[OpenWrt-Devel] How to initialize multiple phy radios

[Christian Lamparter]

Hello,

On Monday, April 25, 2016 10:53:41 AM David Hutchison wrote:
> So with some modifications to pci.c, hw.h and core.c I was able to get
> the radio initialized! :)

Hey, that's nice! Can you make and post a patch for that? 
I'm sure if it's just a matter of adding the new pci and chip
ids to the tables. You could just go ahead and post it, so it
will be picked up.

> pci.c: added QCA9887_DEVICE_ID, modified ath10k_pci_id_table and
> ath10k_pci_supp_chips
> core.c: Duplicated QCA988X entry in ath10k_hw_params_list and passed
> 0x4100016d as the ID ( left everything else the same )
> hw.h: added definitions for QCA9887
> 
> I found "https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/blob/master/QCA9887/firmware-5.bin_10.2.3.31.7-1"
> on your github and replaced
> /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/firmware-5.bin on my board.
> hotplug.d then loaded QCA9887 firmware on next boot.
> 
> Of course my approach was very much a hack. If there is anything I can
> contribute to creating a patch for ath10k, please let me know. I would
> love to help!
> 
> dmesg
> [   18.920000] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: pci irq legacy interrupts 0
> irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
> [   19.030000] rev_id 00000000 QCA9887
> [   19.030000] dev_id 00000050 QCA9887
> [   20.460000] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: qca988x hw2.0 (0x4100016d,
> 0x004000ff sub 0000:0000) fw 10.2.3.31.7-1 fwapi 5 bdapi 1 htt-ver 2.1
> wmi-op 5 htt-op 2 cal file max-sta 1p
> [   20.480000] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: debug 1 debugfs 1 tracing 0
> dfs 0 testmode 1
> 
...

Does the device work? Can you scan for networks, connect to networks
and create networks? That would be good to know.

Regards,
Christian