Hi,
On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 12:06 PM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
>
> On the Tx side, when sending eg. an association request or an
> association response, I must expect and wait for an ack. This is
> what I am struggling to do. How can I know that a frame which I just
> transmitted has been acked? Bonus points, how can I do that in such a
> way that it will work with other devices? (hints below)
>
> > AACK will send a back if a frame with ack request bit was received.
> >
> > > say in a commit) I have seen no further updates about it so I guess
> > > it's still not available. I don't see any other way to know if a
> > > frame's ack has been received or not reliably.
> >
> > You implemented it for the at86rf230 driver (the spi one which is what
> > also atusb uses). You implemented the
> >
> > ctx->trac = IEEE802154_NO_ACK;
> >
> > which signals the upper layer that if the ack request bit is set, that
> > there was no ack.
> >
> > But yea, there is a missing feature for atusb yet which requires
> > firmware changes as well.
>
> :'(
There is a sequence handling in tx done on atusb firmware and I think
it should be pretty easy to add a byte for trac status.
diff --git a/atusb/fw/mac.c b/atusb/fw/mac.c
index 835002c..156bd95 100644
--- a/atusb/fw/mac.c
+++ b/atusb/fw/mac.c
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static void receive_frame(void)
static bool handle_irq(void)
{
- uint8_t irq;
+ uint8_t irq, data[2];
irq = reg_read(REG_IRQ_STATUS);
if (!(irq & IRQ_TRX_END))
@@ -124,7 +124,15 @@ static bool handle_irq(void)
if (txing) {
if (eps[1].state == EP_IDLE) {
- usb_send(&eps[1], &this_seq, 1, tx_ack_done, NULL);
+ data[0] = tx_ack_done;
+
+ spi_begin();
+ spi_io(REG_TRX_STATE);
+
+ data[1] = spi_recv();
+ spi_end();
+
+ usb_send(&eps[1], &this_seq, sizeof(data), data, NULL);
} else {
queued_tx_ack = 1;
queued_seq = this_seq;
Did not test it, but maybe something in this direction?
cc Werner Almesberger here, he did most of the atusb hardware and firmware.
- Alex
