[PATCH 00/11] SDIO support for ath10k

[Kalle Valo]

Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 01:16:13PM +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 10:54:26PM +0530, Alagu Sankar wrote:
>> > On 05-10-2017 20:42, Gary Bisson wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > First of all, thank you for sharing your patches, this will be a very
>> > > nice improvement to have SDIO QCA9377 working with ath10k.
>> > > 
>> > > I've tried your series with Nitrogen7 [1] platform which is supported in
>> > > mainline already. It uses BD-SDMAC [2] which uses the same module as the
>> > > SX-SDMAC.
>> > > 
>> > > Below are some questions/remarks I have after the testing.
>> > > 
>> > > Quick question on the firmware, is it the one from Kalle's repository?[3]
>> > > 
>> > > If so, where does this firmware comes from? Is 00061 the firmware
>> > > version? So far I've only seen up to v0.0.0.60, see qcacld-2.0 output:
>> > > Host SW:4.5.20.037, FW:0.0.0.60, HW:QCA9377_REV1_1
>> >
>> > Yes, it is from
>> > https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA9377/hw1.0/untested.
>> > I have also used custom firmware from QCA/Silex as used in qcacld-2.0 driver
>> > without any issue. You need to use the firmware merger tool from
>> > https://github.com/erstrom/linux-ath/wiki/Firmware to combine the
>> > qwlan30.bin and otp30.bin to generate the firmware-sdio.bin.
>> 
>> Good to know, thanks. Maybe Kalle can tell us more about the firmware
>> itself, what's the difference between the version 0.0.0.60 and 0.0.0.61?
>
> Any update on this, is there a release notes for this 0.0.0.61 firmware?

Unfortunately I don't have any changelogs for the firmware releases.

> As a FYI, I've tried your ath10k patches (along with a few backported
> patches from Erik) on the NXP-fork of 4.9 kernel [1].
>
> I confirm that it provides pretty decent performances:
> - ath10k: 110Mbit/s
> - qcacld-2.0: 125Mbit/s
>
> Here are some details about the setup:
> - TPLink AC router
> - Nitrogen7 (i.MX7) with BD-SDMAC
> - Kernel 4.9.68 (NXP fork [1])
> - FW 0.0.0.61 from ath10k-firmware repo

Nice, thanks for the report. This is always helpful.

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Kalle Valo