[OpenWrt-Devel] New ath10k-ct firmware and driver available

[Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant]

> On 13 Jun 2019, at 16:54, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Here are recent release notes:
> 
> wave-1:
> 
>  *  May 9, 2019:  Tweak rate-ctrl:  Ramp PER up faster, down slower.  This helps throughput
>                   in rate-vs-range test, especially with nss1.
> 
>  *  May 20, 2019:  Disable adaptive-CCA.  I am not sure it helps, and it may make it slower
>                    to detect noise that should tell the system to stop transmitting.  If someone
>                    has means to test this properly, I'd be happy to work with them.
> 
> wave-2:
> 
>  *  May 15, 2019  Fix problem where rate-ctrl sometimes used rix of 0x0.
> 
>  *  May 15, 2019  Allow raw-tx of encrypted frame.  Requires a patch to the driver to use
>                   raw mode when skb has WEP flag enabled AND skb is flagged to not be
>                   encrypted.  Lightly tested.
> 
>  *  May 16, 2019  Fix tx-hang that happened when rate-ctrl chose an OFDM rate for 20Mhz
>                   and sent that as AMPDU.  To fix, limit to (V)HT rates if peer is (V)HT.
>                   It seems that MCS0 (V)HT20 should have as good of a chance of being
>                   detected as CCK or OFDM.
> 
>  *  June 6, 2019  Disable TX-BFEE, TX-BFER for IBSS connections.  I suspect this is part of the tx-hang
>                   issue seen with IBSS between two 9984 radios.
> 
>  *  June 12, 2019  Fix rx-rate reporting in 'fw_stats' logic.  This was at least partly due to regressions
>                    I had added earlier when working on some multi-vdev enhancements.
> 
>  *  June 12, 2019  Fix case where extd peer-stats were not always populated.  The stats gathering
>                    code did not handle error conditions well.
> 
> 
> Driver changes include:
> * Fixing mfp/pmf for management frames (in htt-mgt mode)
> * Sven's txpower related fixes
> * raw tx of encrypted frames works (on wave 2, at least)

Done.

Cheers,

Kevin D-B

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