[RFC PULL] ath11k: move WCN6750 firmware to the device-specific subdir

[Jeff Johnson]

On 10/10/2024 11:16 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> The firmware under ath11k/WCN6750 can not be utilized on other devices using
> WCN6750 to provide WiFi (e.g. on the Qualcomm RB3 gen2 board).  This is an
> attempt to propose a solution by moving the file into device-specifig subdir.
> Other platforms can place firmware files in other subdirs, depending on the
> SoC.
> 
> Note, while performing the move I also propose squashing the firmware file.
> This is the practice recommended by the msm platform maintainers for the DSP
> firmware (not to mention that it also saves us from the extra symlinks). If
> Kalle, ath11k maintainer, objects, I will keep the firmware in the split form.
> 
> For now this is an RFC in order to gather opinion form respective platform and
> driver maintainers.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The following changes since commit d55315295cccf8ce5dc288a74d75cf09b8063cfc:
> 
>   Merge branch 'superm1/qci-patches' into 'main' (2024-10-10 19:11:13 +0000)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/lumag/linux-firmware wcn6750-device-specific
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to abe8c109a2b4c422b627335d124473734c8790d8:
> 
>   ath11k: move WCN6750 firmware to the device-specific subdir (2024-10-10 22:26:20 +0300)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dmitry Baryshkov (1):
>       ath11k: move WCN6750 firmware to the device-specific subdir
> 
>  WHENCE                                             |  12 ++----------
>  ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/{wpss.b04 => sc7280/wpss.mbn} | Bin 5819999 -> 7463728 bytes
>  ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b00                      | Bin 340 -> 0 bytes
>  ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b01                      | Bin 6848 -> 0 bytes
>  ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b02                      | Bin 10300 -> 0 bytes
>  ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b03                      | Bin 4096 -> 0 bytes
>  ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b05                      | Bin 164332 -> 0 bytes
>  ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b06                      | Bin 266684 -> 0 bytes
>  ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b07                      | Bin 1176368 -> 0 bytes
>  ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b08                      |   0
>  ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.mdt                      | Bin 7188 -> 0 bytes
>  11 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>  rename ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/{wpss.b04 => sc7280/wpss.mbn} (77%)
>  delete mode 100644 ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b00
>  delete mode 100644 ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b01
>  delete mode 100644 ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b02
>  delete mode 100644 ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b03
>  delete mode 100644 ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b05
>  delete mode 100644 ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b06
>  delete mode 100644 ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b07
>  delete mode 100644 ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.b08
>  delete mode 100644 ath11k/WCN6750/hw1.0/wpss.mdt

I'm waiting for Kalle to respond, but at a minimum I suspect our internal
firmware tooling would be impacted by this change.

Kalle, do you have concerns or suggestions on how to handle this issue?

/jeff