Re: Help me grok the ath(4) device attach code

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 04:56:04 UTC
On Tue, 30 May 2023 at 20:56, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> wrote:

> > On May 30, 2023, at 8:02 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > Err, if it's coming up w/ that MAC then it's not finding and attaching
> right to the OTP/EEPROM calibration information. That's the big red flag
> that it in general won't work correctly.
> >
> > Can you provide the rest of the ath_hal messages? I'd like to see what
> it's saying during boot around it checking the EEPROM/OTP contents. It's
> possible there's some work around required for this NIC.
>
> He speaks! Thanks for taking the time. I just realized that ath_hal_printf
> doesn’t prepend “ath%d” so I’ve been missing those messages when grep-ing.
> Here’s the whole snippet:
>
> ath0: <Atheros AR946x/AR948x> mem 0xf7a00000-0xf7a7ffff at device 0.0 on
> pci4
> ar9300_flash_map: unimplemented for now
> Restoring Cal data from DRAM
> Restoring Cal data from EEPROM
> Restoring Cal data from Flash
> Restoring Cal data from Flash
> Restoring Cal data from OTP
> ar9300_eeprom_restore_internal[4338] No vaid CAL, calling default template
> ar9300_hw_attach: ar9300_eeprom_attach returned 0
>

Yeah, this bit right here is the problem. It's not finding a valid
calibration.

 I wonder what ath9k is doing here? Is there some weird pci based
workaround/flag for the given NIC PCI id?


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