Facilitates Wi-Fi parameter configuration and setup.
Supports factory testing and debugging.
Facilitates communication between the driver and the application layers.
Facilitates communication between the operating system (OS) and the wireless network hardware.
Initializes the firmware and downloads Board Data Files (BDF) required to bring up the WLAN RF.
Manages the control path and data path required for the 802.11 protocol.
A software component embedded in the Wi-Fi hardware device.
Manages low-level communication with the hardware.
Handles 802.11 protocol-based tasks like scanning for networks, establishing connections, and transmitting data over Wi-Fi hardware.
Manages secure connections to Wi-Fi networks.
Supports various security protocols, including WPA3, WPA2, and legacy ones.
Enables a network interface card to function as an access point and authentication server.
Transforms your device into a wireless hotspot.
Provides Wi-Fi connectivity and handles authentication to ensure that devices connected to the network are authorized.
Supports various authentication methods, including WPA, WPA2, WPA3, and Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP).
Functions as a remote authentication dial-in user service (RADIUS) client for communication with a RADIUS server.
Includes an integrated EAP server for certain EAP methods.
Manages the configuration of wireless devices.
Interfaces with mac80211, which uses the hardware-specific lower level ath11k driver.
A network stack provided by the OS.
Supports functions to manage the driver and handle various TCP/IP protocols as data flows to the driver.
Implements open-source WLAN protocols as part of the Linux kernel.
Handles the registration and configuration of the network subsystem through cfg80211. cfg80211 implements this configuration through nl80211 and wireless extensions (WEXT).
Acts as an interface between mac80211 and lower layers of ath11k driver.
Interfaces with mac80211 through ath11k_ops.
Sends data and management frames to the data path.
Sends configuration commands to the WMI path.
Performs operations such as scan, authentication, and association.
Manages the data traffic transmitted and received by WLAN.
Supports various features to ensure optimal performance.
Includes WMI, HTT, and HAL.
Implements high-level protocols between the host driver and firmware running on WLAN Qualcomm Hexagon™ Digital Signal Processor (Hexagon) on the SoC.
Typically, the WMI interface is used for control path transactions, and HTT is used for data path transactions.
Abstracts hardware data structures and implements the recipe for direct MMIO-based register access and memory access.
Depends on the hardware or chip.
Interfaces between data path driver and WLAN hardware in a highly optimized packet path implementation.
Provides host-target bus abstraction services.
Abstracts the peripheral control interface express (PCIe).
A hardware interface in the driver.
Implements hardware pipe, Standard Ring Interface (SRNG) based communication channel between the host driver and firmware running on the CE interface over PCIe.
Wireless Module Interface (WMI) – Control plane API definitions between host and firmware
Host Target Interface (HTT) – Data plane API definitions between host and firmware
Implements various 802.11 standards protocols and state machines, offloads, host command, scan algorithms and event handling
Performance algorithm implements performance related software algorithms like rate adaptation, transmit scheduler, Multi-User (MU) scheduler, MU grouping, Resource Unit (RU) allocator, Air Time Fairness (ATF) and hardware IP specific: Tx and Rx Data path, MAC control path sequences
MAC register programming and descriptor setup/completion, coexistence hardware recipes, chip power hardware recipes
PHY/RFA hardware component access interface implementation modules containing hardware programming sequences/recipes specific to a given PHY/RFA and platform hardware IP
Implements all platform specific SoC related services