Iter 1 finding from /loop 5m SOTA sprint: two C6 boards now mesh through
the c6_softap_he soft-AP (COM12 hosts ruview-c6-twt, COM9 associates), but
COM9 lands at phymode(0x3, 11bgn), he:0 — the soft-AP doesn't advertise
HE. Confirmed by full grep of components/esp_wifi/include/esp_wifi*.h:
the public API exposes ONLY STA-side iTWT/bTWT. There is no
esp_wifi_ap_set_he_config, no wifi_he_ap_config_t, no wifi_config_t.ap.he_*
field — soft-AP HE/TWT-Responder advertise is not user-controllable on
ESP32-C6 in IDF v5.4.
Consequence: B1/B2 cannot be measured via the two-C6 path on this IDF
release. The c6_softap_he module ships as the in-place hook for any
future IDF release that exposes the API; until then a real 11ax router
or phone hotspot remains the path. Sharpens the open question from "do
we need an 11ax AP?" to "we need either a future IDF AP-side HE config
API, or an external 11ax AP".
WITNESS-LOG-110 §A0.6 records the parallel boot logs from both boards
plus the IDF surface grep evidence.
c6_softap_he.c gains an ESP_LOGW at AP-up time so operators understand
exactly why STAs land at 11bgn (avoids confusion with the v0.6.6 §A8
graceful-TWT-NACK story).
While here: cleared the three -Wunused-variable warnings in swarm_bridge.c
that fired on every build (fw_ver, free_heap, presence in heartbeat block).
fw_ver now feeds an ESP_LOGI so the boot log names the build; free_heap +
heartbeat-presence were dead anyway. Pure ultra-opt: smaller .o files, zero
warning noise.
Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
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