failed to fetch board data

[Kalle Valo]

Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet at redhat.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 7:42 PM Sven Eckelmann <sven at narfation.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, 3 February 2022 15:56:29 CET Íñigo Huguet wrote:
>> > Since it seems that there might be many variants that need to be known
>> > in the board-2.bin file, is it possible to know which ones are
>> > supported and which ones are not?
>>
>>     git clone https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware
>>     git clone https://github.com/qca/qca-swiss-army-knife
>>
>>     ./qca-swiss-army-knife/tools/scripts/ath11k/ath11k-bdencoder -i ath11k-firmware/WCN6855/hw2.0/board-2.bin|grep BoardName
>>
>> Which returns following list:
>>
>>     BoardNames[0]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=17cb,subsystem-device=3374,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=262'
>>     BoardNames[1]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=17cb,subsystem-device=3374,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=266'
>>     BoardNames[2]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=17cb,subsystem-device=3374,qmi-chip-id=18,qmi-board-id=266'
>>     BoardNames[3]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=14cd,subsystem-device=9409,qmi-chip-id=18,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[4]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=14cd,subsystem-device=9409,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[5]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=17cb,subsystem-device=0108,qmi-chip-id=18,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[6]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=17cb,subsystem-device=0108,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[7]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=105b,subsystem-device=e0ce,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[8]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=105b,subsystem-device=e0ce,qmi-chip-id=18,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[9]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=14cd,subsystem-device=9308,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[10]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=17aa,subsystem-device=9308,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[11]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=17aa,subsystem-device=9309,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[12]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=17aa,subsystem-device=9309,qmi-chip-id=18,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[13]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=17aa,subsystem-device=e0be,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[14]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=105b,subsystem-device=e0bb,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[15]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=105b,subsystem-device=e0c4,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[16]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=105b,subsystem-device=e0c4,qmi-chip-id=18,qmi-board-id=255'
>>     BoardNames[17]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=17cb,subsystem-device=3374,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=771'
>>     BoardNames[18]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=17cb,subsystem-device=3374,qmi-chip-id=18,qmi-board-id=771'
>>
>> Keep in mind, that there can also be multiple supported values per line (aka
>> "per BDF"/board.bin).  This doesn't seem to be the case because there is no
>> extra entry (see placeholder "foobar") like in following example :
>>
>>
>>     BoardNames[XXXX]: 'bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=14cd,subsystem-device=9409,qmi-chip-id=18,qmi-board-id=255','foobar'
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>         Sven
>
> Thanks for this info, it's really useful.
>
> I assume that to get the card supported I can only wait it to be added
> in kvalo firmware repo, right?

We need to find the correct board file for your hardware. Can you
describe more what hardware you have?

And for easier tracking I recommend filing this missing board file to
bugzilla:

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath11k/bugreport

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