Message ID | 20220104072658.69756-1-marcan@marcan.st (mailing list archive) |
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Series | brcmfmac: Support Apple T2 and M1 platforms | expand |
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 9:27 AM Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Happy new year! This 35-patch series adds proper support for the > Broadcom FullMAC chips used on Apple T2 and M1 platforms: > > - BCM4355C1 > - BCM4364B2/B3 > - BCM4377B3 > - BCM4378B1 > - BCM4387C2 > > As usual for Apple, things are ever so slightly different on these > machines from every other Broadcom platform. In particular, besides > the normal device/firmware support changes, a large fraction of this > series deals with selecting and loading the correct firmware. These > platforms use multiple dimensions for firmware selection, and the values > for these dimensions are variously sourced from DT or OTP (see the > commit message for #9 for the gory details). > > This is what is included: > > # 01: DT bindings (M1 platforms) > > On M1 platforms, we use the device tree to provide properties for PCIe > devices like these cards. This patch re-uses the existing SDIO binding > and adds the compatibles for these PCIe chips, plus the properties we > need to correctly instantiate them: > > - brcm,board-type: Overrides the board-type which is used for firmware > selection on all platforms, which normally comes from the DMI device > name or the root node compatible. Apple have their own > mapping/identifier here ("island" name), so we prefix it with "apple," > and use it as the board-type override. > > - apple,antenna-sku: Specifies the specific antenna configuration in a > produt. This would normally be filled in by the bootloader from > device-specific configuration data. On ACPI platforms, this is > provided via ACPI instead. This is used to build the funky Apple > firmware filenames. Note: it seems the antenna doesn't actually matter > for any of the above platforms (they are all aliases to the same files > and our firmware copier collapses down this dimension), but since > Apple do support having different firmware or NVRAM depending on > antenna SKU, we ough to support it in case it starts mattering on a > future platform. > > - brcm,cal-blob: A calibration blob for the Wi-Fi module, specific to a > given unit. On most platforms, this is stored in SROM on the module, > and does not need to be provided externally, but Apple instead stores > this in platform configuration for M1 machines and the driver needs to > upload it to the device after initializing the firmware. This has a > generic brcm name, since a priori this mechanism shouldn't be > Apple-specific, although chances are only Apple do it like this so far. > > # 02~09: Apple firmware selection (M1 platforms) > > These patches add support for choosing firmwares (binaries, CLM blobs, > and NVRAM configs alike) using all the dimensions that Apple uses. The > firmware files are renamed to conform to the existing brcmfmac > convention. See the commit message for #9 for the gory details as to how > these filenames are constructed. The data to make the firmware selection > comes from the above DT properties and from an OTP ROM on the chips on > M1 platforms. > > # 10~14: BCM4378 support (M1 T8103 platforms) > > These patches make changes required to support the BCM4378 chip present > in Apple M1 (T8103) platforms. This includes adding support for passing > in the MAC address via the DT (this is standard on DT platforms) since > the chip does not have a burned-in MAC; adding support for PCIe core > revs >64 (which moved around some registers); tweaking ring buffer > sizes; and fixing a bug. > > # 15~20: BCM4355/4364/4377 support (T2 platforms) > > These patches add support for the chips found across T2 Mac platforms. > This includes ACPI support for fetching properties instead of using DT, > providing a buffer of entropy to the devices (required for some of the > firmwares), and adding the required IDs. This also fixes the BCM4364 > firmware naming; it was added without consideration that there are two > incompatible chip revisions. To avoid this ambiguity in the future, all > the chips added by this series use firmware names ending in the revision > (apple/brcm style, that is letter+number), so that future revisions can > be added without creating confusion. > > # 21~27: BCM4387 support (M1 Pro/Max T600x platforms) > > These patches add support for the newer BCM4387 present in the recently > launched M1 Pro/Max platforms. This chip requires a few changes to D11 > reset behavior and TCM size calculation to work properly, and it uses > newer firmware which needs support for newer firmware interfaces > in the cfg80211 support. Backwards compatibility is maintained via > feature flags discovered at runtime from information provided by the > firmware. > > A note on #26: it seems this chip broke the old hack of passing the PMK > in hexdump form as a PSK, but it seems brcmfmac chips supported passing > it in binary all along. I'm not sure why it was done this way in the > Linux driver, but it seems OpenBSD always did it in binary and works > with older chips, so this should be reasonably well tested. Any further > insight as to why this was done this way would be appreciated. > > # 28~32: Fixes > > These are just random things I came across while developing this series. > #31 is required to avoid a compile warning in subsequent patches. None > of these are strictly required to support these chips/platforms. > > # 33-35: TxCap and calibration blobs > > These patches add support for uploading TxCap blobs, which are another > kind of firmware blob that Apple platforms use (T2 and M1), as well as > providing Wi-Fi calibration data from the device tree (M1). > > I'm not sure what the TxCap blobs do. Given the stray function > prototype at [5], it would seem the Broadcom folks in charge of Linux > drivers also know all about Apple's fancy OTP for firmware selection > and the existence of TxCap blobs, so it would be great if you could > share any insight here ;-) > > These patches are not required for the chips to function, but presumably > having proper per-device calibration data available matters, and I > assume the TxCap blobs aren't just for show either. > > # On firmware > > As you might expect, the firmware for these machines is not available > under a redistributable license; however, every owner of one of these > machines *is* implicitly licensed to posess the firmware, and the OS > packages containing it are available under well-known URLs on Apple's > CDN with no authentication. > > Our plan to support this is to propose a platform firmware mechanism, > where platforms can provide a firmware package in the EFI system > partition along with a manifest, and distros will extract it to > /lib/firmware on boot or otherwise make it available to the kernel. > > Then, on M1 platforms, our install script, which performs all the > bootloader installation steps required to run Linux on these machines in > the first place, will also take care of copying the firmware from the > base macOS image to the EFI partition. On T2 platforms, we'll provide an > analogous script that users can manually run prior to a normal EFI Linux > installation to just grab the firmware from /usr/share/firmware/wifi in > the running macOS. > > There is an example firmware manifest at [1] which details the files > copied by our firmware rename script [2], as of macOS 12.0.1. > > To test this series on a supported Mac today (T2 or M1), boot into macOS > and run: > > $ git clone https://github.com/AsahiLinux/asahi-installer > $ cd asahi-installer/src > $ python -m firmware.wifi /usr/share/firmware/wifi firmware.tar > > Then copy firmware.tar to Linux and extract it into /lib/firmware. I looked into the ~half of the series and basically common mistakes you have are (but not limited to): - missed checks for error from allocator calls - NIH devm_kasprintf() - quite possible reinveting a wheel of many functions we have already implemented in the kernel. Suggestion for the last one is to use `git grep ...`, which is very powerful instrument, and just always questioning yourself "I'm doing XYZ and my gut feeling is that XYZ is (so) generic I can't believe there is no implementation of it already exists in the kernel". This is how I come up with a lot of cleanups done in the past.
Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> writes: > Hi everyone, > > Happy new year! This 35-patch series adds proper support for the > Broadcom FullMAC chips used on Apple T2 and M1 platforms: > > - BCM4355C1 > - BCM4364B2/B3 > - BCM4377B3 > - BCM4378B1 > - BCM4387C2 35 patches is a lot to review. It would make things easier for reviewers if you can split this into smaller patchsets, 10-12 patches per set is what I usually recommend. More info in the wiki link below.
On 2022/01/10 19:14, Kalle Valo wrote: > Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> writes: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Happy new year! This 35-patch series adds proper support for the >> Broadcom FullMAC chips used on Apple T2 and M1 platforms: >> >> - BCM4355C1 >> - BCM4364B2/B3 >> - BCM4377B3 >> - BCM4378B1 >> - BCM4387C2 > > 35 patches is a lot to review. It would make things easier for reviewers > if you can split this into smaller patchsets, 10-12 patches per set is > what I usually recommend. More info in the wiki link below. The patches are already split into logical groupings, so I think there isn't much more to be gained by sending them separately. As I described in the cover letter: 01~09: Firmware selection stuff 10~14: Add support for BCM4378 15~20: Add BCM4355/4364/4377 on top 21~27: Add BCM4387 and its newer requirements 28~32: Misc fixes 33~35: TxCap & calibration support If you want to review the series piecemeal, feel free to stop at any of those boundaries; the series will still make sense and is useful at any of those stopping points. Note that the firmware selection stuff (in particular patches #4 and #6) will change quite a bit in v3 from the review feedback so far, so you might want to skip reviewing those in detail for v2.
Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> writes: > On 2022/01/10 19:14, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> writes: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> Happy new year! This 35-patch series adds proper support for the >>> Broadcom FullMAC chips used on Apple T2 and M1 platforms: >>> >>> - BCM4355C1 >>> - BCM4364B2/B3 >>> - BCM4377B3 >>> - BCM4378B1 >>> - BCM4387C2 >> >> 35 patches is a lot to review. It would make things easier for reviewers >> if you can split this into smaller patchsets, 10-12 patches per set is >> what I usually recommend. More info in the wiki link below. > > The patches are already split into logical groupings, so I think there > isn't much more to be gained by sending them separately. As I described > in the cover letter: > > 01~09: Firmware selection stuff > 10~14: Add support for BCM4378 > 15~20: Add BCM4355/4364/4377 on top > 21~27: Add BCM4387 and its newer requirements > 28~32: Misc fixes > 33~35: TxCap & calibration support > > If you want to review the series piecemeal, feel free to stop at any of > those boundaries; the series will still make sense and is useful at any > of those stopping points. Really, having smaller patchsets makes the patch flow so much smoother for everyone. If you want to submit huge patchsets then go ahead, but that will automatically drop the patches to the bottom of my queue.