Have the QCA6390 patches for XPS 9310 landed yet?

[Kalle Valo]

Mitchell Nordine <mail at mitchellnordine.com> writes:

>> I've been running 5.12 and 5.13 without WIFI issues. Occasionally I
>> still have bluetooth problems and the i915 drivers are causing video
>> artifacts randomly, but the wireless connection seems pretty solid at
>> this point.
>
> Thanks for the udpate!
>
> Recently a collaborator updated the `nixos/nixos-hardware` repo's
> kernel version to `5.12.9` for the xps 9310 as wifi and bluetooth is
> working out-of-the-box for them now. I was excited to update and try
> this myself, however despite having the same kernel version (5.12.9),
> the same qca6390 fw version (fw_version 0x101c06cc fw_build_timestamp
> 2020-06-24 19:50) and almost the same system firmware version (them
> 3.0.3, me 3.0.4) I'm running into an issue where I get some `qmi`
> errors and then the wifi firmware ends up crashing. Here's the
> relevant dmesg output on my system:
>
> $ dmesg | grep -e ath11
> [ 3.937129] ath11k_pci 0000:72:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem
> 0xa2500000-0xa25fffff 64bit]
> [    3.937147] ath11k_pci 0000:72:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> [ 4.203596] ath11k_pci 0000:72:00.0: chip_id 0x0 chip_family 0xb
> board_id 0xff soc_id 0xffffffff
> [ 4.207005] ath11k_pci 0000:72:00.0: fw_version 0x101c06cc
> fw_build_timestamp 2020-06-24 19:50 fw_build_id
> [ 9.291281] ath11k_pci 0000:72:00.0: qmi failed set mode request,
> mode: 0, err = -110
> [    9.291293] ath11k_pci 0000:72:00.0: qmi failed to send wlan fw mode:-110
> [    9.291297] ath11k_pci 0000:72:00.0: failed to attach wmi: -110
> [    9.291305] ath11k_pci 0000:72:00.0: failed to start core: -110
> [   20.250729] ath11k_pci 0000:72:00.0: firmware crashed: MHI_CB_SYS_ERROR
>
> My collaborator's system (whose wifi is working) has the same output,
> but without the last 5 lines of errors:
>
> ~ » dmesg | grep -e ath11
> [ 19.872599] ath11k_pci 0000:72:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem
> 0xa2500000-0xa25fffff 64bit]
> [   19.872617] ath11k_pci 0000:72:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> [ 20.380168] ath11k_pci 0000:72:00.0: chip_id 0x0 chip_family 0xb
> board_id 0xff soc_id 0xffffffff
> [ 20.380171] ath11k_pci 0000:72:00.0: fw_version 0x101c06cc
> fw_build_timestamp 2020-06-24 19:50 fw_build_id
>
> Here's their PR that removes the patches and updates to the 5.12
> kernel. https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/pull/298
>
> I checked out the bug report mentioned by justin
> (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212059) however it
> appears to be unrelated... at least I don't see any of the same `qmi`
> errors, and their firmware at least runs long enough that they can
> connect to a 2.4GHz network.
>
> Any ideas what might be going on here?

Did you set the memmap parameter explained in [1]. I strongly recommend
everyone to set the memmap until the firmware is fixed.

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210923

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