iwlwifi is the driver of all Intel wifi devices since 2008.
Since then, the hardware has changed a lot, but the firmware
API has changed even more. The need to keep one driver that
supports all those different APIs led us to introduce a new
architecture circa 2012 which allowed us to keep the same
interface to the hardware (DMAs, Tx queues, etc...) with a
new layer to implement the mid-layer between mac80211 and
the firmware. The first component is called the 'transport'
and the latter is called 'operation_mode' a.k.a op_mode.
In 2013 we took advantage of the new architecture to
introduce iwlmvm which allowed us to implement the, then,
new firmware API. This op_mode supports 7260 and up, those
devices supports support at least VHT.
Since then, wifi evolved and so did the firmware. It became
much bigger and took a lot of functionality from the driver.
It became increasingly hard to keep the same op_mode for the
newest devices and we experienced frequent regressions on
older devices. In order to avoid those regressions and keep
the code maintainable, we decided it was about time to start
a new op_mode.
iwlmld is a new op_mode that supports BE200 or newer if the
firmware being used is 97.ucode or newer. If the user has
an older devices or BE200 with .96.ucode, iwlmvm will be
loaded. Of course, this op_mode selection is seamless.
All the features supported in iwlmvm are supported in
iwlmld besides a few seldom used use cases: injection and
Hotspot 2.0. Those are under work.
A few points about the implementation:
* iwlmld doesn't have any mutexes, it relies on the
wiphy_lock
* iwlmld is more "resource oriented": stations, links and
interfaces are allocated and freed only after all the
relevant flows are completed.
* Firmware notifications' sizes are validated in a more
structured way.
We would love to see this new op_mode merged in 6.15. The
firmware for this new driver (.97.ucode) is not yet publicly
available but it'll be sent very soon.
People eager to get an early version of this firmware can
contact Emmanuel at:
emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com
I've listed the people who directly contributed
code, but many others from various teams have
contributed in other ways.
Co-developed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Gabay <daniel.gabay@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gabay <daniel.gabay@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Anjaneyulu <pagadala.yesu.anjaneyulu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anjaneyulu <pagadala.yesu.anjaneyulu@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Yedidya Benshimol <yedidya.ben.shimol@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yedidya Benshimol <yedidya.ben.shimol@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20250216094321.537988-1-miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com/
[fix Kconfig, fix api/phy.h includes, SPDX tag and coding
style issues, duplicated includes per 0-day robot]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
We're adding a new IWLMLD opmode for just BZ and later
devices. If that's enabled but IWLMVM isn't, the build
fails because 22000 family configs aren't built but BZ
and later refer to it. Rather than trying to make some
new file to build it in all cases, just copy the small
struct.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250205145347.1d6186c23bee.I3c61a6c9e0db3ba6eea4dac63e1547945ad01703@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
iwl_bz_name[] has been unused since the resent
commit 6795a37161 ("wifi: iwlwifi: Print a specific device name.")
Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241223013202.340180-6-linux@treblig.org
All newer devices now require PNVM files, so don't list them
separately but simply generate the relevant MODULE_FIRMWARE()
declarations together. This simplifies the code and adds a
large number of missing PVNM declarations.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241231135726.302e521e08e9.I782513432d3dcbf801e8262522ded95302548e1c@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The 'gl' devices are in the bz family, but they're not,
integrated, so should have their own trans config struct.
Fix that, also necessitating the removal of LTR config,
and while at it remove 0x2727 and 0x272D IDs that were
only used for test chips.
Fixes: c30a2a6478 ("wifi: iwlwifi: add a new PCI device ID for BZ device")ticket=none
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240729201718.95aed0620080.Ib9129512c95aa57acc9876bdff8b99dd41e1562c@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
A few models require *.pnvm files while we don't declare them via
MODULE_FIRMWARE(). This resulted in the breakage of WiFi on the
system that relies on the information from modinfo (e.g. openSUSE
installer image).
This patch adds those missing MODULE_FIRMWARE() entries for *.pnvm
files.
type=feature
ticket=none
Link: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1207553
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240228163837.4320-1-tiwai@suse.de
[move to appropriate files]
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The IWL_DEVICE_GL_A macro is no longer used, and couldn't
be, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240129211905.8929a06c3a55.I3c21305e4b7fa3aba938bc860269e848fe262e88@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Add support for the new 802.11be device with limites capabilities:
- 320 MHz isn't supported
- MCSs 12 and 13 are not supported
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Sisodiya <mukesh.sisodiya@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240123200528.8529bd2acedf.I25dccb7bbeb21b8df2123fad51dde7fcf137a508@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
We shouldn't advertise arbitrary checksum flags since we had
to remove support for it due to broken hardware.
Fixes: ec18e7d4d2 ("wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: use old checksum for Bz A-step")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017115047.e37327f1a129.Iaee86b00db4db791cd90adaf15384b8c87d2ad49@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
EHT devices can support 512 MPDUs in an A-MPDU, each of
which might be an A-MSDU and thus further contain multiple
MSDUs, which need their own buffer each. Increase the number
of buffers to avoid running out in high-throughput scenarios.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230830112059.824e522927f1.Ie5b4a2d3953072b9d76054ae67e2e45900d6bba4@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
We have the trailing dash here, but that complicates all
the code. Simplify this by removing the dashes, adding
them to the *_MODULE_FIRMWARE macros, and adjusting the
code using this accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230621130443.72240ca13b83.I1f4ed547f0964719ed98a3ef928080462d594491@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
All the configurations for the various Bz/Gl devices
are basically identical, except for Gl A-step and the
firmware filename prefixes.
Add some infrastructure to auto-generate the firmware
filename prefix based on the detected MAC step and
RF name/step, and remove all the unneeded configs.
This reduces the size of the iwlwifi module by ~9k:
517582 27111 560 545253 851e5 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko
526885 27083 560 554528 87620 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230621130443.1dc121ba338f.I07d651516eb82cbaded4724ef30558a50f2fa866@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Split the configuration list in 22000.c into four new files,
per new device family, so we don't have this huge unusable
file. Yes, this duplicates a few small things, but that's
still much better than what we have now.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230621130443.7543603b2ee7.Ia8dd54216d341ef1ddc0531f2c9aa30d30536a5d@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Miri Korenblit
Johannes Berg
Dr. David Alan Gilbert
Emmanuel Grumbach
Jakub Kicinski
Daniel Amosi
Takashi Iwai
Gregory Greenman
Mukesh Sisodiya