[PATCH v5 00/12] add support for WCN6750

Manikanta Pubbisetty quic_mpubbise at quicinc.com
Tue Apr 26 22:32:57 PDT 2022


On 4/27/2022 10:46 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Kalle Valo <kvalo at kernel.org> writes:
> 
>> Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise at quicinc.com> writes:
>>
>>> WCN6750 is non-DBS 2x2 11AX chipset. Unlike QCA6390/WCN6855 which
>>> are DBS (dual band simultaneous) solutions (2 LMACs), WCN6750 has a
>>> single LMAC supporting 2G, 5G and 6G bands. It can be operated only
>>> on one band at any given point.
>>>
>>> WCN6750 is a PCIe device. Unlike other supported ATH11K PCIe devices
>>> which are directly attached to APSS (Application Processor SubSystem),
>>> WCN6750 is not attached to APSS, it is attached to the WPSS
>>> (Wireless Processor SubSystem) Q6 processor, the FW which runs on the
>>> Q6 processor will enumerate the PCIe device. Since APSS is unaware of
>>> such a device, it has to be registered as a platform device(AHB) to the
>>> kernel for device probing. Like other AHB devices, remoteproc APIs are
>>> used to boot up or shutdown of WCN6750.
>>>
>>> WCN6750 uses both AHB and PCIe ATH11K APIs for it's operation.
>>> It uses AHB APIs for device probe and booting of the remote processor.
>>> Once device is booted up, it uses ATH11K PCIe APIs for initialization
>>> and register access. Hence, it is referred as hybrid bus device in
>>> the rest of this series.
>>>
>>> Since the chip is enumerated by WPSS Q6, device information like
>>> BAR and BAR size is not known to the APSS processor. A new QMI message
>>> called device info QMI request will be sent to the target for fetching
>>> these details.
>>>
>>> STA and AP modes are supported; Basic connectivity and ping are
>>> verified in both the modes.
>>>
>>> An important point to note is that though WCN6750 is a PCIe device,
>>> it cannot be attached to any other platform except on Qualcomm
>>> Snapdragon SoCs due to the aforementioned reasons.
>>>
>>> Tested-on: WCN6750 hw1.0 AHB WLAN.MSL.1.0.1-00887-QCAMSLSWPLZ-1
>>> Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-01720.1-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-1
>>> Tested-on: QCN9074 hw1.0 PCI WLAN.HK.2.5.0.1-01100-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
>>> Tested-on: IPQ8074 hw2.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.4.0.1-00192-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
>>>
>>> Manikanta Pubbisetty (12):
>>>    dt: bindings: net: add bindings of WCN6750 for ath11k
>>>    ath11k: Add HW params for WCN6750
>>>    ath11k: Add bus params for WCN6750
>>>    ath11k: Add register access logic for WCN6750
>>>    ath11k: Fetch device information via QMI for WCN6750
>>>    ath11k: Add QMI changes for WCN6750
>>>    ath11k: HAL changes to support WCN6750
>>>    ath11k: Datapath changes to support WCN6750
>>>    ath11k: Do not put HW in DBS mode for WCN6750
>>>    ath11k: WMI changes to support WCN6750
>>>    ath11k: Update WBM idle ring HP after FW mode on
>>>    ath11k: Add support for WCN6750 device
>>> ---
>>> V5:
>>>   - Rebased on ToT SHAID: 01be26cde012478db958d9bde530877c46031e76
>>
>> I already had v4 applied to the pending branch so I'm going to drop v5
>> and look at v4 instead.
> 
> I see that you also added Rob's reviewed-by to patch 1. Please include
> ALL changes in the changes list, otherwise review is difficult as we
> don't know what you changed.
> 

Sorry for the inconvenience caused, I thought the reviewed-by addition 
is trivial and did not add it to the change list. Going forward, I'll 
take care of it.

Thanks,
Manikanta



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