unknown qca6164 model 0x0041

[Kalle Valo]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> writes:

> On Thursday 19 March 2015, Michal Kazior wrote:
>> On 19 March 2015 at 13:17, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I just got a Lenovo Yoga 3 11" Laptop that came with a NFA345 wifi module that
>> > is allegedly using a qca6164 chip. The Windows driver calls it a 61x4 version 20
>> > device and the PCI ID is 168c:0041, which is different from the device ID
>> > that was just added to ath10k as QCA6174_2_1_DEVICE_ID (168c:003e).
>> >
>> > Does anyone have more information about this device and about how hard it would
>> > be to add support to the driver? Is there a chance that it might just work by
>> > adding the IDs or is it something rather different?
>> 
>> "version 20 device" strongly suggests this is a hw2.1 device.
>> Currently there's only ath10k firmware for hw3.0 chips available. You
>> can look through ath10k mailing list for discussions on qca6174 hw2.1
>> (qca6164 is basically 1x1 instead of 2x2 from what I understand).
>> 
>> If not for the firmware confusion adding support to the driver is
>> probably as trivial as just adding the new pci device id to the
>> supported list.
>
> Ok, I see. I still have Windows on the machine, so I can probably
> manage to extract the blob and also build a patched kernel once I'm
> able to install a working environment on the laptop.

I'm internally trying to sort out the firmware problem but that will
probably take some time. I or Michal will send mail once we have
something newsworthy.

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Kalle Valo