[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 1/4] brcmfmac: Add brcm, nvram_file_name dt property

[Kalle Valo]

Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel at broadcom.com> writes:

>>> Typical wifi devices will have some sort of non volatile storage
>>> on board to not only store the ethernet(mac) address, but also
>>> to contain e.g. info about the antenna gain so that the firmware
>>> and/or the driver can take the antenna gain into account and ensure
>>> that they never exceed the maximum allowed broadcast strength.
>>>
>>> However on some embedded devices there is no non-volatile storage
>>> for the wifi (for cost reasons) and instead this configuration info
>>> (which is board / pcb specific) is loaded in the form of a
>>> file which contains the contents which would normally be in the
>>> non-volatile storage.
>>>
>>> Since we are dealing with a per-board config-file here, which is
>>> loaded from the os filesystem we really need to specify a basename
>>> here as the list of possible boards is endless, so we cannot
>>> have a lookup table in the driver.
>
> As a note: For BT Marcel was playing with the idea of having a lookup
> table on the file system which would be loaded by the driver.

In ath10k we have a similar problem but in our case we can use the
subsystem id to detect what board file to use, so it's not exactly same
as yours. In our board-2.bin we have identifiers like this from which
ath10k selects the correct board file:

bus=pci,vendor=168c,device=003e,subsystem-vendor=168c,subsystem-device=334e
bus=pci,vendor=168c,device=003e,subsystem-vendor=168c,subsystem-device=3360
bus=pci,vendor=168c,device=003e,subsystem-vendor=168c,subsystem-device=3361

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Kalle Valo