support for WCN6855 liteon subsystem device 11ad:a82d

[Kalle Valo]

Kalle Valo <kvalo at kernel.org> writes:

> Wim Van Boven <wimvanboven at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> the firmware doesn't have the board information for this
>> subsystem-device:
>>
>> 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCNFA765
>> [17cb:1103] (rev 01)
>> Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device [11ad:a82d]
>>
>> however, it seems to work fine with this one:
>> bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=14cd,subsystem-device=9409,qmi-chip-id=18,qmi-board-id=255m
>>
>> i hexedited the board-2.bin and swapped out the vendor and device
>> identifiers to match the LiteOn ones, which seems to work properly,
>> but is likely not the proper way to do this.
>
> BTW we have a tool for creating board-2.bin so that you don't need to
> use hexedit:
>
> https://github.com/qca/qca-swiss-army-knife/blob/master/tools/scripts/ath11k/ath11k-bdencoder
>
> Unfortunately no documentation but hopefully --help provides some guidance.
>
>> what would be the proper way to get support for this device and how
>> can i help?
>
> Can you report this to bugzilla.kernel.org:
>
> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath11k/bugreport
>
> That way it's easier to track. I'll try to find a board file for this
> device.

I see that you filed it now, thanks.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215946

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