Atheros EEPROM manager v2.1.1

Service release. Few minor changes:

• facilitate rebuild on configuration change to make packaging easier;
• fix QCA9888 and QCA6174 endian support.

Atheros EEPROM manager v2.1

Introduce new chips support:

• QCA6174;
• QCA9888 (inc. IPQ4018/IPQ4019).

New formats support is more like a stub (checksum checking, MAC address printing, CTL data dumping), but this is better than nothing :)

Also add a CTL data dumping support for QCA9860/QCA9880/QCA9890.

As usual all supported chips (formats) could be revealed with:
$ atheepmgr -vh

Atheros EEPROM manager v2.0

More stability and more functionality!

User noticeable changes:

• EEPROM/chip type specification is mandatory for I/O memory connector too (actually for any non-PnP connector);
• support EEPROM format type specification by an exact chip name or by a PCI DevID for non-PnP connectors (e.g. for direct I/O memory connector);
• list supported chips in the usage message;
• improve endians mismatching handling: improve endians detection, fix several fields printing; now BE data on LE host and LE data on BE host should be dumped flawlessly;
• QCA98x support (OTP reading, binary unpacking and calibration data dumping);
• support for accessing hardware via the ath9k/ath10k debugfs interface;
• support for unpacked (OTP) calibration data saving;
• support for template exporting;
• list known templates in the usage message;
• precise detection of some .11n chips (e.g. distinguish between AR9280 and AR9220, etc.);
• ar5211: dump tx power related data only for enabled bands;
• ar9300: initialization (PCI PnP related) data dumping.

Internal changes (mostly developer noticeable):

• generalize OTP memory access interface;
• generalize calibration data unpacking routines of template based compression;
• split EEPROM/OTP/Blob data loading on to dedicated handlers;
• use dependency generation to rebuild on header changes;
• compactify byteswapping and unify across EEPROM types;
• normalize macros names: use per-chip prefixes, etc.;
• combine supported chips list with PCI ID(s) and make this list connector agnostic;
• overall code cleanup including whitespaces normalization.

Atheros EEPROM manager v1.3.1

A lot of improvements for power detector calibration data output of EEP5416 format (for AR54xx, AR92xx chips): account power offset, fix gain value printing, fix per PD ADC gain data selection.

Atheros EEPROM manager v1.3

AR93xx (AR95xx) improvements:

• more clear Tx Power calibrations displaying
• MAC address updating support

AR5416 (AR9160, AR92xx) improvements:

• modal data displaying compaction (e.g. print per-chain data on a single line)
• Rx gain table type displaying
• correct ADC & PGA desired sizes values and units
• correct timing related fields values and units
• CTL erasing support
• update modal data field descriptions to improve readability

AR52xx improvements:

• rearrage fields order to group fields of the same nature

General improvements:

• make usage info compact

Atheros EEPROM manager v1.2.1

Maintenance release.

• Fix linking with libpciaccess under Ubuntu 18.04 (#2).

Atheros EEPROM manager v1.2

Minor improvements:

• unified 'customer data' dumping
• more compact output of AR5416 power data if band is disabled
• dump few more fields of AR93xx EEPROM(s)

Minor fixes

Fix AR9300 OTP reading via direct memory access (-M option)

First public release

First public release