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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Just a wild guess, driver may include a small fudge factor to account
> for time spent in qcu.  At one point I compared all of the initvals
> to those from the HAL; we're at least bug-compatible with it if there
> are errors here.

But, the SIFS and SLOT_TIME values should already account for those times?

>From the spec (Section 9.2.10 DCF timing relations):
aSIFSTime is:	aRxRFDelay + aRxPLCPDelay + aMACProcessingDelay +
aRxTxTurnaroundTime.
aSlotTime is:	aCCATime + aRxTxTurnaroundTime + aAirPropagationTime +
aMACProcessingDelay.

>
>> By the way, I may be completely wrong about some of these things, I'm
>> just going off the understanding I have regarding the register values.
>
> Well mostly no one has looked at them, so you may well have found
> some problems.
>
> FWIW if you use coverage classes (not default), we appear to use the
> right values there.

I'm going to plead ignorance here and say that I'm not sure what you
mean by coverage classes...

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