Have the QCA6390 patches for XPS 9310 landed yet?

[Jens Gecius]

Am 30.07.21 um 23:52 schrieb Justin Mazzola Paluska:
> On 7/30/21 4:08 PM, wi nk wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 10:01 PM Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> Mitchell Nordine <mail at mitchellnordine.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi kvalo and wink!
>>>>
>>>> It's been a while since I've had a chance to check in on this - have I
>>>> missed any QCA6390 progress?
>>>>
>>>> Currently the nixos-hardware repo is fixed to 5.10.18 along with most
>>>> of the patches on ath11k-qca6390-bringup, apart from two commits that
>>>> I'm sure were merged a while ago.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/31f61b90ddb9257b94888ee17ccf96236e180c76/dell/xps/13-9310/default.nix#L14 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just wondering if the rest of the patches or some alternative fixes
>>>> have landed in a more recent version of the kernel yet, and whether
>>>> it's worth diving in and updating our nix expr yet?
>>> Basically all you need is a BIOS update for XPS 9310 (to get 32 MSI
>>> vectors working) and a recent Linux release. I don't remember the exact
>>> kernel release, and can't check it now, but something like v5.12 or
>>> v5.13 should work without extra patches.
>>>
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>>
>> Hey Mitchell!
>>
>>    Just to add a little, Dell released a BIOS update that now allows
>> the driver to obtain all 32 MSI vectors (I posted around the time that
>> happened if you need the earliest version, otherwise just grab the
>> latest version).  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.
>
> Which BIOS do you have?  I have 1.2.5.

Just to add my experience - WiFi and BT are working. I'm on BIOS 3.0.4 
(upgraded today via fwupdmgr / lvfs) with 5.13.5 / fedora 34 / xps 9310 
32G dev edition. BT works since BIOS 2.something and kernel 5.12

No memmap kernel parameter needed.

>
> I'm currently running 5.13 with a patch that reverted 
> 3579994476b65cb5e272ff0f720a1fd31322e53f.  I needed to do that or the 
> 5.13 kernel wouldn't connect to my access point because the firmware 
> crashed.  (I got that pointer from 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212059.)  With 357999 
> reverted, everything works well.
>
> I still have the memmap=20M$12M kernel argument set from the old qca 
> bringup branch days.  Do you also use that?
>      --Justin
>