Files
openairinterface5g/radio/fhi_72/README.md
Robert Schmidt 8107939f08 Change OAI license to CSSL v1.0 (and others)
- all RAN code, CI code, configuration files, dockerfiles, in CSSL v1.0
- all deployment code (openshift, charts, ancillary files like shell
  scripts), in MIT
- documentation in CC-BY-4.0
- exceptions might apply and are listed in NOTICE
- there is a new LICENSES folder with all licenses
- CONTRIBUTIONS.md has been updated accordingly

For automated changes based on OAI PL v1.1:

    perl -i~ -0pe 's/\/\*.*Licensed to the OpenAirInterface.*openairinterface.org\n#?/\/*\n * SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-CSSL-1.0\n/s' **/*.{c,h,cpp}
    perl -i~ -0pe 's/\/\*.*Licensed to the OpenAirInterface.*openairinterface.org\n#?/\/*\n * SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-CSSL-1.0\n/s' **/*.ts
    perl -i~ -0pe 's/<!--.*Licensed to the OpenAirInterface.*openairinterface.org\n.*-->/<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-CSSL-1.0 -->/s' **/*.xml

The rest (cmake, files with missing license, cmake) manually.
2026-03-27 16:36:37 +01:00

2.4 KiB

This document describes the driver for the xran driver, implementing O-RAN FHI 7.2 interface. This is for developers; for user documentation, consider the O-RAN 7.2 tutorial instead.

The main source files and their purpose are as follows:

  • oaioran.c: definition of xran-specific callback functions.
  • oran-config.c: reading of 7.2-specific configuration and preparing xran configration.
  • oran-init.c: initialization of xran.
  • oran_isolate.c: main entry point and definition of function pointers for OAI callbacks.

The entry point for the driver library is transport_init() in oran_isolate.c. This function is concerned with setting necessary function pointers for OAI integration, and prepares xran configuration through get_xran_config(). This function reads 7.2 specific configuration and deduces some of the parameters (e.g., frequency) from OAI-provided radio configuration in openair0_config_t.

Actual xran initialization happens in oai_oran_initialize() in oran-init.c. It calls various helper function in the same file to set up DPDK memory buffer (pools). Notably, these callbacks are installed:

  • oai_xran_fh_rx_callback() through xran_5g_fronthault_config(): callback for PUSCH data; used to provide timing data.
  • oai_xran_fh_rx_prach_callback() through xran_5g_prach_req(): callback for PRACH data; not currently used and implemented in PUSCH data callback.
  • oai_physide_dl_tti_call_back() through xran_reg_physide_cb(): only used to unblock timing in oai_xran_fh_rx_callback() upon first xran call.

More detailed information about the xran callbacks can be taken from the xran documentation.

During normal operation, OAI calls into the driver through functions oran_fh_if4p5_south_in() for PUSCH/PRACH and oran_fh_if4p5_south_out() for PDSCH.

For PDSCH, oran_fh_if4p5_south_out() calls xran_fh_tx_send_slot() that optionally compresses IQ data, then writes it into IQ buffers of xran.

For PUSCH/PRACH, oran_fh_if4p5_south_in() calls xran_fh_rx_read_slot() that blocks and waits for the next slot. This is done through either a message queue, or through polling, which in both cases depends on xran calling the callback oai_xran_fh_rx_callback() as installed during xran initialization. Once unblocked, it reads first PRACH data, then PUSCH data, before returning to OAI.