3 rmnet driver is used for supporting the Multiplexing and aggregation
4 Protocol (MAP). This protocol is used by all recent chipsets using Qualcomm
5 Technologies, Inc. modems.
7 This driver can be used to register onto any physical network device in
8 IP mode. Physical transports include USB, HSIC, PCIe and IP accelerator.
10 Multiplexing allows for creation of logical netdevices (rmnet devices) to
11 handle multiple private data networks (PDN) like a default internet, tethering,
12 multimedia messaging service (MMS) or IP media subsystem (IMS). Hardware sends
13 packets with MAP headers to rmnet. Based on the multiplexer id, rmnet
14 routes to the appropriate PDN after removing the MAP header.
16 Aggregation is required to achieve high data rates. This involves hardware
17 sending aggregated bunch of MAP frames. rmnet driver will de-aggregate
18 these MAP frames and send them to appropriate PDN's.
22 a. MAP packet (data / control)
24 MAP header has the same endianness of the IP packet.
28 Bit 0 1 2-7 8 - 15 16 - 31
29 Function Command / Data Reserved Pad Multiplexer ID Payload length
33 Command (1)/ Data (0) bit value is to indicate if the packet is a MAP command
34 or data packet. Control packet is used for transport level flow control. Data
35 packets are standard IP packets.
37 Reserved bits are usually zeroed out and to be ignored by receiver.
39 Padding is number of bytes to be added for 4 byte alignment if required by
42 Multiplexer ID is to indicate the PDN on which data has to be sent.
44 Payload length includes the padding length but does not include MAP header
47 b. MAP packet (command specific)
49 Bit 0 1 2-7 8 - 15 16 - 31
50 Function Command Reserved Pad Multiplexer ID Payload length
51 Bit 32 - 39 40 - 45 46 - 47 48 - 63
52 Function Command name Reserved Command Type Reserved
54 Function Transaction ID
58 Command 1 indicates disabling flow while 2 is enabling flow
61 0 for MAP command request
62 1 is to acknowledge the receipt of a command
63 2 is for unsupported commands
64 3 is for error during processing of commands
68 Aggregation is multiple MAP packets (can be data or command) delivered to
69 rmnet in a single linear skb. rmnet will process the individual
70 packets and either ACK the MAP command or deliver the IP packet to the
71 network stack as needed
73 MAP header|IP Packet|Optional padding|MAP header|IP Packet|Optional padding....
74 MAP header|IP Packet|Optional padding|MAP header|Command Packet|Optional pad...
76 3. Userspace configuration
78 rmnet userspace configuration is done through netlink library librmnetctl
79 and command line utility rmnetcli. Utility is hosted in codeaurora forum git.
80 The driver uses rtnl_link_ops for communication.
82 https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/dataservices/tree/rmnetctl