- Introduced command line and configuration options to set up PCI address, CPU cores used by DPDK, and DPDK file prefix for T2 offload.
- Made the dpdk_dev parameter (for setting the PCI address of the T2) mandatory.
- Configure dpdk_dev in the CI test cases.

- Replaced bbdev TEST_ASSERTs with the OAI macro AssertFatal() to harmonize error handling.
- Removed unused functions and macros from nrLDPC_offload.h.

- Reworked nrLDPC_decoder_offload.c to process all segments in a TB with a single call to LDPCdecoder() or LDPCencoder().
- Perform CRC checks on the T2.
- Modified nr_ulsch_decoding (gNB decoder) to:
  - Count processed segments.
  - Properly perform CRC checks.
- Created a constant NR_LDPC_MAX_NUM_CB to define the maximum number of codeblocks.
- Conditional library loading:
  - On gNB: Load ldpc_t2 library if offload is enabled using the --ldpc-offload-enable flag.
  - On UE: Load both ldpc_t2 and ldpc libraries since only encoder offload is supported.
- General cleanup of nrLDPC_decoder_offload.c for improved readability and maintainability.
- Modified the structure of LDPC encoder/decoder/offload parameters:
  - Introduced a structure for code block (CB) related parameters.
  - Removed parameter E from the encoder and offload parameter structures for clarity.
  - Replaced E with perCB->E_cb in the UE encoder code.

Integration: `2024.w22` (Part 1)

See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!2773

* !2698 Handle division by 0 gracefully in average channel level calculation
* !2743 Demystifying 10log10(2^30) in signal energy calculations.
* !2767 NR UE imeisv fix
* !2768 Over-estimate short and long BSR for better latency and TCP throughput
* !2769 maxMIMOLayers parameter in configuration file

hotfix: current vlm_master (5fa129cf3161da9ff2d67341e6277e818c0f5d6a)
breaks F1, NG, so use the one before
(940dd5fa9f3917913fd487b13dfddfacd0ded06e)

38.321 6.1.3.1 says: "The size of the RLC headers and MAC subheaders are
not considered in the buffer size computation" [for BSR]. However, prior
to this commit, we take the size signaled of the BSR and schedule the UE
with that amount of data, making it impossible for the UE to transmit
all its data at once (because it is the size signaled + headers).

In this commit, over-estimate the buffer status size. As we cannot know
the exact number and size of headers, we simply use "BSR size + n", as
done in function overestim_bsr_index().

* nb_re_pdsch is directly linked to nb_rb_pdsch, if the latter is 0 the
  former is also 0
* compute average channel level only when number of RE for PDSCH is not 0
  the average channel level will be set to 0 otherwise
* Added a log message to handle this special case, which is consequence
  of other issues in the RX chain
* with this commit, the inconsistency in the RX chain will be handled
  in later in nr_ue_pdsch_procedures with a demodulation failure

other minor changes:

* Improved clarity by using NR_NB_SC_PER_RB instead of hard-coded value 12 in nb of RBs calculation
* cleaned up unused variable and outdated comments

antennas.

Integration: `2024.w21`

See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!2757

* !2733 Remove duplicated function to reverse N bits
* !2712 rfsimulator: add support to simulate a long propagation delay
* !2695 improve polar init and polar readability
* !2709 Fix cmdline configmodule in phy simulators
* !2756 remove some enb dependencies in NR files
* !2687 bug fix ue UL payload filling randomly done in retransmissions (pointer not set)
* !2543 power/PHR normalizations for deltaMCS power adaptation
* !2719 Refactor LC handling at MAC
* !2736 Fix debug for ongoing transactions
* !2747 Fix aerial memory leak
* !2761 Use timeout command to kill hanging iperf3
* !2752 fix-dci11-type0-bitmap-setting
* !2759 Fix invalid MSG2 HARQ feedback attempt and remove accumulated_delta_PUCCH field from UE FAPI IF
* !2740 bugfix/cleanup: remove uint8_t to encode size plus some cleanup
* !2760 fix 5G NR SA FDD configs for 24 and 25 PRBs
* !2520 Documentation on coding style, workflow, and review instructions

It can happen that in the current DL slot, we cannot send an allocation
for Msg3 in a later UL slot. Up to this commit, MAC printed a warning.
However, this is not really a warning, as it will likely work in the
next or a later slot. So demote this to debug.

The starting point was the function do_NR_DLInformationTransfer() which
may deal with more than 256 bytes.

Then why not cleanup all the functions in the same file.
(And do a bit of formattting fixing while we're here.)

Then cleanup the callers of those functions.

Then, because of do_SIB23_NR() let's also cleanup in some
structures.

Not all the codebase was cleaned up, there surely remain some uint8_t
(and char/short/uint16_t) which are wrong.

UE was attempting to send ACK on MSG2 - was caused by missing brackets in if statement.

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/Fix_array_for_debug_ongoing_transactions' into integration_2024_w21c

Set appropriate length for csi payload calloc and memcpy, according to bit_len