Wilink 8 R8.5

Hi,

I see it's out now. Great!

• What is the status for integration with current (or new) kernel releases from the AM335x team?
  I know 1/2 of this question belongs in the Sitara forum, but please help bridge the gap with them.
  
  
• In the WL18xx release-notes, many features related to power-save, filtering in suspend are listed as "F" failed.
  Please help elaborate here. When can we see this fully implemented? (related to above item)
  
  
• Is there some more reading available on the mac80211 changes and other driver specifics / mainline plans?
  
  

Thanks

Hi,

1. The integration is ongoing – it is part of roadmap for next year. Not sure which kernel version you are referring to, but AFAIK 3.14 should be out in Q1.

2. F is not Failed, F is Functional-meaning it was not fully tested/certified.

3. Changes can be seen and tracked through the linux-wireless mailing list http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/MailingLists (though this is not trivial to understand – open source way)

Regards,
Gigi Joseph.

Hi

Regarding #3: not many changes are pushed upstream. How come? TI:s wl18xx repository diverges more and more from mainline. What's TI:s goal here?

Hi Gigi,

2. Sorry, I can see that now. Good to know.

Related to this as it's listed in the release-notes as functional, but I disagree, see below:

root@DUT:~# iw phy0 wowlan enable foobar

Usage:  iw [options] phy <phyname> wowlan enable [any] [disconnect] [magic-packet] [gtk-rekey-failure] [eap-identity-request] [4way-handshake] [rfkill-release] [patterns <pa]

So let's enable standard wake-on-wlan by magic-packet

root@DUT:~# iw phy0 wowlan enable magic-packet

command failed: Invalid argument (-22)

 

Let me know

Thanks

Hi David,

Not sure I understood you...
Which feature in the release notes are you talking about?

Regards,
Gigi Joseph.

Hi,

STA -> Filtering -> Pre-defined Received packet filters in suspend mode 

Which I assume is for Wake on wlan (using standard magic package) which doesn't seems to be functional.

David

Hi,

That would be the WoWLAN pattern. Please see: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/WL18xx_Adding_WoWLAN
Example: iw phy0 wowlan enable patterns 00:44:44:44:44:44

Regards,
Gigi Joseph.

Yes, thanks, I've checked this wiki page but what I'm after is the standardised magic-package option.

Please help show an example how to enable it. The standard way would be by simply using the WIPHY_WOWLAN_MAGIC_PKT.

@NL80211_WOWLAN_TRIG_MAGIC_PKT: wake up on magic packet (6x 0xff, followed by 16 repetitions of MAC addr, anywhere in payload) (flag)

So with a 48-bit MAC address this gives us a total of 102 bytes which will not work if send using the "patterns" parameter referenced on the WL18xx_Adding_WoWLAN wiki where it reads.

Restrictions:
Only 7 patterns can be active at any time

• • Max size is 81 bytes

Let me know how to solve this.

Hi Gigi,

Any updates on this, see my explaination. Would be great if you can help provide a cmd-line example on how to enable it.

Thanks

Hi David,

I believe there is already a CSR ticket for this. Please check that for the latest status...

Regards,
Gigi Joseph.

Thanks Shahar, we've migrated to the new versions.
Are there any performance tests made with this new release that we could get (refering to the "For full testing results .." on the wiki release-page).

Gigi, will monitor the CSR regarding wowlan, thanks.