ath10k-firmware: QCA4019 hw1.0: Update 8devices Habanero specific BDFs

Kalle Valo kvalo at kernel.org
Fri Jan 21 05:25:55 PST 2022


Robert Marko <robimarko at gmail.com> writes:

> I am currently working on the 8devices Habanero support for
> OpenWrt. This
> AP requires two special BDFs to get the Wi-Fi PHYs working (correctly). The
> bmi-board-id='s would clash with one of the the IPQ401X AP-DK boards because
> QCA doesn't provide special IDs for customers and seems to use the AP-DK
> board-ids in the wifi firmware to change its behavior.
>
> This update improves 5GHz radio.
>
> Now to the questions from the wiki page [1]:
>
> * description for what hardware this is:
>
>   - it is a QCA4019 based module
>   - one QCA4019 radio is used as 2.4GHz radio
>   - one QCA4019 radio is used as 5GHz radio
>
> * origin of the board file (did you create it yourself or where you
>   downloaded)
>
>   - it was pulled from the 8devices OpenWrt fork
>   - it is based on latest version
>
> * ids to be used with the board file (ATH10K_BD_IE_BOARD_NAME in ath10k)
>
>   - QCA4019 hw1.0
>
>   + bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=16,variant=8devices-Habanero
>      md5sum:
>      64d0817da715875483d323f2bb0c898c
>
>   + bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=17,variant=8devices-Habanero
>      md5sum:
>      56202ea33e96f16c65b75d464451c251
>
> * attach the actual board file (board.bin)
>
>   - The name of the files are equal to the id string in the board-2.bin
>     (minus the ".bin")

Do note that it seems that only one board file contents was actually
changed, was that on purpose?

Thanks, added to QCA4019/hw1.0/board-2.bin:

New:


Changed:
bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=17,variant=8devices-Habanero

Deleted:

0 board image(s) added, 1 changed, 0 deleted, 60 in total

https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/commit/1fad4d7a4aab0bb7daaabd5324c2b87e438d9bac


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