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The iNet Wireless Daemon (iwd) project aims to provide a comprehensive Wi-Fi connectivity solution for Linux based devices. The core goal of the project is to optimize resource utilization: storage, runtime memory and link-time costs.
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Use the same machine type regardless of has_virt: q35 with accelerators list set to kvm:tcg, this will use KVM if available and fall back to TCG if not available so there's no point checking has_virt. We can't reliably know if KVM is usable anyway: even if the CPU has the virtualization extensions, the support might not be enabled in the QEMU build or there may be no kernel module or we may be calling a different qemu executable than the one supporting KVM. Set CPU type to "host" if KVM available and "max" otherwise because "host" is not supported without KVM. We actually want to emulate the host CPU as closely as possible so that host executables can run even if optimized for the specific CPU. "max" seems to be the new way (since Feb only) to request "host" cpu without KVM. It seems that the idea is for "max" to become same as "host" if KVM is enabled so at some point we will want to switch to using "max" in both cases. The "level=9" flag seems to have been an error, there's no CPU with cpuid max level of 9 and I can't see the purpose of setting the cpuid level other than the host cpu's level. -enable-kvm is redundant with accel=kvm:tcg in current qemu. Again I'm not able to test this patch on a cpu that would be affected by it but I hope this fixes some situations which are currently broken anyway. |
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Wireless daemon for Linux ************************* Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Compilation and installation ============================ In order to compile the source code you need following software packages: - GCC compiler - GNU C library - Embedded Linux library To configure run: ./configure --prefix=/usr Configure automatically searches for all required components and packages. To compile and install run: make && make install Embedded Linux library ====================== In order to compile the daemon and control utility the development version of Embedded Linux library is required to be present. The development repositories can be found here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/ell/ell.git https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/libs/ell/ell.git The build systems requires that the Embedded Linux library source code is available on the same top level directory as the Wireless daemon source code: . |--- ell | |--- ell | `--- unit `--- iwd |--- src `--- client It is not required to build or install Embedded Linux library. The build will happen when building the Wireless daemon and it will then be linked internally. Netlink monitoring ================== The included iwmon utility can be used to monitor the 802.11 subsystem generic netlink commands and events. It uses the nlmon kernel driver from Linux 3.10 and later. On startup network monitor interface named named 'nlmon' is created unless another interface name is given on the command line. If the monitor interface was created by the iwmon utility, it will be removed on program exit. Manually the monitor interface can be created using the following commands: ip link add name nlmon type nlmon ip link set dev nlmon allmulticast on ip link set dev nlmon up It is possible to create netlink traces in PCAP format using tcpdump and then read them via iwmon utility: tcpdump -i nlmon -w trace-file.pcap The resulting PCAP files will use Linux cooked packet format containing packets with ARPHRD_NETLINK type. They can be read using iwmon: iwmon -r trace-file.pcap At this time iwmon is not able to write PCAP files by itself. This might change in future versions. When also the authentication protocol traffic on port 0x888e (ETH_P_PAE) is needed, then a second capture is required: tcpdump -i any 'ether proto 0x888e' -w trace-pae.pcap It is possible to combine these two PCAP files using the mergecap utility and create a combined trace file: mergecap -F pcap -w trace.pcap trace-file.pcap trace-pae.pcap This will create a trace.pcap file that includes the complete picture of nl80211 netlink traffic and authentication messages. All packets are merged in chronological order based on timestamps. Unfortunately it is not possible to instruct tcpdump filtering to do this in a single capture. Post-processing of the PCAP files is required at the moment. Simulating devices ================== The Linux driver mac80211_hwsim provides the functionality to simulate Wireless devices using fake virtual air. Just load the module. modprobe mac80211_hwsim radios=0 Providing the radios=0 is important since otherwise it starts out with two new Wireless radios by default. With the provided hwsim utility it is now possible to add and remove virtual radio devices. hwsim --create --keep hwsim --destroy=<radio-id> The radio id assigned to each virtual device is its internal id used by the Wireless device. Information =========== Mailing list: https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/iwd IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#iwd