. How would I reconcile this type mismatch? Additionally, the
>>>>> Linux version of this block of code has all register values as a
>>>>> uint32_t. It is not a matter of a cast, because some values  
>>>>> definitely
>>>>> use more than 1 byte (ie 0xFFE).
>>>>>
>>>>> Suggestions on how to reconcile and resolve this issue?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Farhan Khan
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