ath10k failing with firmware RM.4.4-00022-QCARMSWPZ-2 on QCA6174 (Killer 1535)

[Bartosz Markowski]

On 16 January 2017 at 20:24, Chris Le Sueur <thefishface at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> (per request by kvalo on #ath10k)
>
> I was trying out the firmware-5 from git to see if it would fix
> throughput issues, but instead the driver just failed to work. I am
> using kernel 4.8.15 on Fedora 25, and the following was printed to the
> kernel log:
>
> ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0
> reset_mode 0
> ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/pre-cal-pci-
> 0000:3a:00.0 .bin failed with error -2
> ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-
> 0000:3a:00.0.bin failed with error -2
> ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id
> 0x00340aff sub 1a56:1535
> ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 0 dfs 0
> testmode 0
> ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.4.4-00022-QCARMSWPZ-2 api
> 5 features wowlan,ignore-otp crc32 4d458559
> ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: failed to fetch board data for bus=pci,bmi-
> chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=0 from ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
> ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id 0:0 crc32 ed5f849a

Please try to apply this patch -
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9486941/ and retry.

-Bartosz