QCA9880/9890 rfkill

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Wed Sep 23 13:25:11 PDT 2015


iirc otp.bin is the image used when you don't have one; it should be
coming out of OTP or on-board flash.


-a


On 23 September 2015 at 12:32, William Riba <wriba at wriba.com> wrote:
> Hi Adrian - thank you for the quick response. I assume you're referring the otp.bin firmware file? Is there a mapping of the OTP to EEPROM settings available? That would be an easy fix if I can make a modification there to activate RFKILL.
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> -bill
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: adrian.chadd at gmail.com [mailto:adrian.chadd at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Chadd
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 1:58 PM
> To: William Riba
> Cc: ath10k at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: QCA9880/9890 rfkill
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> Hi,
>
> The GPIO line needs to be hooked in via the relevant EEPROM/OTP setting so the firmware programs things in correctly.
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> Go dump the OTP and see what the rfkill firmware line is.
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> -adrian
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> On 23 September 2015 at 11:55, William Riba <wriba at wriba.com> wrote:
>> Does anybody know whether rfkill in its hard block flavor is supported
>> in any QCA9880/9890 based device and/or firmware load? While vendors
>> refer to the WiFi disable/GPIO line in their reference schematics, it
>> is not functional.  What I see after testing multiple cards is if the
>> line is asserted during operation, there seems to be no effect. If it
>> is asserted at boot-up, the device does not enumerate on the PCI bus.
>>
>> If Qualcomm does not intend to support this functionality anymore it
>> would be nice to know. Hard kills are a regulatory requirement for
>> certain applications. While we would like to use a QCA9890 in a new
>> application, there's no way it could make it through qualifications
>> with its current operation.  Any additional information on this would be welcome. Thanks.
>>
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