Dear Zefir,

Thanks a lot for these precisions, This makes thing more clear.

There is still one thing unclear to me. If we do not consider working
on the DFS channels and that we only want to operate on channels 36,
40, 44 and 48 in EU. Do we still need to enable DFS flags in ath9k to
comply with EN 300 328 v1.8.1. I mean, is the same pulse detector
algorithm used for DFS and for the adaptivity tests on channels 36 to
48?

Many thanks in advance for your answer.

Best regards

Adrien


On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Zefir Kurtisi
<zefir.kurt...@neratec.com> wrote:
> On 10/27/2014 03:18 PM, Adrien Decostre wrote:
>> Hello Zefir,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your answer. This helps me a lot.
>> If I correctly understand, the ability of ath9k to detect all pulses
>> may also depend of the platform performances. So on an embedded
>> platform with limited performances, we may observe more pulses losses
>> than on a more powerful platform. Is this a right statement?
>>
> No, there is no bottleneck in the platform performance. Presumed radar pulses 
> are
> reported as RX_ERROR descriptors and even lower end embedded systems are able 
> to
> handle the load. What makes the difference with the minimum pulse width is the
> chip DFS engine's ability to isolate and identify very short spikes as 
> potential
> radar pulses.
>
> This goes very deeply into material I had available under NDA while 
> implementing
> the DFS support for ath9k. If you intend to work on that topic, I encourage 
> you to
> contact the folks at QCA and join their 'NDA for Developers' program. The 
> document
> you want to read is 'Baseband DFS 2 (Radar) Micro-Architecture'.
>
>> What about the CONFIG_ATH9K_DFS_CERTIFIED build options? Do we need it
>> to enable the detection of 0.5usec. pulses?
>>
> Yes, this driver specific flag (also available for 10k) you need to set to 
> get the
> DFS detector built (not related to pulse width). It essentially shifts the
> responsibility of the product working in restricted bands to you / the 
> manufacturer.
>
>
>> Thanks in advance for your answer.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Adrien
>>
>
> Good Luck,
> Zefir
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