ath10k driver crashes whenever firmware crashes on ARM SoC

[Kalle Valo]

(Fixing top posting)

Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> writes:

> On 11 March 2014 00:40, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We do have a separate reset line controlled by a GPIO.  Using that
>> crashes the SoC's PCIe host implementation (whee!).  But I got help
>> from the SoC manufacturer and was able to get some instructions for
>> resetting their PCIe host controller.  When I do all the magic
>> incantations in the right order, the system can recover, albeit with a
>> fully reset ath10k chip.  This workaround is unfortunately specific to
>> the host device platform so it won't do you much good.
>
> ... it's not a complete loss!
>
> This to me says "we need a hook from the driver to call the host
> "reset the bus" thing".
>
> We also kinda need it for ath9k/ath5k (if it's not there) so AHB
> attached things can be reset by actually poking an SoC reset register.

Yeah, that kind of hook would be good to have.

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Kalle Valo