Upgrade firmware of QCA-9880

[Amato Carbonara]

Thank you!  I upgraded to kernel 4.0 and successfully installed
firmware 10.2.4.48

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> wrote:
> On 22 April 2015 at 22:15, Amato Carbonara <acarbonara13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am currently running:
>> driver=ath10k_pci driverversion=3.13.0-49-generic firmware=10.1.467.2-1
>>
>> I would like to update the firmware to 10.2.4 (latest release).  I am
>> unable to update the software by copying the file
>> "firmware-4.bin_10.2.4.48" from
>> https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/10.2.4
>>
>> I copy the file from github into /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/
>>
>> I have kept the original file name, changed it to "firmware-4.bin" and
>> also changed it to "firmware-2.bin" but the firmware does not upgrade
>> to 10.2.4
>
> 10.2.4 uses a different firmware filename for a reason.
>
> 10.2.4 has some ABI differences compared to 10.1 and the driver must
> be aware of them in order to be able to use it. You seem to have
> kernel 3.13 (or at least ath10k from that kernel release for that
> matter). This is pretty ancient. If you want to run 10.2.4 you need to
> switch to kernel version 4.0 at least.
>
> In case you're interested the older 10.2
> (https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/10.2) requires
> kernel 3.18 at least.
>
>
> Michał