ath11k: firmware variants for WCN6855 v2

[Chun Wu]

the special board.bin need to be signed by CE.  Fw will be crash with no signed board.bin.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wen Gong (QUIC) <quic_wgong at quicinc.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 10:47 AM
To: Sven Eckelmann <sven at narfation.org>; ath11k at lists.infradead.org; Chun Wu <chunwu at qti.qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: ath11k: firmware variants for WCN6855 v2

On 12/14/2021 9:37 PM, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the EmWicon WMX7205 (Milan) seems to have a special board.bin from the 
> manufacturer. But when using it, the firmware seems to crash:
>
>      [   10.710206] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xd0000000-0xd01fffff 64bit]
>      [   10.819230] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: MSI vectors: 1
>      [   10.840305] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wcn6855 hw2.0
>      [   12.234095] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: chip_id 0x2 chip_family 0xb board_id 0xff soc_id 0x400c0200
>      [   12.242991] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: fw_version 0x110c0b4c fw_build_timestamp 2021-11-24 04:24 fw_build_id QC_IMAGE_VERSION_STRING=WLAN.HSP.1.1-02892.1-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-1
>      [   12.271180] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: qmi failed to load CAL data file:cal-pci-0000:01:00.0.bin
>      [   12.520852] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware crashed: MHI_CB_SYS_ERROR
>      [   22.333795] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to wait board file download request: -110
>      [   22.341751] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: qmi failed to load bdf file
>      [   22.347921] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to load board data file: -110
>
> But they also provided a firmware which doesn't end with
> QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-1 but with QCAHSPSWPL_V2_SILICONZ_CE-1. 
> This firmware doesn't seem to crash with their board.bin.
>
> Does anybody know whether the firmware QCAHSPSWPL_V2_SILICONZ_CE-1 
> (which cannot be found in Kalle's repository) is actually meant to work with ath11k?
> At least from past experience (with HK01), I know that the firmware 
> for the proprietary driver is not meant to be used for ath11k and 
> caused interesting crashes.

As I know, the firmware
WLAN.HSP.1.1-02892.1-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-1 has validation for the board data file.

And the special board.bin did not pass the validation, so firmware crashed.

>
> Kind regards,
> 	Sven