QCN9074 load board data file failed

[Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan]

On 10/14/2025 7:42 AM, Doug Brewer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I’m currently running Linux kernel 6.17.2 on arm64 and testing the QCN9074,
> but it fails to start up.

Was this working for you before with an older kernel?

> It seems the issue is related to loading
> the board data:
> 
> ath11k_pci 0001:11:00.0: BAR 0 [mem 0xf2400000-0xf25fffff 64bit]: assigned
> ath11k_pci 0001:11:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> ath11k_pci 0001:11:00.0: MSI vectors: 16
> ath11k_pci 0001:11:00.0: qcn9074 hw1.0
> ath11k_pci 0001:11:00.0: chip_id 0x0 chip_family 0x0 board_id 0xff
> soc_id 0xffffffff
> ath11k_pci 0001:11:00.0: fw_version 0x2403072e fw_build_timestamp
> 2021-06-06 23:27 fw_build_id
> ath11k_pci 0001:11:00.0: qmi failed to load CAL data
> file:cal-pci-0001:11:00.0.bin

It seems the calibration data is not found in the file system as well.
Since calibration data will be specific to the hardware module, you
may want to check with the system/device manufacturer.

Vasanth