> We have initial support for AR5210s (still needs work), AR5211 and
> AR5212. To add support for other hardware we'll need register dumps of
> the HAL. Fortunately we have a way to do this. It's still hard to
> figure out what we're supposed to do but at least we can get the some
> idea of what to do this way.
>
> Below are instructions, you can find later instructions on the URL:
>
>
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/madwifi-regdumps/README
>
> MadWifi HAL Register dumping
> ----------------------------
>
> You can use these instructions to get register dumps of HAL register
> reads and writes. For this we build the alq and mmio trap modules and
> make some use of them.
>
> This is based on patches and information from:
>
>
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1380
>
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MmioTrace
>
> -- Steps to take ---
>
> 0. Get MadWifi svn trunk, patches, pach up and build:
>
> svn export
http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/trunk trunk
> wget
>
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/madwifi-regdumps/alq.diff
> wget
>
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/madwifi-regdumps/mmio.diff
> wget
>
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/madwifi-regdumps/var.diff
>
> cd trunk/
> patch -p1 < ../alq.patch
> patch -p1 < ../mmio.patch
> patch -p1 < ../var.diff
>
> make ALQ=1 MMIOTRACE=1
>
> 1. Alter the ath_pci.ko module with this command and then install modules:
>
> mv ath/ath_pci.ko ath/ath_pci.ko.old
> objcopy --redefine-sym __ioremap=__ioremap_trace --redefine-sym \
> iounmap=iounmap_trace --redefine-sym \
> ioremap_nocache=ioremap_nocache_trace \
> ath/ath_pci.ko.old ath/ath_pci.ko
>
> sudo make install ALQ=1 MMIOTRACE=1
>
> 2. Load mmio, alq, ath_hal
>
> sudo modprobe mmio
> sudo modprobe alq
> sudo modprobe ath_hal
>
> 3. Proc stuff:
>
> sudo su -
> echo 2 > /proc/sys/dev/ath/hal/debug
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/ath/hal/alq
>
> 4. Load ath_pci
>
> modprobe ath_pci
>
> 5. Check reg dump file exists
>
> ls -l /tmp/ath_hal.log
>
> As you do things with the driver it should increase in size:
>
> root@pogo:~# wc -l /tmp/ath_hal.log
> 14236 /tmp/ath_hal.log
>
> root@pogo:~# iwconfig wlan3
> wlan3 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname:""
> Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
> Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
> Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> root@pogo:~# wc -l /tmp/ath_hal.log
> 14425 /tmp/ath_hal.log
>
> 6. Parse the regdump stuff, it looks nasty:
>
> perl -pe 's,\x00,,g' < /tmp/ath_hal.log > /tmp/ath_hal.log.txt
>
> In the end you should see lines like this:
>
> R:0x04004 = 0x00010000 - unknown
> W:0x04004 = 0x00000000 - unknown
> R:0x04010 = 0x00010014 - unknown
> R:0x04004 = 0x00000000 - unknown
> W:0x04004 = 0x00000000 - unknown
> ...
>
> -- Sending dumps --
>
> Please feel free to post dumps of hardware to
ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org
>
> In doing so you should also provide ath_info dump:
>
> cd trunk/tools
> make
> lspci -v
> # look for the line like:
> # Memory at b8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> # for your card, put 0x in front of it as and fun ath_info with it:
> sudo ./ath_info 0xb8000000
>
> You should get something like:
>
> ---
>
> -==Device Information==-
> MAC Version: 5212 (0x50)
> MAC Revision: 5213A(0x59)
> PHY Revision: 5112a(0x36)
> -==EEPROM Information==-
> EEPROM Version: 5.2
> EEPROM Size: 16K
> Regulatory Domain: 0x10
> -==== Capabilities ====-
>
> | 802.11a Support: yes |
> | 802.11b Support: yes |
> | 802.11g Support: yes |
> | RFKill Support: no |
> | 32KHz Crystal: yes |
>
> ========================
> GPIO registers: CR 00000000 DO 00000000 DI 00000000
>
> ---
>
> Other tips:
>
> If you are sending dumps please add stuff to the regdump which
> indicates what you did to trigger a section of reg reads/writes.
>
> The dumps can be pretty big so please compress the file with bzip2. If
> you can host the file somewhere and just send us the URL that may
> help.
>
> Luis
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